Sentences with phrase «austere buildings»

It may sound cynical, but the simple word «Estate», was an experience that made me land on my feet instantly, and stood in shrill contrast compared to all the impressively austere buildings that are associated with British nobility, and could in some cases be replaced by a conventional impression of any «Ghetto».

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Now he halts for a moment, even the two austere guides are touched by his suffering: look, there a side path branches off; «good - by, thou wish of my youth, thou friendly place, where I had hoped to be able to build and to dwell with my wish!»

The building's elegantly restrained colonial architecture, the gray sky, the stately camera movement and music all convey an austere gravity, which, together with Schrader's use of Academy ratio (inspired, he has said, by Pawel Pawlikowski's «Ida»), point us back not only to an earlier era of American religion but also to such European cinema models as Bergman's «Winter Light» and Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest.»

Veteran director Robert Wise, still riding on the box - office bonanza of «The Sound of Music», approaches it all with an austere documentary rigour that at first seems to underplay the drama, but builds an almost unbearable degree of claustrophobic anxiety.

The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

In reaction to the «glass boxes» issue, some younger American architects such as Michael Graves (1945 ---RRB- have rejected the austere, boxy look in favor of postmodern buildings, such as those by Philip C. Johnson (1906 — 2005) with striking contours and bold decoration that alludes to historical styles of architecture.

The inland landscapes are forests, gentle hills and austere medieval cities built in gray stones.

Trained as a sculptor, Terada first builds diminutive domestic sets, and photographs them to achieve these austere environments.

The building, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1947, was completed in 1963; by then its austere, rather Gothic - Deco facade was well out of architectural fashion.

Nelson built a series of uncharacteristically austere white environments that were scenes of total destruction by some nameless, wild beast — walls gnawed, furniture broken and chewed, floors covered in wreckage.

The movement developed in three stages: Proto - Cubism (Picasso's & Braque's early phase, containing the only «cubes» to be seen); Analytical Cubism, an austere style which disassembled 3 - D views into a series of overlapping planes; finally, Synthetic Cubism, a lighter more colourful style which «built - up» images sometimes using various «found» materials.

It is a medium - sized South - American town, with a colonial center and tall, austere modernist buildings.

Projects like the austere corrugated - metal Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1972), which the architect Bill Stern called «as honest a building as I've ever seen,» and the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis (1973), hung from curving cables like a suspension bridge, established him as an innovative interpreter of the high Modernist style.

Yet many academics and other fans of Brutalist architecture championed the rather austere nature of the building and it certainly opened to much fanfare in 1966, with a celebrity A-list attending the ribbon - cutting including board member Jacqueline Kennedy.

«One of London's most important spaces for displaying contemporary art, The Hayward is housed in an austere 1968 building that is both equally loved and derided by the majority of Londoners.

First realized seven years ago in New York City, this re-installation of Chocolate Factory in Paris will build upon its previous installation, using the shift in context from the white cube and austere setting of the Maccarone gallery to the ornate and Baroque Salle Guillaume Dupré to transform and evolve the project.

The gray - green color is utterly inoffensive, and the building is an austere block.

Austere in appearance — it originally served as a bar for workers employed at a geothermal power station — the concrete building has been expanded with a new wing made up of locally salvaged driftwood (and lava!)

But 20th century buildings suddenly became very plain, very austere, very functional — and many people started to hate architecture and architects.