Sentences with phrase «as a concrete block»

it seems you don't have the advantage of the concrete's thermal mass for heat and cooling retention as the concrete blocks are not insulated on just one side.

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«There's no assumption that there's some kind of blocking going on,» he said, which is all the more reason to put as much concrete, steel, and other radiation - absorbing building materials between you and a blast.

«Instead of constructing immoveable concrete buildings, we'll create lightweight block - like structures which can be moved around easily as we invest in new product areas,» David Radcliffe, Google's vice president of real estate, said in a blog post Friday.

The walls are of concrete block with a high content of fly ash, a waste product of coal - fired electric power generation that can be recycled as a replacement for portland cement.

First grade is a year to explore and introduce a number of different concrete building blocks of math, such as problem solving, operations and number sense.

Indispensable as they are, monitors aren't without flaws: Concrete walls can block the signals, and cordless phones and wireless systems can interfere with reception.

Mr Moon asked as he first shook hands with Kim across the ten centimetre high concrete block marking the Military Demarcation Line along the border.

«The blocks could last for 500 years, the same span as plastic, making the Nelplast product more durable and environmentally suitable over concrete paving blocks» he added.

After a bank manager refused Donald's mortgage application based on race, he built his family's house as money afforded, 10 to 20 concrete blocks at a time.

Most people are living as if there is a concrete wall blocking one from the other.

Whatever genius thought to pair S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99) with Mel Gibson deserves a goddamn metal of honor and with a name as suggestive as Dragged Across Concrete (which is sure to conjure a certain image for anyone who's had the pleasure of watching Brawl in Cell Block 99), this police brutality thriller sounds like Zahler won't be giving up the graphic violence any time soon.

For example, Gassner designed harder - looking Brutalist architecture (concrete blocks with sharp edges) and Spinners (flying police vehicles), as well as a seawall to prevent total flooding.

If you are looking for some primary place value resources, I hope this list of concrete models and drawings is useful: linking cubes, base ten blocks, hundreds grids, 10 x 10 dot arrays, tens and ones cards, counters and cups, bundles of sticks (such as straws or coffee stirrers).

2nd Grade kids will shade in parts of an object to show a specified fraction, and they will explore equivalent fractions using concrete materials such as pattern blocks.

In anticipation of an increase in abandoned animals that would likely occur as many pet owners would not or could not comply with the quarantine ordinance, the city doubled the number of double - deck indoor cages at the city pound by adding 32 double - deck concrete block cages under a tin shed roof to the west side of the pound.

Not only can ingesting concrete possibly block your dog's intestines, it can potentially bring upon a bevy of other very dangerous worries, such as bacterial infection and insecticide poisoning — anything could be covering that dirty outdoor concrete.

In fact the rates are surprisingly good as while the exterior is bog - standard, Southeast Asian - style concrete block and the vast but pretty vacant lobby also fails to raise expectations, the rooms themselves are well - appointed, comfortable, sparkly clean and very tastefully decorated.

Then, as the road after the road has winded down to sea level, you're greeted by a huge, newly constructed annex to KC Grande Resort where some of the rooms are either just a few metres from the main road or have views towards a concrete wall of the block in front.

As with many resorts it began life as dull concrete beach bungalows, but a new hotel block was added on the inland side of the road and in 2007 the old beachfront bungalows were replaced with a free - form pool and hotel rooms literally 20 metres from the seAs with many resorts it began life as dull concrete beach bungalows, but a new hotel block was added on the inland side of the road and in 2007 the old beachfront bungalows were replaced with a free - form pool and hotel rooms literally 20 metres from the seas dull concrete beach bungalows, but a new hotel block was added on the inland side of the road and in 2007 the old beachfront bungalows were replaced with a free - form pool and hotel rooms literally 20 metres from the sea.

Exploring around 40 large Japanese public housing blocks known as «danci» («group land»), visiting at dusk and early evening, Cody said he initially saw these buildings as «mountains of steel and concrete».

The exhibition traces all the stages of Pape's career, beginning with her square paintings, reliefs, and blocks, all done between 1954 and 1956, when Pape was a member of Grupo Frente from Rio de Janeiro, which also included Clark and Oiticica, and which initially followed the tenets of concrete art as outlined by van Doesburg.

LeWitt's construction serves as the focal point of an exhibition aptly titled «Sol LeWitt: Concrete Block Structure,» which also features his Wall Drawing 664 (1990).

From 1969, he constructed in industrial materials, as aluminum and steel, and later, during the 80's he was using cinder and concrete blocks.

