This ornate five-domed architectural extravaganza is sited on a 400-metre cliff overlooking Foros.

As many were located in urban centers, there have been subsequent campaigns to save, restore and preserve the architectural extravaganzas for other uses, especially the performing arts.

From the front, it was a fretted, carved, painted, ornate, baroque architectural extravaganza.

The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.

"This isn't a huge architectural extravaganza," he said.

Constructed in 1848 and demolished by fire ten years later, this architectural extravaganza "sprouted bulbous domes and horseshoe arches".

The finest architects of the day submitted plans to transform the older family house into a modern architectural extravaganza.

The Excalibur, however, is due to be one-upped by the 5,007-room MGM Grand, an architectural extravaganza from the billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.

There are sumptuous coffee-table productions from famous restaurants, featuring impossibly complex recipes and gauzy photographs of the resultant architectural extravaganzas.

With skylights and floor-to-ceiling glass walls, Waterfront is an architectural extravaganza.