The sculptural
concrete facades and the green campus are striking, while inside the walls come alive with large, colourful murals.
Philippe Starck handled the interiors, and Markus Linnenbrink was commissioned for the exterior, emblazoning 40,000 square feet of
the concrete facade with his signature drip painting.
«Today, at the entrance to the swank new replacement facility (in the same location as the old one), and surrounded by native plantings and an elegant molded
concrete facade, is a commissioned, site - specific sculpture by New York City — based artist Jean Shin, titled Reclaimed.
With
its concrete facade, it has been likened to a peacock or called «Fort Book» and has been praised or derided as brutalist architecture.»
You can see through the grille already, but just in case you want to display that bare
concrete facade, you're able to do so.
Nothing about the massive 1960s
concrete facade and the rotted wood windows said «come in and stay awhile.»
Moon replaced the windows, removed
the concrete facade and accompanying frame structure, and touched up paint on exposed bricks.
Not exact matches
To dress up the pre-cast
concrete parking ramp, which is completed, the
facade will be covered over by a textured metal perforated screen, with articulated panels and blue - and - purple bands of light washing across at night in the Aloft brand colors.
«We'd keep the bones of buildings steel and
concrete, but rewrap those spaces with increasingly more biological
facades.
Katarzyna Przezwanska «s work is both playful and serious: riotous colors precisely define spaces for objects on a desk or in a room, or grace the
facade of a dour old
concrete building.
To celebrate the building's new life (one of the first buildings made of reinforced
concrete in the city which was built in 1938 — at the corner between Piazza San Babila and Corso Venezia — by the architect Giacomo De Min), on the occasion of Milan Design Week 2018, Studio Job have designed a Pop Art inspired love letter for Milan on the stunning Rationalist
facade of the Garage.
Modernist
facades, handrails, staircases, fire escapes, fences, walls, ceilings, corridors, and playground structures from the 1960s and 1970s become inspiration for the artist's dynamic sculptures and installations in steel,
concrete, and plastic: a vertiginous, melting staircase reaching to the sky; a toppled tower, its walls like the curved ribs of a Jurassic skeleton; rumpled folds of intersecting grids suspended from the ceiling.
But in present - day downtown Brooklyn he's disarmed streetwalkers with his wordplay (which includes such horrible pick - up lines as «I Paid the Light Bill Just To See Your Face») painted in bold lettering across the
concrete - and - steel
facades that dominate the landscape.
Photographic details of
facades, cornices, windows, and other architectural elements are printed on vinyl and affixed to geometric armatures of bronze, steel, and brass, as well as
concrete and wood.
The distinctive
facades of the two - storey, 14,000 - square - foot (4,267 - square - metre) contemporary art museum for the Linda Pace Foundation will be made of crimson precast
concrete panels flecked with glass aggregate.
«All too often, the most amazing feats of human engineering are kept hidden and disguised under shiny
facades or reinforced
concrete.»
Light is the enemy of art, so the street
facade is a mixture of cladding with white - painted
concrete and only exiguous daylight - openings.
The masonry - framed windows of Harlem's vernacular architecture nd an echo in the rhythmic composition of the
facade, with its textured, precast
concrete and windows of varying proportions.
The space's
facade, which is usually made almost entirely of glass, has been covered in
concrete, and the gallery's floor has been ripped up and replaced with distressed tiling.
He also hired the British starchitect David Adjaye to build an avant - garde seven - story black
concrete town house (quietly concealed, Lex Luthor - style, behind the unassuming late - 19th - century
facade of an Upper East Side carriage house) and stocked it with enough treasures to make an auction - house rep weak in the knees.
The large glass
facade allows the sun to warm the
concrete shell.
Some might measure to the outside of the building
facade or to the end of a
concrete ledge outside the window, thus charging for space that can not be used.
In order to achieve this, the designer used the house's contemporary cube - shaped
facade as the jumping - off point, opting for
concrete slabs set in a geometric design to juxtapose the lush and textured plant combinations.