Investment in ambitious new buildings, parks and civic engineering pole-vaulted.

St Lukes's was an ambitious building, costing £40,000 and designed to accommodate 2,500 people.

They may well have been the most ambitious buildings of their kind up to that time in America, cleverly combining architectural elements from several different vernaculars.

As it is, the awards have been so plentifully bestowed that virtually every architecturally ambitious building in the country seems to have won one.

But the more ambitious buildings in the group are only theoretical at this time.

The historic district may have the most "significant" homes in the area, but they are overwhelmed, numerically, by thousands of less ambitious buildings.

It is an ambitious building, 180 feet long and ashlar faced with a tower at the west end.

The exterior was embellished with classical ornament in the loose way of ambitious Jacobean buildings.

It is an ambitious building in the neo-Transitional style and the tall spire is conspicuous from the high ground surrounding the town.

Result: Simon proposed "The Wave", an ambitious building with an "organic" design.