Sentences with phrase «build cultural icons»

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If there ever was a time for Canada to wrap its arms around its cultural icons and support them — to leverage them to help build a brand for a nation — it's now, and I mean right now.

These buildings serve a dual role as cultural icon.

The officially landmarked building is recognized as an American cultural icon and renowned for those who have lived and created there, including Sir Arthur Clarke, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Miller, Joni Mitchell, Dee Dee Ramone, Larry Rivers, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Milos Forman, Janis Joplin, Donald Sutherland, Patti Smith, Philip Taaffe, Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Eugene O'Neill, Jane Fonda, Larry Rivers, Leonard Cohen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Waits, Courtney Love, Sam Shepard, Charles Bukowski, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns, Viva, Quentin Crisp, Jimi Hendrix and many others (some of whom will appear in this film).

Deep inside a maze of spaces in a scaffolded building at the city's southern embankment, Khaled Hafez of Cairo showed Mirror Sonata for a Temple, his colourful video of millennia of cultural icons in a parade on the screen — satirically muscled men, bulls from Mesopotamian history, elegantly decorated architecture.

Many of their buildings have become «icons» and cultural catalysts that reflect their vision of where the field is headed, says architect Ellen Dunham - Jones, director of the architecture program at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.