Sentences with phrase «floors of abandoned buildings»

His practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture, and some of his most well - known projects involved laboriously cutting holes into floors of abandoned buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), slicing a suburban villa in two.

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As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

After spending hours outside of the county administration building downtown, serving as an advocate for abandoned cats and dogs, the 6 - year - old cockapoo plunked herself on the brick floor at her handler's feet.

Some of his best - known projects involved laboriously cutting holes in the floors or walls of abandoned or soon - to - be-demolished buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), meticulously slicing a house in two.

Pictured here is Matta - Clark creating his work Bronx Floor: Threshole (1972), which he made by putting geometric cuts into the floors of abandoned Bronx buildings.

To see the installations in one show we did you had to climb up a fire escape and then up two more floors before swinging on a rope into an abandoned section of a building.