Sentences with phrase «as cinderblock»

The artist employs unexpected media such as cinderblock, fired stoneware, clothing, resin, ear buds, mirror and fiberglass to question the nature of the relationship between people and things.

We found out that due to faulty drainage the foundation had to be repaired (ramjack) as well as cinderblocks.

Not exact matches

My experience as a pastor fades in comparison to such hardships endured by heroic men and women who have nothing but stones and fallen cinderblocks to hammer into gravel for concrete.

The apartment was as awful as you can imagine: a single - story cinderblock building with a rotted roof.

His second day on the job as Minneapolis Public Schools» new top chef, Bertrand Weber stood before an audience made up of district brass who would probably sooner eat the contents of their sock drawers than anything produced in this cinderblock hell and sweetly informed them that they would soon be thinking of it as the Culinary Center.

They're made out of traditional iron - reinforced concrete beams and columns, but the cinderblocks in the walls are replaced with «eco-bricks» - plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic waste material such as chip packets - that are sandwiched in between chicken wire and covered in cement.

As a side note, I'm talking about the really basic car wash that is cinderblocks, a pressure washer, and coin operated.

The major projects that Ward - Wiseman Animal Haven is currently involved with include a cooperative effort again with the City of Collinsville and Mayor Stan Sallee to build an Animal Control Officer (ACO) City Building with 11 kennels to replace the cinderblock building currently in use as an isolation unit, and offices for the City ACO.

In a small blue - grey cinderblock building on County Road 561, 6,104 killings have occurred in the past 12 months and more will die today.That doesn't shock Frankie Thorp — she's used to seeing it happen.However, as director of Lake County Animal Control, she said she never will stop being upset about having to kill stray dogs and cats when owners don't accept responsibility for their pets.

When walking through a property, pay attention to the little things — like the finishing touches on a bathroom countertop or the craftsmanship of a bedroom door — as much as the big things — like the cinderblock construction of the home and the private, luxury pool on the beach.

The walls that once pressed so hard now lend support — like the steel plates and cinderblocks that Carl Andre once laid for me on the floor, like the churches that once functioned simultaneously as art, symbolism, and a civic space.

Carl Andre with his steel plates and cinderblocks stand as only one path among many in a gallery's interior.

Finding beauty in the mundane such as concrete, cinderblocks, and other elements of urban decay, he uses a range of techniques and processes to create his work, some analog and some digital such as 3D scanning and printing.

The Suburban compound — a duo of cinderblock huts outside the Grabner - Killam residence — could be understood as an anti-Chelsea, a space by and for artists that attempts to circumvent commercial and institutional means of distributing art.

With the car's cinderblock base representing stasis, and its coating of tire treads suggesting perpetual movement, Ward's Smart Tree holds up a mirror to the flux surrounding the High Line itself and reminds viewers of the High Line's history as a major transportation artery in Manhattan.

Or, from another perspective, it is as though there is some basic picture — any old image — that represents a kind of rough - and - ready cinderblock consciousness of something; it is covered over by contradictory yet complementary veneers, but nothing has been substantially altered in the process.

No basement in this house, but there is a MASSIVE (cinderblock - walled) storage unit / workshop underneath the house (as well as parking for 2 cars).