Sentences with phrase «concrete block designed»

Rather, this group of about 45 women and a few men are set to embark on a full - blown architectural tour of London's most famous brutalist landmarks and modernist social housing estates, finishing with lunch at the Isokon building, a white concrete block designed by architect Wells Coates.

Not exact matches

For example, Gassner designed harder - looking Brutalist architecture (concrete blocks with sharp edges) and Spinners (flying police vehicles), as well as a seawall to prevent total flooding.

Building blocks of designing instruction for an eLearning course entails a thorough «needs assessment» of the targeted demographic: Learners» goals, concrete understanding of their expectations from the course, likely study environment, ease or comfort level with a variety of technologies, etc..

Cube rooms are a design feast, with concrete block walls, handcrafted metal fixtures and windows that create strategic spills of desert light.

A magician never reveals her tricks, so maybe that's why the Dutch design team Studio Drift declined to explain how, exactly, they are making a huge concrete block levitate at next week's Armory Show in New York.Then again, they would... Read More

A magician never reveals her tricks, so maybe that's why the Dutch design team Studio Drift declined to explain how, exactly, they are making a huge concrete block levitate at next week's Armory Show in New York.

From grand monuments to homogenised concrete blocks, what effect do these architectural structures, designed by one regime and inherited by another, have on the people who live with their legacy?

For her project some ten blocks south, at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Los Angeles — based artist Liz Glynn has re-created portions of the lost building's Stanford White — designed interiors out of concrete.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

High ceilings and an open plan design also prompted the decision to lay blocks on the flat, giving a 215 mm concrete wall.

The graphic designer also designs 3D modular projects utilizing concrete blocks, UltraDeck decking materials and Dakota Panel room organizers.

These concrete block homes are easy to sell, especially when they can be identified as a Sears Roebuck catalog design, according to Mary Strang, ABR ®, CRS ®, broker - owner of RE / MAX Hill Country Realty in Viroqua, Wis..

Strang can discern concrete block homes by comparing the homes to designs in a reproduction catalog or examining the rafters for a stamp typical of many Sears homes.

«From a design perspective, we were excited that this wasn't going to be another concrete - block center.»