"Not everyone can, or is willing to, look at renderings and read architectural symbols, and visualize what it will all look like," he said.

This spherical project, though never built, has long been a supreme architectural symbol of the Enlightenment, a tribute to the 18th-century faith in science, geometry, and reason.

Beaumont Tower became the new architectural symbol of Michigan State College.

The minaret is an architectural symbol of Islam.

The Parthenon is still the architectural symbol of the classical world.

This building would become an architectural and educational symbol for the university.

Instead it became an architectural symbol of the household and a ceremonial focus for its daily life, particularly meals.

Controversy surrounded its construction and, love it or loathe it, it's the architectural symbol of the country.

The aristocratic classical revival styles were particularly reviled by many as the architectural symbol of a now-discredited and outmoded social system.

There are 10 openings, each guarded by architectural symbols.