Sentences with phrase «building towering sculptures»

One hundred and fifty miles from New York City, artist Richard Prince has been building towering sculptures on acres of rural land.

Often building towering sculptures out of unstable materials, interjected with malleable elements, the works are infused with a sense of subverted ambition, precariousness, irony, and humor.

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Sit and enjoy live music in the beautiful courtyard, surrounded by the towering pillars of the building, sculptures, and tranquil greenery.

Johnson designed some of America's greatest modern architectural landmarks, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art, New York's AT&T Building (now Sony Plaza), Houston's Transco (now Williams) Tower and Pennzoil Place, the Fort Worth Water Garden, and the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new building in Manhattan's meatpacking district on May 1, it's the big things everyone will notice first: the sweeping views west to the Hudson River; the romantic silhouettes of Manhattan's wooden water towers; the four outdoor terraces for presenting sculptures, performances and movie screenings; and the tiered profile of its steel - paneled facade, intentionally reminiscent of the Whitney's Modernist, granite - clad Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue, which had been the museum's home since 1966.

One of the highlights will be Amber Spire Tower, a nine - foot - tall, vertical sculpture comprised of hundreds of glass spire - shaped pieces built into a dramatic tower formaTower, a nine - foot - tall, vertical sculpture comprised of hundreds of glass spire - shaped pieces built into a dramatic tower formatower formation.

Sculpture Project Echo (2009), Pousttchi's series of twentyfour colour photographs created in the six months during which Echo was on view, is a much - layered portrayal of this black - and - white photo installation's powerful persistence among the iconic buildings that surrounded it, including the Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral), the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), the GDR - built Fernsehturm (Television Tower, which, at 368 metres, is still the tallest structure in Germany), and the uncovered foundations of the original Berlin City Palace.

The selection of sculptures chosen for the project represent a diverse list of names in terms of techniques, styles and artists» backgrounds: from an oversized «liquid» bronze tower by the Englishman Tony Cragg, which took four month of negotiations with the adjacent building to install, to Manolo Valdez's stately Spanish queen gazing at the sleek new Northwestern Mutual building across the street (one of the project's sponsors), to a bronze horse cast from twigs found in Montana woods by Deborah Butterfield.

Tower reimagined the steel framework of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's famed 860 - 880 Lake Shore Drive apartment buildings in Chicago as a twisted floor - bound monumental sculpture.

The couple stopped by Gagosian Gallery to view a $ 600,000 sculpture by British artist Glenn Brown, which resembled a tower built with brush strokes.

The first is a «Skoob Tower» burning, described by Latham as a «sculpture in reverse» - skoob being the word books inverted - realised by Neal White; the second Annea Lockwood's «Piano Burning» and the third a building of Gordon Matta - Clark's «Garbage Wall».

And perhaps more importantly, through a process of creating and then painting bronzes, Gavin Turk builds high - art sculptures that act as «fake» readymades, calling into question every assumption we have about viewing objects — from McDonald's wrappers, to the glittering stadiums that tower above them.

Three sculptures are located at the base of the three towers of the Smithson - designed Economist buildings.

In 1999 she built three monumental sculpture towers for the inauguration of London's Tate Modern.

A few steps away, the sculptures of Alexander Calder and canvases of Mark Rothko dominate the building's tower galleries.

She has also built a long wall of poles and colored ribbons that brushes aside Richard Serra's towering metal sculpture Carnegie as it plows from the street into the museum.

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy «Bat Tower» being built to draw the pest - fighting pollinators to the area.

The Sao Paulo Museum of Art and Brazilian Museum of Sculpture are some of the landmarks, but you can feel the style of a movement which inspired the name «Brazilian Brutalism» just walking the Avenida Paulista, with its towering buildings more intimidating than New York City's skyscrapers.

For example, construction company SOM sculptured the 309 - metre - tall Pearl River Tower in China so it directs wind to in - built turbines that generate energy for the building.