Sentences with phrase «facades of»

DG.B: Yes, in Spring 2017, I bought a 3 - D scanner, typically used to replicate the facades of architecture, to the cave site that I had been sourcing the fragments from.
The generic items — upholstery, tires, mufflers, parts — denoted in signs on the topmost part of the facades of blank buildings in the Archi - Props series (1993/1997; all seven lithos were present) are delivered in a delicate upper case that feels strangely obsolete.
In contrast to the historic facades of Hull's Maritime Museum, Ferens Art Gallery, and City Hall sits Blade, a giant installation by multimedia artist Nayan Kulkarni.
The heroic names of warriors from Homer's Iliad often adorn the facades of present - day kebab shops; a fact that fascinates the British artist.
This device is most obviously used with New York Skyscrapers, (2005), a work consisting of four aluminium panels mounted with photographs of the mirrored window facades of the city's skyscrapers but also notably in early works such as Fenster (1992) and Jeder braucht mindestens ein Fenster (1993).
By disguising identity, she locates an uneasy disjunction between facades of normality and inner worlds that don't quite fit those facades.
In 2000, the artist created a temporary neon installation on four facades of Peter Zumthor's Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, entitled Millennium 2000.
Hammons's vision is inspired by a 1975 work by Gordon Matta - Clark in which he cut five openings into the facades of the original Pier 52 shed.
Creative Time and The Museum of Modern Art have commissioned the artist to create a multi-screen video installation that will be projected on seven facades of the MoMA on 53rd and 54th Streets.
User - generated content linked to the selected city such as recent news, tweets, images, videos, and posts from social networks, is searched and retrieved in real time and displayed as a multiple moving collage onto the facades of an abstract urban environment.
Her photographs of the glass facades of modernist architectural landmarks are silkscreened onto large glass panels.
Originally vibrantly colored, DeSanctis white washes the final layers, diffusing the diversity like the sun bleached facades of the bland buildings that blend the cultural identities of the population that lives along the winding edges of Sunset Boulevard.
Wielding a spray gun instead of a brush, Grosse often paints directly on the walls, floors, or facades of her exhibition sites, altering the logic and scale of architecture itself.
Shi Zhiying has become well known in her native China for stark monochromatic paintings of uniform vistas — open water, Zen sand gardens, carpets of grass, facades of weathered ancient structures — that flood the viewer's field of vision.
The first items you see are broken plates and stacks of it that gave you wisps of Julian Schnabel but looking at the center of them that you find the Sepia toned facades of nearby Lower East Side buildings.
Highlights include the video Pasa Tiempo (Pastime), which shows the artist stitching an airplane on her hand to express the Cuban peoples desire to travel, and a series of three paintings titled Degradación (Degradation) that is made from fragments of paint that Ms. Quiñones has peeled from the facades of deteriorating buildings in old Havana.
Titled after the name of a Jersey Shore arcade and the Ancient Roman wrestling phrase, «It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye,» the book documents the artist's self - described obsession with what is hidden behind the facades of strip clubs, haunted houses and nightclubs and other places of fantasy and entertainment.
Best known for his monumental cuts, holes, apertures, and excisions to the facades of derelict homes and historic buildings in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, and abroad, Gordon Matta - Clark's work conveys a potent critique of architecture's role vis - à - vis the capitalist system.
His more than 125 public sculptures grace everything from the grassy sweeps of idyllic public parks to the imposing facades of steel and glass skyscrapers.
Her works evoke the dual facades of theater and architecture and the stories they construct.
You wouldn't think so to look at the place but tucked behind the anonymous facades of its nondescript Legobrick industrial parks lurk some of the most talented artists and developers in the world.
Favoritez has this to say about the outdoor sets which include fake facades of Nathan's Drugs, some Lakeside Amusement Park flyers and even Andy's Books from Silent Hill Origins:
This incredible caye offers divers the chance to go on a wall dive — a dive in which the vertical facades of the earth's landmasses are explored.
Half Moon Caye in Belize offers divers the chance to go on a wall dive — a dive in which the vertical facades of the earth's landmasses are explored.
Oberammergau is a small Bavarian town, which is famous for its painted houses: the facades of the buildings are painted with biblical, fairy tale or everyday subjects and traditional ornaments.
