Sentences with phrase «glass facade of»

The best thing about the James Goldcrown's «love wall» may be the fact that it's displayed on the four - story glass facade of Henri Bendel — which faces Trump Tower.

«Presently, we are surrounded by towering cranes and glistening glass facades of high rise properties which local residents can not afford to buy.

According to Colsmann, another field of application is the integration of solar cells into buildings: Since the glass facades of high - rise buildings must often be shaded, it is an obvious option to use organic solar modules for transforming the absorbed light into electric power.

Her photographs of the glass facades of modernist architectural landmarks are silkscreened onto large glass panels.

With the Boulevard Raspail and the institution's Lothar Baumgarten — designed gardens as backdrop, Milhazes will transform the front and back glass facades of the Fondation Cartier's Jean Nouvel building into a translucent spectacle of collaged adhesive film.

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The design called for glass facades rather than the brick exteriors of suburban drive - thrus, allowing potential customers passing on foot to see the interior.

This is a song I wrote some years ago when all the facade had come crumbling down, and some rose - colored glasses were ripped off of my face.

All three towers that make up the development have either topped out or are close to topping out, and one of the three is now nearly fully clad in its glass facade.

The renovation includes the addition of a glass facade, allowing passersby to see into the space even when the garage door is down in the winter, they noted.

By Jack Zemlicka Milwaukee County is shedding the metal and glass facade for the O'Donnell Park parking garage and the extra $ 1.2 million cost of the panels.

«In the case of the Oberbaum Bridge there is a massive glass facade, a shiny railing and the running water of the Spree river, all within the scanner's field of view,» says Matthew Shaw of ScanLAB Projects, a 3D - scanning company based in London.

«We are envisioning solar cell layers on glass facades, which let part of the light into the building while at the same time creating electricity,» says Thomas Mueller.

He is quietly menacing, formidably intelligent, and uses a facade of sophistication and knowledge to conceal anger that runs deep: He is enraged that his bones break, that his body betrays him, that he was injured so often in grade school that the kids called him «Mr. Glass.»

Waving around a martini glass with a disdainful manner, Pike's socialite is a wonderfully hilarious example of the sham behind David's sophisticated facade.

It took him a disorienting second to realize what he was seeing, the swelling black mass against the white stone and glass of the hotel facade, and then it was finished, with a sound that he knew he would carry to his grave.

Although Paul needs thick glasses, his instinctual vision allows him to «see» behind the facade of Tangerine County, Florida, where his family has recently moved.

A stylish building with attractive facades and plenty of glass contains spacious apartments with every amenity you could want.

The gleaming white Belle Epoque facade sums up the essence of Monte - Carlo ritz and glitz: inside, it boasts one of the most famous lobbies in Europe, with a glass domed cupola designed by Gustave Eiffel (as in, the tower).

Unique artwork adorns what solid wall space there is, while the front facade of the living pavilion is an abstract notion of floor - to - ceiling glass doors and windows that remain open to the elements.

Valuable and renowned artworks line much of what solid wall space there is, while the front facade of the living pavilion is an abstract notion of floor - to - ceiling glass doors and windows that remain open to the elements.

The striking blue glass facade is comprised of 7,300 blue - colored glass panels, forming a curtain wall around the tower.

One of the features we love is that the glass and white metal 18 — story facade is positioned at an east — west angle.

They then wrapped both layers in a translucent polycarbonate facade that seals the museum off from the park, save for a ribbon of glass here and there, and a dramatic 30 - foot - long door that can be raised or lowered about as easily as the garage door on a suburban home.

The entrance facade, in the southern cylinder, is a wall of glass flanked by square corner pilasters, while the northern cylinder is illuminated by 56 hexagonal windows inserted into the diagonal brick grid of the frame.

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.

He estimates that on a daily basis he lives with 15 to 20 percent of his collection, and while his home is «treated like a museum setting» with a humidification system and a rear facade composed of UV resistant glass, it remains a family space.

