Sentences with phrase «architectural elements for»

At a time when the economy boomed and industries began mass producing architectural elements for affordable prices, home owners became fascinated with a variety of styles that fell under the umbrella term «Victorian.»

I had been looking for one to put behind our dining room table as an architectural element for the past 2 months, but I hadn't been able to find one with either the right price tag, or the right look.

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Rhodes and his start - up team had plenty of experience in masonry and construction, but they lacked expertise in overseas business development, which would be critical for the new business in recovering architectural elements from abroad.

Both Shortt and Guay say the decision was ultimately an easy one, given Chicago's rich history of crime and corruption, its suitability for gameplay elements (the waterways and bridges will come into play) and its architectural beauty.

In a certain way, Hope Church expresses some of the architectural elements of its neighbors — you might mistake it for a manufacturing facility or a warehouse.

Punctuated by stunning architectural elements including grand chandeliers, lofty windows and broad river - view terraces, our event venues go beyond the ordinary while embracing the unique personality and charm New Orleans is known for.

The restaurants feature design - forward finishes and architectural elements and a custom, curated playlist that changes monthly; many locations feature display kitchens, original artwork, and patios designed for social lounging.

Swiss robotics maker ABB, Ltd., fashions architectural elements such as metal sheets, for example.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Encouraging Solar Development through Community Association Policies and Processes — This guide, written for association boards of directors and architectural review committees, discusses the advantages of solar energy and examines the elements of state solar rights provisions designed to protect homeowner access to these benefits.

We loved the touches of subtle architectural digitized lace at Jonathan Simkhai, while Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy opted for delicate Gothic glamour with boudoir elements, and at sister - duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Rodarte, velvet and embroidery combined to create an embellished silhouette.

wax painting The resource includes: Examples of architectural artists Examples of a student work collages of architecture Resource sheets of architectural photographs of churches to use for studies Resource sheets of different buildings ornamentations to use in collage Learning Objectives To develop a Classical Greek and Roman element in one's work of art at KS3, KS 4 - GCSE Art and A-level Art To study various examples of how artists have used these classical architectural elements in their works of Art A look at various contemporary artists and how they have used the Classical elements and architectural features To develop a collage combining photographs, painting and pen work.

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins just officially launched the «BlackBerry 10 Platform,» or everything that makes up the development stack for BB10, including many architectural elements of the PlayBook OS.

For this event, participating architectural design firms built and donated creative outdoor shelters to provide cats with refuge from the harsh elements.

The architectural style reflects the elements of Feng Shui to create a sense of well - being, balance and stunning aesthetics for the enhancement of any mood.

For the High Line, Ms. Sze has created an architectural habitat, as she has described it, consisting of a network of metal elements and wooden constructions.

The architectural firm Deborah Berke Partners has reimagined the historic Gray & Dudley Building, a former wholesale hardware company, for 21c Nashville, preserving the building's historic elements, while creating a versatile platform for exhibiting contemporary art.

Moby - Dick was his muse for a series of three dimensional works he created in the 1980s in which waveforms, architectural elements and Platonic solids play a prominent role.

The artworks are made from materials as diverse as bamboo stalks, copper tubes, glass shards and a shopping cart; the show's catalog also documents the artist's designs for gates, fountains, stained - glass windows and other architectural elements, some of which have been destroyed.

Finding chaos, flux and structure within a composition, elements of representation are combined with architectural abstraction to create a visual a passageway for self - reflection.

Already in the museum's cloakroom, the surprising elements that have been added to the existing architectural features will prepare the visitor for an exhibition that is also an immersive theatrical / filmic experience.

Buren has long engaged in creating large - scale site - specific works, conceiving and executing these works in response to their specific architectural and institutional setting and using these elements as cues for reimagining the space.

The window as a framing device is an integral motif for Genzken, not just as a voyeuristic element as with Windscreen 2 (2008)-- where a cracked car windscreen protrudes from the gallery wall, lending the audience a fractured view of a framed image of an anonymous nude male and female embracing — but as an architectural framework.

In Dauerwelle — a new work commissioned for the gallery's tiny architectural element of a cube recessed into a wall — the singer's pitch black Cleopatra - coif wig rotates in mid-air, preserved like a relic, endlessly hovering in space like the spectre of a violent beheading.

He is also planning donations of oversize works to several museums, including «Other Voices for a Second Slight,» Vito Acconci's 1974 three - room installation combining speech with lighting effects, architectural elements and photographic collage.

Absent or present, the human figure is a constant element in his work, whether in the form of bodies in action, satirical caricatures, or animistic sculptures; as the residue of a private ritual; or as architectural space left uninhabited for the viewer to occupy.

