Back when this city was breathless with development, Westchester County officials planned the grandest architectural gesture of them all.

Such an architectural gesture is not simply a whim of the home builder, for the entrance hall has a long pedigree.

There is one formal architectural gesture in the Nixon Library.

This slow-motion but kinetic architectural gesture unmistakably bears the Calatrava signature.

Better that, he said, than overweening architectural gestures.

"They were looking for a bold new architectural gesture."

The seven Avignon popes blew a lot of money on grand architectural gestures.

The design's major architectural gesture is a low, glass-and-concrete roof structure that would cap off a renovated Forum mall.

His son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., was more comfortable with grand architectural gestures, but even for him, a sense of duty always came first.

That is, he said, the design will not employ architectural gestures solely to call attention to itself.