Sentences with phrase «building a landscape around»

«Looking around at our titanically messy desks we realised we were building a landscape around us.
l pull from the language of architecture and use formal gestures of stacking, overlapping, layering and erasing and saddle them with the task of depicting our individual exploitations of the built landscape around us.

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To reach them, these days, you walk around a chain - link construction enclosure, duck beneath branches in a landscaped area and scramble up onto a low ledge of the aquarium's building.
Your kid will admire the landscapes and buildings found everywhere around the globe.
You can spend the day exploring the lovely landscape around Stoney Lake, including a drive up to the Gut Conservation Area (one of the most stunning areas for fall colours), before returning to eat a harvest - themed tasting menu built around local produce.
An ecosystem built around large palm trees shifted to a landscape dominated by grasses, disrupting the natives ability to farm and significantly hobbling their ability to survive on the island.
Built exclusively around Baldwin's words, Peck's I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO delves into the complex legacy of three lives (and deaths) that permanently marked the American social and political landscape.
Wu built visuals around a 2018 Acura NSX traveling through massive landscape time - lapses shot in Death Valley.
One of my favorites, Battle Royale Island by BloodNoskie, is a surreal and sparse pink landscape built around a floating cornucopia of ammunition and a circle of towering goddess statues.
Eden's focus on the importance of outdoor learning and play can be seen throughout the work of the project as well as through the schools education team, with the ever - popular den building activities that take place in the project's arena during the summer and the landscaping and design of the play areas and gardens around the site.
This PowerPoint contains five seperate pieces of Art work formed around building an understanding of the Landscape and different parts of the landscape, as well as various Art techniques including: drawing, colouring and collage.
Opened in September 2012 ahead of schedule, The design of the academy interlinks three phases of learning: lower, middle and upper, in a single circular building around a naturally landscaped garden.
The Center on the Developing Child's diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and development) platform for science - based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and even demands change.
But the «common eLearning man» became aware of the complications around development and costs for building eLearning programs with the digital landscape still in early development.
To learn the answer, we interviewed leading educational researchers around the world, assessed the landscape of academic research and educational - achievement data, and built an economic model that allowed us to examine the relationships among educational achievement (represented by standardized test scores), the earnings potential of workers, and GDP.
In this series, we explore the current landscape around POBF policies and what states can do to build more equitable policies.
In The Search, this manifests as an increasing sense of unreality that builds as Walker «tracks» his charge around what seems to be a fictional America, a bizarre landscape of places with names like Despond, Friendship, and Nemesis.
Outside was a huge, in - ground pool with massive rocks built up around it (I KNOW they paid more for their landscaping than I did for my house.)
Here, was the playground of the truly super-rich, a family so wealthy, they built huge follies around the landscape just to make the views from their window better.
One of the oldest existing Dutch palaces outside Holland, this quaint mansion, built in 1744, by Dutch traders, was later extended and lush green gardens were landscaped around it.
Obtaining inspiration from the encompassing landscape, the flower works of art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh as well as the upturned boats around the seashore, Enric Miralles created a design which he proclaimed as a building «growing out of the land».
The hotel is built over a large green landscape of around 45.000 m2 and a long beach of around 400m beach front with it private jetty.
This luxurious resort features five 4 - story buildings, two of which are Gulf front and the remaining three set around a family - friendly and children - pleasing lagoon pool, with graceful palms, tropical flowers, and 6 cascading waterfalls set amongst lush landscaping.
Set right on the beach, with lush landscaping around the main buildings, which are thatched in Mayan style, four swimming pools are surrounded by luxurious sun - beds.
Surrounded by the stunning Southern Alps and beautifully rugged New Zealand landscape, Aro Hā is custom built to stimulate body and mind, the intention to create connectivity with yourself, your environment and those around you.
CODE: 5141110002 The Chachapoyas and their Royal Paths (03 Days / 02 Nights) from USD $ 173 This short, but very dynamic program allows you to have access to typical villages, observing flora and fauna, visiting interesting archaeological compounds, hamlets, valleys and landscapes around the Utcubamba River, all the way to the Fortress of Kuélap; a majestic architectural work built by the Chachapoyas, on top of a high mountain.