Designed by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, the 150,000 - square - foot building has a distinct glass facade comprising numerous hexagonal panels, a recurring geometric motif that shaped the theme of «Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color,» curated by Margo Crutchfield.

[25] At the time of his death, he was working on designs for a fountain commissioned by the city of Winterthur in 1991, Switzerland, and a new glass facade for a railroad station in Basel, Switzerland.

For example, the Spring Street building's 6,000 - square - foot facade has 40 window bays with their original glass, like a precursor of a modern glass curtain wall.

The works are projected onto the floor and walls, on screens and onto the huge glass roof and facade of the Grand Palais.

This element of the installation is an exciting and somewhat subversive reference to the renovation of the space into a gallery, highlighting as it does the hybridisation of styles that the Serpentine Sackler itself displays: the original gunpowder store's red - brick functionality, with its classicised facade, and the organic white plastic and glass extension attached to its left side by Zaha Hadid Architects, 208 years later.

Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The architecture's changing spatialities and glass facade facing the city reflects on Bonniers Konsthall's desire to be an open and accessible venue, sensitive to new movements and changing expressions of contemporary art.

Prominent in his paintings are the reflective surfaces of glass facades and storefronts, shining cars and buses, ferry boats and the mighty bridges that connect the city's boroughs.

The front glass facade will receive new glass panels designed to maximize control of the amount of light that enters the museum regardless of the time of day or season; the use of shades will no longer be necessary during visiting hours.

The most eye - catching of the building's updates is its dramatic entryway, a facade of glass under a triangular prow that hangs 60 feet out from the building.

The space mimics that of an open plan gallery, taking over a pavilion - style single storey building with a two wall facade almost fully in glass.

Now the majority of visitors — those who leave their cars parked in the museum's new underground garage — emerge via glass elevator or grand stairway to a view of the Kahn building's facade, with all its marvelous detail, across a 65 - yard expanse of lawn and trees; Piano's new pavilion is at their backs.

Isolating fragments of the glass - curtain facades, the works are rendered in forceful colors — citron, ocher, electric blue, fuchsia — representing the blazing neon light reflected by neighboring buildings and adjacent advertising signage.

The notable end - of - century buildings of Richard Meier include the Getty Center in Los Angeles (1984 — 1997), where buildings of different shapes are united by their whitish stone - faced facades and broad panels of glass; and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (1980 — 83).

This includes an installation made of cardboard boxes by Carlos Bunga and photographs of glass facades by Veronika Kellndorfer.

Certain exterior features that at first look like Gehry mannerisms redeem themselves completely in the visitor's experience, notably the nearly block - long two - story curved glass facade that can give the front of the museum the aspect of a vitreous blimp.

Featured images: Facade of Artists Space in the mid-1990s; Moyra Davey — Glass SP - NY, 2014.

Glass facades, windows and skylights offer natural light and visual sightlines to central courtyards and a network of walkways that incorporate adaptations of traditional architectural features.

The west facade, the main entrance, is made of milled laminated glass on a rigid frame system, and the east facade is composed of a corrugated black metal panel system and transparent glass.The most striking feature of the building is the inventive use of a moving exhibition space that can serve as an extension of the gallery floor.

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.

Her early minimal sculptures and drawings of the 70s through to the gestural paintings and installations of powdered spices from the 80s, and video works of the 90s; it was only in the last ten years of her life that she found considerable success in public commissions, notably the 60,000 - piece glass mosaic on the south facade of Royal Albert Hall in London.

A chequered facade of timber and glass surrounds one of two new neighbourhood libraries by Adjaye Associates to open in Washington DC.

«The Studio Museum is designed to be accessible from the street, the glass facade is meant to be inviting,» Hallie described the Studio Museum with endearment and was determined to resolve how museums could serve artists and audiences alike, and what methods could function to bring viewers into the often exclusionary world of contemporary art.

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.