Sentences with phrase «igloo structure»

Not exact matches

«Unfortunately, your igloo, while very well constructed, has failed to meet our occupancy standards,» the company told the structure's creator.

They might contribute to a biome poem, illustrate environmental pictures using sand art, make thermometers from used plastic bottles, construct a life - sized model of an igloo, enjoy snow cones from the tundra, or categorize animals according to physical structures, adaptation abilities, and symmetry.

Cut a jug in half; then glue the bottom portion of the jug to the top of the structure to finish the igloo off.»

The ceremony is an ancient tradition that takes place in a sweat lodge (essentially an igloo shaped structure with blankets over it to trap the heat in), in which a shaman places heated volcanic rocks in a center pit and tops them with various herbs and water to create incredible amounts of steam.

A particularly significant work by one of Arte Povera's forerunners is Mario Merz's From Continent to Continent, a more than five - foot - tall igloo - like structure.

The sale also features an igloo sculpture by Mario Merz which, like so many of the artist's works, is an exercise in fluid creativity — a structure that infuses the space around it with light, energy and a pervasive sense of the endless procreative flow of the cosmos.

Examining how we define and signify a housing structure, Merz's igloo works are nonetheless difficult to conceive of as part of a home installation themselves, given their scale (the above illustrated example measures roughly 8ft 9in by 16ft 6in by 33ft 8in).

The principle structure in her installation takes the form of a dome, an igloo or a half globe, fabricated from steel and clay, with projections of the language of the Inuit on the surfaces.

While wandering through the vast halls of the Hamburger Bahnhof's Reickhallen, I was immediately taken by the human - scale (but still quite small), white igloo - like structure that essentially has no more room than that which one might need to live.

His trademark structure was the igloo.

In his forthcoming essay on Mario Merz's Igloo (1971), Matt Jolly explicates the political vicissitudes of the Arte Povera artist's porous, hemispherical structure that hovers somewhere between sculpture and habitable architecture within the white cube, pointing toward more strident forms of institutional critique following the social upheaval of the late 1960s.

Stacked here like blocks of ice or stones, they conjure all manner of contradictory associations: walls, igloos, Donald Judd boxes, and more unlikely, Anselm Kiefer's massive acrylic, oil, shellac, and sand painting of a serpentine structure The Fertile Crescent (2009).

From simple snow forts to intricate igloos, there's something undeniably satisfying about forging a structure using materials exclusively supplied by the winter sky.