Reinterpreting Malevič, Tatlin, El Lisitzky and other key exponents of these movements allowed Pardi to take the still vital elements of these artistic directions and become one of the most active and qualified representatives of the history of contemporary painting and sculpture.This extensive retrospective illustrates the development of Pardi's explorations at every phase, from the first depictions of architectural interiors and exteriors of the 1960s, such as the Environments and Hanging Gardens, to subsequent works from the 1970s, which he named Architectures.The series Diagonals are from the early 1980s and consist of straight lines whose tight rhythm oscillates between black and white to a search for new montages and movements.

Furthering their notion of «sculptural theaters» — installations built as containers for specific movies, whose architectural, audiovisual, and sculptural elements expand onscreen content into environmental panoramas — the artists have transformed Andrea Rosen Gallery into a network of halls and chambers that plot a path for visitors through a sequence of new movies and ambient spaces.

Grace Schwindt uses theatrical sets for video and performance works with minimal architectural elements and props to mark a location, for example, a family home.

There, he co-founded The Art Queen, a gallery and arts center, and he also designed and built a house that has received significant recognition for its blend of architectural and sculptural elements.

Its contemporary and rustic ranch architectural elements provide the backdrop for rotating exhibitions throughout the year.

Stella's proclivity for constantly challenging himself continued in the mid-1980s, when the increasingly deep relief of his paintings gave way to full three - dimensionality, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, French curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements.

She exchanged her paintbrush for a spray gun and air compressor and moved off the canvas to paint, and wildly transform, architectural elements: walls, ceilings, floors, stairways, and windows.

The architectural elements allow for balanced to the abstracted strokes and colorful palette.

Shaped by the lines and proportions of the dancers, the installation repeats and draws out the Madlener House's existing architectural elements that relate closely to the body — such as thresholds and windows — creating an acute awareness of the body moving through space for both dancers and spectators alike.

Slight in scale, approximately the size of a book, each piece offers a different tableau: minimalist forms, architectural elements, flattened perspectives, proposals for land art, or Martian carvings.

Among the exhibition's more than 180 objects are examples of the leaded - glass windows and lamps for which he is best known as well as blown - glass vessels and decorative objects such as mosaics, jewelry, bronzes, paintings, watercolors, architectural elements, and silver.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

For this project, architectural collective Assemble and artist Simon Terrill have used archival materials, drawings and photographs from RIBA's Collections to create an interactive installation that raises questions over design for play, from both a historic and contemporary perspective, with a focus on the element of riFor this project, architectural collective Assemble and artist Simon Terrill have used archival materials, drawings and photographs from RIBA's Collections to create an interactive installation that raises questions over design for play, from both a historic and contemporary perspective, with a focus on the element of rifor play, from both a historic and contemporary perspective, with a focus on the element of risk.

New installation by Amanda Ross - Ho encompasses architectural elements, large - scale paintings, fabricated objects, textiles, and photographs created specially for the location.

This is clearly evident in several sculptures in this exhibition, including Steel Cloud (for Po Chu Yi), a reference to the Tang Dynasty poet also known as Bai Juyi, or in Titanium Landscape, which features an architectural element resembling a Chinese moon gate, or in a recent Untitled (2013) sculpture in which a small gong is suspended that can be struck with a rubber mallet, delighting the viewer with its gentle and sonorous tone.

Installation artists Christo and Jeanne - Claude, who in the 1970s, and later, in their preparatory drawings for projects often involving large architectural structures, such as Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin (1971 - 95), also sought the immediacy of incorporating collaged elements.

This room, entitled White model for a big still life, consisting of various sculptural and architectural elements, blurs the lines between environment, architecture, painting and installation by creating a monochrome space that functions, in a sense, like the artist's own creative mindscape.

For the past two winters, as the Walker's 2001 Visual Arts artist - in - residence, she has focused on two specific architectural elements in and around the Twin Cities: ice - fishing houses and skyways.

He was known then for painting «abstracted architectural interiors where towers, gabled roofs, and arched doorways combine with geometric solids and intersecting planes to form a framework in which various figurative elements are situated.»

Erin O'Keefe invents an unbound architectural language by arranging a network of objects and photographic elements for the camera, rendering unreliable spatial relationships into a single plane.

Intrigued by SBP's location inside an old Firehouse Station, The Rescue at the Firehouse points towards preexisting architectural elements, such as the fire poles, as anchors for the installation.

Arnold Topp was a German painter known for his colorful, cubist paintings, which often contain figurative, scenic and architectural elements.

De Chirico often painted human bodies as though they were assembled from architectural elements, wearing parts of the city like garments: in The Painter's Family (1926), for example, a neoclassical arch supports the heart while skyscrapers burst forth from the solar plexus.

This ambivalence I have towards the nature of the term «abstract» also applies to my use of certain architectural elements, sometimes on a very large scale, in an effort to compress fragments of real architectural space onto a relatively frontal idea, vis à vis Mark Rothko for instance.

This sculpture comprises 4 elements, suggesting a tree, an animal, a portal and an architectural form (it was for the architectural dimension of his work that Dubuffet earned the American Institute of Architects medal, the only honour that he did not turn down during his lifetime).