On the surface, one could assume we have proudly chosen this slogan to reflect the aesthetically eye - pleasing and traditional architecture of our buildings and Villas or the lush landscape and flora that envelops our pools and buildings or the wondrous beauty of the entire country of Belize and all around us in Placencia.
The report also outlines a baseline scenario, built around these trends, to size the business potential for passenger rail in 2020, and concludes with comments on how passenger rail operators can take advantage of the trends transforming the industry landscape, and position themselves to benefit from opportunities that currently lie beyond their borders.
Step into the rooms and facilities built around tropical landscaping and designed with sustainability in mind as part of your diving holidays.
Built around the the villas complex, Gahana Bali Villa offer a luxury accommodation with its elegant facilities, etnic furnitures, finest linen, extra large bathroom with complete amenities, private pool, green landscape, spacious living room with dining fa...
The landscape around the rustic villages enchants its visitors with striking stone - built windmills, and with their traditional Canarian shops, we suggest you come here to indulge in some delicious crepes, for a pair of famous Spanish shoes or to visit the little art galleries or handcrafted jewellery, surf and clothes shops.
There's a moment early on when you're climbing up the side of a building and Neo-Paris unfolds before your eyes, a gaudy city of cyberpunk metal and neon wrapped around a famous urban landscape that's enormously familiar.
You'll find trees, shrubbery, houses and buildings dotting the landscape; cars all around; and some rocks for cover.
As games have become more refined, detailed and precise, we can almost infinitely clamber around ancient cities as in the Assassin's Creed series, tear through gorgeous jungle in Far Cry, terraform and build upon cubist landscapes in Minecraft, and pull a horde of friends together for adventuring to your heart's content in any MMORPG you care to mention.
Hidden around the island are weapons and items, including crossbows, rifles and grenade launchers, and players must arm themselves while exploring the landscape and buildings.
Hotaling's most recent series of paintings features plein - air landscapes of the environment around his hometown, many of which are unmarred by human development — that is, they have few buildings or distinctive manmade barriers.
Watin looks at urban landscapes marked by time and gather all the elements in order to build an atmosphere, a universe around these places.
As Zhang says, he is creating a «societal landscape,» one where, whether he is manipulating an image of a building in Chelsea or one half way around the world in China, his aim is not to efface but to meld disparate concepts and histories, disparate types of visual information, and make yet a third thing — a multifaceted, multi-media, object for contemplation.
As such, the body does not follow a narrative, but rather activates the work to generate a displacement towards the exterior, revealing the height, distance and tension between the human scale and the dimensions of the building, while directing our attention to the landscape around the museum.
Through the tropes of traditional painting — portraiture, landscape, and other narrative modes — he builds a conversation around visibility and invisibility.»
Many of the objects referenced have conveyed a sense of agency or empowerment, and compelled me throughout my life to learn more about how humans have shaped the world around them into objects, buildings, landscapes, spaces and networks.
Staged in K11 Art Foundation's pop - up venue, a space previously used to show future building projects that continue to change the urban landscape around Hong Kong, HACK SPACE forms an alternative hacker narrative, weaving moments from the history of western hacker activity with artworks that rethink space through unconventional methodologies of making and thinking.
Artsy.net May 5, 2015 K. Sundberg Tom Green took cues from consumerism, politics, and the everyday around him to build Boschean, graphic landscapes of cavorting geometry.
Longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2013, Rejmer - Canovas takes her inspiration from the urban landscape, finding that the environment around her offers up the opportunity to observe the deterioration of buildings.
As an ostensibly secular country built around the supposedly rational ideology of democratic capitalism, a drive across its vast and varying landscape reveals a space steeped in its own mysticism, manifest in any form from the omnipresent evangelism of the bible belt to the rootless, new aged occultism of California.
Bearings looks at the way in which artists adapt their practice to engage with the changing landscape around them, echoing how building, exploration and cultivation alter our surroundings.
The exhibition curated by Sven Davis brings together over 100 artists to build work around the notion of architectural landscape.
We are stationary and have built our infrastructure and designed our economy around a current understanding of the landscape and the location of resources.
Peter Holmgren, who heads the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), built the two - day Global Landscapes Forum around it, and the United States, United Kingdom, and Norway launched the Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) to make it a reality.
Those visitors knocked soil into the pond as they trekked around newly built footpaths, inspired fresh deforestation and landscaping around the shore, and — as swimmers do — peed in the water.
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