Sentences with phrase «built shacks»

We walked through a dump, where families had literally built shacks on top of mountains of garbage.

He looked at my newly - built shack, and said, «Hmm... Well... It'll work.

He plants crops, builds a shack, and maintains a non-committal détente with the soldiers from both countries who patrol the river, careful to protect his granddaughter from the lustful gaze of men with machine guns and his crops from the inevitable storms of the changing seasons.

In his 2008 Schumann Machine, he built a shack decorated with flames and inside recited a dramatic poem accompanied by a piano.

Not exact matches

Further, if we enter into a new market with unionized construction companies, or the construction companies in our current markets become unionized, construction and build out costs for new Shacks in such markets could materially increase.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

It is not uncommon to go into some of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle of this community, find a large, grandly constructed church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass, beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.

It's building castles in the sand instead of a shack on a rock.

Maybe you heard the saying that says, Preaching the good news is like building a mansion next to their shack.

But it was the first thing I had ever built, and initially, I was quite proud of that shack.

McEwen's new property was virtually undeveloped, with only a single existing building (a small shack) and no fences, irrigation, or paddocks.

Saturday afternoon around 1:30, armed only with a street number and a general idea of the building's whereabouts, I drive past twice, first overlooking it then saying, «Nah, that can't be it,» but, maybe, that tiny little box over there, over near the river and nothing else except some abandoned warehouses with shattered windows and a few wind - whipped scrub pines, that rundown shack over there with the rutted dirt parking area and the fish market behind it, maybe that's the gym.

In other news, I am looking to build a time machine and go back to the 60s to shack up with the young Sophia Loren.

They came out from the town to fish and, since it was a considerable journey in those days, soon began to build fishing shacks.

They contributed their touch to the shacks, with their sharply pitched roofs that almost came down to the ground, and from this casual beginning emerged the» «Sconset cottage,» which may be seen in its pristine form at Codfish Park at the foot of the bluff, and in its refined state, with roses tumbling down the roofs, all around the village and notably at The Inn, which has more than a score of them around its main building and Moby Dick, its celebrated bar.

But a group of squatters has built adobe shacks atop an ancient trash midden, or mound, and a local landowner may be planning to build a housing development over the buried pyramids.

He was a homeless man who built his own shack on the heath and he stayed the course.

As always, the Volvo 850 is built like a brick ski shack, and the construction emphasizes energy absorption before brute resistance.

They're small shacks built with corrugated iron where homebrewed beer is served.

To attract business along the causeway that slices through El Djerid, shacks selling inky mint tea and clusters of beige crystal roses — which occur naturally underground — build life - size camels out of the one material found here in excess: salt.

During your river ride, you will see hotels, wooden shacks, old colonial buildings, and temples.

You'll find the Pirate's Well dug by buccaneers that roamed here in the past; a former U.S. military base and tracking station built in the 1950s; and the Abraham's Bay Town Square, with an old homestead of a prominent family; and the «well shack» where locals gathered to collect water as late as the 1980s.

Many of the shacks are built on stilts, out over the mangrove water and connected by plywood and corrugated metal walkways.

Many new surf shacks have been built over the last decade, you got some great options right on the cliffs overlooking the main break.

My friend and I came here years and years ago, hiked down those steps, and stayed in Wayan's house — a beautiful shack built into the side of the cliff.

ALL OF OUR ACCOMMODATION IS BUILT RIGHT ON THE SAND OF THE BEACH and all three types of accommodation have beautiful sea views whether it be from the shack patios or from the picture windows of our deluxe apartments.

Koh Panyee is a small island with hundreds of huts, shacks and restaurants build on stilts over the shallow water.

Built in 1976, three bedrooms contain a queen bed in each and the shack will

Port Campbell Guesthouse and Flash Packers is an original fishing shack built in 1901, lovingly renovated to suit today's traveller.

Built in 1976, three bedrooms contain a queen bed in each and the shack will comfortably accommodate up to eight people.

Many of the houses were located inside one - room cement buildings or tiny make - shift looking shacks with wooden slats for walls and either a rubber or palapa - leaf roof.

These traditional wooden shacks are built on stilts, with thatched roofs, simple ceiling fans, mosquito nets and private bathrooms.

I've seen huge castles connected together by horizontal elevators and buildings that hang over the side of mountains with only a vertical lift for access, though they are outnumbered by small shacks that often litter the landscape.

Collecting and crafting a small set of tools and resources to start, you will gradually build up your dirt shack into a massive fortress reaching from bedrock to the sky.

That, in turn, means that all you can build is a miserable little shack.

There they built wood shacks on the National Mall and settled in to protest social and economic inequities in America.

Here are some pictures of the studio shack Simon Draper is building for me up at Spire Studios in Beacon, NY.

He juxtaposes modernist architecture with structures common in Latin America — favela shacks, adobe and vernacular buildings — and he incorporates aspects of the do - it - yourself economy to find practical solutions when resources are scarce.

He eventually moved to a shack attached to the building.

«Intersections of Art and Architecture,» Catalyst Iowa, Des Moines, IA, November 11, 2009 «Temple Exercises: A Building Performance,» Levine Museum of the New, South Charlotte, NC, October 29, 2009 «Arts and Activism in St. Louis, Detroit, and Chicago,» Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, Chicago, IL, October 1, 2009 «Representations Series,» Experimental Station and Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago, IL, April 10, 2009 «Artist talk with «Temple Exercises» fabrication team,» Little Black Pearl, Chicago, IL, January 10, 2009 «Shacks, Sheds, and Other Small Spaces,» University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, 2009 «Symposium on Contemporary Painting, Performance,» University of Illinois, Champaign - Urbana, IL, 2009 «Unpacking Yamaguchi, Myth, Ecstasy and the Black Church,» School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, 2009 «Why Make Art Now,» Performance Studies, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, 2009

I was busy trying to find ways where the imagery and the material and the meanings of the painting would be not an illustration of my will but more like an unbiased documentation of my observations, and by observations I mean that literally of my excitement about the way in the city you have on one lot a forty story building and right next to it you have a little wooden shack.

The Other Side of the Sky will be shown within a specially - built structure reminiscent of an abandoned shack, offering glimpses to a group of late watercolours by JMW Turner, which will be hung alongside it.

On an unhappier note, a proposed project for the 1996 Olympics, an 11 - foot - tall shack sculpture in Woodruff Park intended as a memorial to Mary Combs, Atlanta's first black property owner, caused such controversy that it was never built.

In the center of the web is a cluster of buildings including representations of the author Henry David Thoreau's cabin on Walden Pond, the shack where Ted Kaczynski (a.k.a. the Unabomber) lived, and the cult leader David Koresh's compound at Waco, Texas.

If they were enlarged, Lee's bristling, suspended structures might resemble shiny versions of the forest shacks and shelters built by the Canadian outsider architect Richard Greaves; or the booby - trapped mansion constructed between 1884 and 1922 by Sarah Winchester, the gun magnate's widow (as she tried to stave off death).

I built a 12 × 16 tar paper shack besides a brook in a little hollow in Vermont back in the early 70's.

The foundation was way too small and really wouldn't have supported a small shack so the entire building project was scrapped.

This was done to insure neighbors would not be building expensive homes next to shacks and in turn the township is guaranteed the tax income they want.

He has built countless tiny houses and shacks, many of which are on view at his blog Relax Sshacks, many of which are on view at his blog Relax ShacksShacks.

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