Her first works, made during the 1980s, were constructions or spatial extensions of existing architecture such as Gallery inexistent, Antwerpen (1988), an installation created by stacking borrowed concrete blocks in a gallery space.

Ruby's spray painted blocks and wall hangings seem to reference the aesthetic of these 90's video game graphics that place the viewer in this familiar world where you're still a normal human, but, due to technological limitations, non-essential information, such as concrete walls, aren't highly rendered.

Intriguing pairings will encourage visitors to consider commonalities between seemingly disparate works, such as Giovanni de Vecchi's 16th - century drawing of a corpse alongside contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson's conceptual sculpture of negative space formed by glacial ice melted within a concrete block, The Presence of Absence (Nuuo Kangerlua, 24 September 2015 # 3).

A combination of acrylic and spray paint canvases, dyed interactive soft sculptures, and a concrete block plant installation, the show's multi-medium elements serve as a whimsical juxtaposition to the modernist architecture of the space.

Once dismissed as ugly, the concrete towers and blocks of the capital are enjoying something of a renaissance and artists, designers and photographers are amongst those who now celebrate them.

While at MoMA PS1 and Clocktower, Mount worked with international scope of curators, artists, and institutions, and on seminal exhibitions such as the first Greater New York in 2000; the retrospective of painter John Wesley, covering his entire career from 1961 - 2000; Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman; Body Works: Bruce Nauman, Valie Export, Gabriel Orozco, Joan Jonas, and Louis Bourgouis; Sol LeWitt: Concrete Block; Min Tanaka presents Subject: Heuristic Ecdysis, Santiago Sierra, Person remunerated for a period of 360 consecutive hours, 2000, among others.

Several months ago, she opened her latest permanent site - specific work, «Planar Pavilions,» a loose grid of 10 configurations of black - painted cinder - block walls of varying heights — some low enough to sit on, others as tall and imposing as linebackers — along a gentle slope, which calls to mind the crumbled foundations of a future civilization as well as the constellation of concrete boxes Donald Judd installed in the early 1980s on his own property in Marfa, Tex..

Bard combines contemporary media (bronze, plexiglass, slide projections) with concrete blocks, urban rubble and the cardboard boxes of the homeless to create installations that are as moving as they are disturbing.

Titled «Right Misplacement,» the artist admits to the awkwardness when her sculptural installations — often made of street junk such as cardboard, nylon net, and concrete blocks — intervene in the gallery's standard white cube, but goes on to affirm their insignificance through their production method and display.

Yilin lies with his leg trapped beneath a circular wall of concrete blocks, as a grown man on a child's bicycle wheels over the surface.

Constructed of large buff - colored concrete blocks, it looks as if it could have been built in Rome, Twombly's adopted city.

A supposedly eco-friendly Smart Car is raised here on concrete blocks and clad in treads from old tires, as a sapling grows through its sun roof — a clever play on park in both the automotive and green sense of the word.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

I worked on many large projects primarily in structural steel and precast concrete such as aircraft hangars, multi-storey apartment blocks, cinema complexes and more.

1 As work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block wallAs work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block wallas the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block walls.

I ponder as I pace the modernist concrete block and plywood room that is my office.

I wish I could say that the tide had turned in their favour; Instead, a large number of politicians are convinced still that we want everyone, as one Bloomberg correspondent noted, to live in «Soviet - style concrete - block high - rises and be forced to take state - run streetcars to their little jobs at the mill.»

But the most interesting factor is that we don't all have to live in «Soviet - style concrete - block high - rises and be forced to take state - run streetcars to their little jobs at the mill», as one Bloomberg correspondent described it.

Never use objects such as bricks or concrete blocks to «prop» or stabilize scaffolding.

Masonry workers, also known as masons, use bricks, concrete blocks, concrete, and natural and manmade stones to build walls, walkways, fences, and other masonry structures.

The truth is that a resume that begins with block of concrete information such as education or qualifications is considered too «in your face».

Managed all material needs, appointed the necessary manpower to complete jobs such as; underground plumbing, setting forms, concrete pour, block walls, and grading.

These concrete block homes are easy to sell, especially when they can be identified as a Sears Roebuck catalog design, according to Mary Strang, ABR ®, CRS ®, broker - owner of RE / MAX Hill Country Realty in Viroqua, Wis..

Concrete blocks stack up as end tables and sofa.

Too often, people immediately picture cell block or concrete gray, but as with most colors, gray can look sleek or bleak depending on how it's used.

The pods are delivered fully constructed and, as they need no foundations (they are mounted on four concrete blocks), take only around one hour to install.