From the moment one enters the marble outer lobby it is clear that the Waldorf's interior matches the magnificent facades of the high - rises that surround it in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.
I passed by the yellow facades of Plaza Bolivar (with a statue of Simon Bolivar in front), and cute sidewalk cafes.
The museum contains several recreated worlds from various highlights of Belize's history, complete with facades of buildings built to scale and model humans and props situated to make you feel like you are literally walking through Belize's past.
Whether its the crumbling facades of the city's once grand buildings, or the street art, shop windows and inviting cuisine, Porto is full of colour — even when it's cloudy.
The building itself is attached directly to part of the Vancouver Convention and Exhibit Centre, and the southern and eastern facades of the building are wrapped by an original poem by British artist Liam Gillick that in part reads «lying on top of a building... the clouds looked no nearer.»
Upscale shops, galleries and modern office buildings line the streets of downtown George Town, while West Bay Road is lined by high - end beachfront resorts and the gateway facades of new residential developments.
Havana is filled with crumbling, colorful facades of 20th - century buildings — largely still inhabited — vestiges of its Spanish colonial heritage.
The Sofitel Berlin Gendarmenmarkt blends in harmoniously with the historic facades of the old center of
This viewing area off the Batteries to Bluffs Trail is «where the hills of the Headlands, the grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the facades of quintessential San Franciscan houses meet the vast Pacific Ocean — and the coastal wildflowers and red - tailed hawks dance to the rhythm of the waves,» according to Yakuta Poonawalla, a Park Stewardship community program manager.
The facades of the skyscrapers mirror the blue of the sky and the turquoise waters of the Persian Gulf.
The village's thousand or so inhabitants are required to maintain the stone facades of their homes and shops, and you are free to wander along the circular cobblestones streets, stopping into the many craft shops and restaurants that welcome visitors throughout the year.
It was around this period that the warm golden and unique pre-Romanesque architecture flourished with its carved swirling stone and colorful facades of fantastic creatures and stories.
The varied and tumultuous past of this small African island lives and breathes in the chipped paint and battered facades of many of the building — a story of grandeur, past riches and of faded glory.
Set on the verge of a pretty quiet town, the stone facades of this delightful former farmhouse give it the look of a traditional country estate.
The postcards showed the facades of churches, stone fountains, crowded piazzas, terra - cotta rooftops mellowed by late afternoon sun.
The postcards showed the facades of churches, stone fountains, crowded piazzas, terra - cotta rooftops mellowed by late...
This trick is a speciality of Mikkelsen's bad sorcerer Kaecilius, and it involves taking ornate surfaces such as the facades of buildings and rolling them up like parchments, while decorative cornices swirl and seemingly solid floors turn into swirling vortexes.
Contrasts abound: between the humanity the wigless Louis displays in bed with his children and the distant king in full regalia; the empty formality of Le Nôtre's marriage and the organic intimacy of his relationship with de Barra; the sparkling facades of the court ladies and the personal tragedies they conceal; and, of course, between the clipped formality of the royal gardens and the uncontrolled fecundity of the woods beyond.
Where this falters is its need to repeat the same material alluded to in its predecessors, such as the facades of a constructed self and the way media twists its stories to achieve specific agendas.
Its heroes are weird, broken people, its villains facades of prosperity and authority, and the stakes conversely high — the fate of the world — and deeply personal.
The movie is one of the most suspenseful psychological thrillers ever made as the facades of each of these characters begins to break down, revealing hidden rivalries, marital discord, and complex sociological motivations as they all try to unravel what happened and what is happening.
Bening has been putting her personal stamp on the crusty facades of her characters since as early as 1991's Bugsy, Barry Levinson's gangland retread that fatefully paired Bening with Warren Beatty and firmly ensconced her in the upper echelons of Hollywood royalty.
At this point, the windswept locales, character ticks, and «aw, shucks» facades of the morally compromised are as well worn as a parka first donned during the Reagan administration.
He recently unveiled plans to hang a 14 - story LED billboard on the facades of two 33 - story condos a la Blade Runner.
To that end, the filmmakers produced a series of big theatrical stunts over the summer, in which they shined pictures of endangered animals on the facades of buildings in New York City.
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