Sentences with phrase «grain silo»

Only decommissioned nuclear reactors transformed into amusement parks beats this: a handful of unused grain silos in Iowa, United States have been converted into eight - storey tall ice climbing walls, prompted in part by the immediate region's lack of vertical surfaces.

The museum has its home in a repurposed historic Grain Silo complex at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

Gallerie Silo, for instance, is located in a former grain silo for the Weber Bread Company and is home to the artist Michel Armour, who has opened the ground floor as an exhibition space for his work.

They take clear pleasure in rendering banal spaces as canvasses, turning grain silos into giant eyes and shipping containers into towering portraits of the dock workers» wives.

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, or Zeitz MOCAA, is a new non-profit institution occupying a Thomas Heatherwick - designed building in an iconic, 57m - tall grain silo on Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, due to open at the end of 2016.

Drawing inspiration from disparate sources, such as public engagement, harsh noise, GMOs, pirate radio, and vibrational healing, the installation will present three distinct but intertwined projects: a sonorous grain silo, lathe - cut loop records, and public radio broadcasts.

From 1981 - 1987, soy dust from grain silo unloading in the harbor of Barcelona, Spain, caused 26 epidemics of asthma, seriously jeopardizing 687 people and leading to 1,155 hospitalizations.

One of the attractions of so - called «vernacular» architecture — such as grain silos, factories and barns — is its ingenuousness.

There are some abandoned grain silos in an industrial area of the city just southwest of downtown.

For her assigned song, «Fixing A Hole,» Judy designed a 40 foot high mural that was painted on the side of the monumental White Tomkins and Courage Grain Silo at Stanley Dock in Liverpool.

Körbes purchased an old grain silo from a farmer (these are apparently quite abundant in the region), and began to remake the interior into a real home.

Elf Waves (Sound House 2) is an engaging public sound project housed in a modified grain silo that offers an aural, visual, and physical experience.

The spectacular mural will be installed on the walls of the White Tomkins and Courage Grain Silo, Stanley Dock, Liverpool.

«Africa's Tate Modern» opened in Cape Town in September in a former grain silo converted by Thomas Heatherwick.

Looking to show that old things can be transformed into beautiful, livable structures, Dutch architects Jan Körbes and Denis Oudendijk of REFUNC converted an unused grain silo into a small home for Körbes and his young daughter.

• Scale a Silo - Head to Climb Up OKC to clamber up climbing terrain housed not only within the artwork - clad repurposed grain silos, but on the outside of them, too!

Forward - thinking creatives are beginning to repurpose the gritty grain silos and Frank Lloyd Wright architecture that once defined the city landscape, while the arrival of younger residents seeking out Buffalo's still - affordable housing options has re-energized the city's social scene.

Mine was full of adventure including a Game of Thrones themed party at a local bar, exploring an abandoned grain silo with a view of downtown, and working at one of the largest races in Chicago.

In 2011 barley seeds were recovered from pre-Hispanic grain silos at three archaeological sites on Gran Canaria: Guayadeque — Cuevas Muchas (henceforth Subsistence mosaics, forager - farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

(Perhaps the farm's grain silos subconsciously inspired his son's fictional subterranean silo.)

For this dramatic repurposing of a waterfront grain silo, superstar architect Thomas Heatherwick added pillowed - glass panels to the exterior, bringing Cape Town's scenery (Table Mountain and the city on one side, the harbor on the other) into all 28 rooms.

Originally containing four large grain silos, the building has been reimagined into a 9 storey hotel.

Bigger spaces to house more chickens, bigger trucks to transport the produce, more grain silos so your farm can work unaided for longer.

Former Puma chairman Jochen Zeitz is converting a 1920s grain silo along Cape Town's harbor to be a nine - story museum to exhibit his vast holdings of African artists like conceptual photographer Edson Chagas as well as international stars like Glenn Ligon.

From the soaring vistas of the Western Mountains to the Eastern Plains grain silos and abandoned drive - in movie theater signs, one will be moved by these landscapes that portray the diverse moods of the familiar yet ever changing beauty of Colorado.

Outside, Wasserman Projects is flanked by a repurposed corrugated metal grain silo, which has been transformed into a sound experience installation by local artist Jon Brumit.

An emblematic grain silo slated for demolition has been transformed into a one - of - a-kind opera house and theater.

Phil was raised in a small mid-western town where his father operated several grain silos and mom was a teacher.

They take clear pleasure in rendering banal spaces as canvasses, turning grain silos into giant eyes and shipping containers into towering portraits of the dock workers

Detroit - based artist Jon Brumit's outdoor installation includes a sonorous grain silo, lathe - cut loop records, and public radio broadcasts

After years of working together and looking for the right place for my growing collection, we heard that the V&A Waterfront was considering transforming the historic Grain Silo complex into a cultural institution.

Apart from this the slight surface temperature rise should surprise no - one; earlier research (2004, S. Baidya Roy and S. W. Pacala) has shown a similar effect and if looked for, it probably would be found downwind of any tall structure that causes turbulence, such as grain silos.

Just 28 individually designed and decorated rooms, including a spectacular penthouse, are being built in the grain elevator portion of this historic grain silo.

«Like the wind scours paint from an old grain silo, Susan Henderson's writing scours away all the pretend niceness of small town life in Montana to reveal the frayed and patched nature of humanity.

The outdoor space will simultaneously host Elf Waves, Earth Loops, and * Spatial Forces, a large - scale, multi-form sound installation by Detroit artist Jon Brumit, which includes a modified grain silo that responds to visitors by playing a customized soundtrack upon their arrival.

Buffalo's as solidly Democratic a city as there is, but Republicans were able to carve out a district kept contiguous by a stretch of abandoned grain silos that connects white working - class neighborhoods in the north to more conservative southern suburbs.

The Zeitz MOCAA will house the largest collection of contemporary African art on the continent, and the impressive former grain silo could become the new icon for the city and a beacon for the country.

The grain silo pictured is nothing more than a cylinder and two cones, says PrepScholar, both of which have formulas for calculating their volume:

Each truck load entering the grain silo facility is placed under a PASS or NO PASS test using ELISA testing.

Also included is a freezer facility for frozen foods, dry warehousing for raw and finished goods, grain silos, packaging facilities, material handling infrastructure, aseptic pulping facilities, and a steam generation unit.

And there's enough drama to be had from a nail dangerously stuck out of stairs, a plunge into a grain silo, a night - time rat - run through a monster - infested cornfield, a sudden basement flood that draws a creature to the sound of gushing water, and an encounter with a mad old neighbour driven to the point when he just has to screw up his face and scream.

That distinction sounds like a negative criticism but it's not: In its most effective set - pieces, like a bathtub birth sequence involving star Emily Blunt and a gripping showdown in a grain silo, the movie recalls the visceral popcorn thrills of Steven Spielberg blockbusters like War of the Worlds and Jurassic Park.

The good news is you don't need $ 13,250, or a grain silo in the backyard.

What if you don't have an extra $ 13,250 in your pocket, or a grain silo to store the corn?

The gallery is located on the ground level of the artist's studio, the curious tower on the corner of Mason and Gray, which used to serve as a grain silo for Santa Barbara's now nearly forgotten Weber Bread.