Sentences with phrase «house like concrete»

It doesn't smear once it sets, and it can bind the seams of a gingerbread house like concrete.

Not exact matches

The men are stored, not housed, like sides of beef in concrete bunkers.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.

The rooms at Villa Vang Vieng Riverside are bungalow style, but they are solidly built, made entirely out of wood and concrete and feel more like small traditional Lao houses, complete with terracotta roof and decorative trim.

In other works, the art objects themselves have been reproduced, recalling the likes of Josef Albers» square compositions, Yinka Shonibare's headless figures, Giovanni Anselmo's concrete and lettuce forms, Erwin Wurm's House Attack (2006) and Alexander Calder's suspended sculptures, among others.

The floor exhibits comprise small foundational house - building structures like pillars with protruding beams, roughly cemented plaques, unfinished walls and corrosive metal and concrete tablets.

Artists like Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Frank Stella were encouraged to experiment and take creative risks on the 49 - acre estate — which along with the house includes a pond, neoclassical - style pavilion in concrete and other small structures.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

It seems like a sensible idea; In New Orleans, many of the new houses are built permanently on concrete stilts and look pretty clunky.

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.

It often does not live up to this promise - many are built far away as second homes, founded on concrete and tethered to the grid like any other house.

Like this house, it would probably be made with a lot of wood, recycled materials, cellulose insulation, concrete and foam free and with a serious load of photovoltaics on the roof.

The board says it would have liked to see more concrete commitments regarding tax measures relating to housing, in particular to improve the Home Buyers» Plan (HBP).

This is years down the road though, so until then it will be concrete like the rest of the house.

What it was saying in that article though is that when a home appraiser comes out they have to count painted concrete as a room without ANY flooring, which gives your house a lower value and buyer don't like to pay more than the house is valued.

Like the majority of the house, the staircase is formed from concrete, but the addition of black pigment to the mix creates a dark, speckled finish that won't show up wear and tear.

We've done a decent amount concrete work over the past few years, like our huge DIY patio a few years ago, and since then a couple more small sections of patio at our current house that you» v e never seen... And our amazing contributors have made some really cool projects like this concrete frame, modular mini -LSB-...]

I had an aggragate concrete patio (concrete with rough texture and small pebbles, etc in the mix) and always wished we could have afforded brick like on our front porch, when we first built the house in 1997.