Sentences with phrase «architectural shapes of»

It is almost as if Mawer had the vibrant planes of Palermo's structures, or layered architectural shapes of Butler's canvases, or the three - dimensional constructivist landscapes by Dudek in his mind's eye as he wrote.
A range of individual features provide added appeal to the clean, architectural shapes of the Evoque's interior.
«If I had put up chintz wallpaper, you wouldn't notice the architectural shape of a birdcage or the patina of a wooden milking stool,» she explains.

Not exact matches

When Joe Massaro bought a heart - shaped island, he had no idea he was also purchasing the architectural plans of a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright himself.
They may be simple square or round towers, as in the Levant; or elaborate architectural designs as in Egypt; or the slender, pencil - shaped minarets of Turkey; in Iraq and Iran the minarets in Shi'a mosques are often beautifully decorated with colorful ceramic tiles; in Indonesia they stand as separate towers, or in the villages may even be a chair in a high tree; and in China the government did not permit the building of minarets.
That way, those who see it as an interesting architectural shape can see it that way, and those who want to see it through fairy - colored glasses can see it as a cross, an ankh, a pink unicorn's toenail, or a giant squiggle of pasta for all it matters.
These trident - shaped exterior columns are set against a distracting architectural background consisting of a skewed diagonal arrangement of white steel beams bolted to one another and then pinned to the steel - mail grid to which the pavilion's exterior glass cladding is attached.
The normal architectural conception of space as a plastic element that must be shaped is completely absent here.
Architectural firm Lohan and Associates will present its design for an 80,000 - square - foot L - shaped facility to be built in the northwest corner of Wilder Park.
Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, started investigating this «architecture of life» over thirty - five years ago, and discovered that Nature uses an architectural principle known as «tensegrity» (short for «tensional integrity») to stabilize the shapes of living cells and to determine how they respond to mechanical forces.
I also prefer clothes that have something interesting in terms of print or an architectural shape.
I love the splash of color it provides as well as the combination of round and triangle shapes that increase the architectural feel of the outfit.
With its finial - shaped bases, each piece of our Jackson Collection is reminiscent of an architectural find.
He got rid of anything too overtly ladylike and welcomed a younger vibe whilst keeping the fabrics experimental and the shapes architectural.
Nicholas Kirkwood's collections focus on the curvature of the foot, with architectural designs and sculptured shapes creating elegant and refined silhouettes that fuse the traditional with the contemporary.
This dress also comes in a bright, happy green, but I prefer the more sedate, sophisticated black — love the shape of it, and it feels architectural and flattering for lots of stages in your pregnancy.
The beautiful shape of a corbel lends itself to creating architectural interest wherever it's place, like the corner of this window from Jennifer Rizzo.
The circular drum - like sculpture was intended to create an ever - changing architectural kaleidoscope of organic shapes and colours, but the 12 tracks do this on their own.
Framed, novelty and ornate beds, rather than posing a problem because of their rigid geometrical shapes, open up great architectural opportunities for dramatic and bold in - store displays.
Kurt Cyr, the Midcentury Modern architecture expert and food historian, offers a Palm Springs Mod Squad tour (which you can book year - round, not just during Modernism Week), a 90 - minute zip through historic neighborhoods to see groundbreaking architectural works by the six local architects who shaped the look of the city.
Standing out from the sea of high - rises in Melbourne's CBD, the hotels curved shape gives a hint at the architectural features and sense of open
You will discover the famous people and historical events that have shaped the identity of Fairmont Le Château Frontenac over the years, as well as its architectural development and facelift undergone in recent years..
The Ocean Bay Luxury Guesthouse is the perfect combination of architectural shapes, antique furniture combined with modern individually styled interiors.
Bahá» í Lotus Temple — As its name implies, this architectural masterpiece is fashioned into the shape of a lotus blossom.
The four star superior H10 Cubik is located in a building with geometric shapes that took its inspiration from the Brutalist architectural style of the mid-20th century.
The architectural shapes and the geometries of the place have remained unchanged.
Designed by one of Indonesia's foremost architectural firms, Andra Matin, and using striking traditional handcrafted red bricks, the multi-storey L - shaped block hugs a small tropical garden and swimming pool.
Lanzarote is an island whose architectural beauty has been shaped by one man in particular, Cesar Manrique, who was an old friend of the family of the proprietors of Casa el Morro.
The architectural use of shapes generates...
Jumeirah Beach Hotel's striking architectural form was designed to reflect the shape of a breaking wave, and at just a short walk along the beach sits Madinat Jumeirah — a self - contained sanctuary of Arabian style.
The French fine art photographer has a love of architectural details and abstract angles, picking out the interesting colours, patterns and shapes of his home country's buildings and infrastructure.
Nearby is a gorgeous late Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1951 that is semi-figurative; a Franz Kline black and white calligraphic abstraction, Untitled from 1953; an architectural collage of rectangular shapes by Conrad Marca - Relli from 1965; and, from 1976, the Larry Rivers pop - historical Big B Signs Up, a lithograph of two hands clasping a quill pen created by Rivers to mark the U.S. Bicentennial and honor Benjamin Franklin's signing the Declaration of Independence.
Using simple geometric shapes Kusanagi subtly implies the windows and architectural planes that create the familiar geography of urban landscapes.
Since Ritchie exhibited «The Universal Adversary» at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 2006, his work has been included in numerous exhibitions including: the Venice Architecture Biennale; the Seville Biennale; the Havana Bienal; «Matthew Ritchie, The Iron City,» St. Louis Art Museum; «Wunderkammern» Museum of Modern Art, New York; «The Guggenheim Collection,» Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; «Not For Sale» PS1, New York; «Confines,» IVAM, Valencia, Spain; «The Shapes of Space,» Guggenheim Museum, New York; «Between Art and Life,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; «The Kaleidoscopic Eye,» Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; «In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; «Experimental Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum; «The Last Scattering, Phase Two,» London, «To the Milky Way by Bicycle,» Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany; «The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art,» Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
The gallery environment will be based on shapes created by the overlapping of floor plans from her childhood home in Pico - Union, her father's house in Guadalajara, her live / work studio in Lincoln Heights, and other architectural references of personal significance.
«Donovan has morphed the immediate tactility of these seemingly animate metal coils into massive, undulating shapes that rise up from the floor, projecting silver tentacles that reach into all directions, or meander up and across a wall and ceiling like ivy gone wild on a fence, in sinuous arrangements that claim and redefine the architectural spaces that host them.»
has made him perhaps the most celebrated architectural photographer of the 20th Century; his pictures... played a major role in shaping the public's perception of what modern architecture is about.»
He is working his way around and over the architectural features of the room with a flowing geometric grid of flickering, diamond - shaped marks.
This dialogue between old and new is reinforced by her technique of creating geometric shapes and images from old newspaper and magazine cuttings, frequently featuring Soviet architectural structures.
Standing in the center of it, one gets an appreciation for Kelly's attention to the subtleties of color, shape, and architectural space, for an art that (to paraphrase the artist himself) meets the eye directly.
The conversation will center around notions of home, and try to ask questions about how and which architectural values should shape our future.
His architectural portraits reflect the mastery of marble and stone cutting along with the scale and the theatricality that shape the way human drama plays out in these spaces.
Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.
Using a research - based approach, Allied Works distills the elemental principles that drive each of their projects and transform these into material, shape, and structure — architectural designs that engage public imagination and amplify a city's cultural legacy.
The materials of alabaster, brass and semi-precious stone, where shaped and assembled to create an image representative of a beacon, or buoy, in sight over an architectural vista.
You have created a myriad of different modes of display for your ceramic sculptures — traditional plinths of different shapes and sizes, floor - based displays and purpose - built tables, each of them responding to their architectural surroundings and producing a different texture and atmosphere to the exhibition.
The irregular shapes of these paintings were determined by the architectural space of the Japanese museum.
In each of these areas, the galleries share similar architectural bones that shape the ambience of looking at art.
A full wall of softly defined abstract images on separate canvases shaped one wall of the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles / OMO art space — rectangular and square the images remind the viewer of architectural constructs.
Moving along to Age of Empires — Zheng Guogu's elaborate transposition of the famed getaway of literati from a repressive imperial court to a courtyard - landscape inside a vast architectural complex that he shaped with his Yangjiang Group into an imagined paradise — well, I just gave up and enjoyed the greenery.
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