Sentences with phrase «in a cement wall»

A village in Nigeria is using plastic bottles to provide shelter, packing them with sand and then using them as the bricks in a cement wall.

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The unfinished cement floor is cut through with a couple of white walls, slapped up in a hurry when management realized the open - concept design hadn't left space for meetings.
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The woman, her husband, and three children lived in a one - room house with cement walls.
Kyrie Irving begins his age 21 season hoping for a third year jump like Wall's that would cement his status in the NBA's elite.
Medical student and physiologist Sir Roger Bannister broke through the «cement wall» on 6 May 1954, completing the mile race in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.
We didn't want to waste too much fudge in our testing (although it did all get eaten) so decided to build two small walls to test our «cement».
My pumping location at work was a closet in the basement; cement floors, cinderblock walls, and a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling.
Sometimes, homes with thick cement walls may experience areas in the house that do not transmit well.
While many cranes and cement mixers are at work in L'Aquila, much of the town's historic centre is unoccupied and frozen in the state it was shortly after the earthquake, with simple beams shoring up windows, doorways and cracked walls and vegetation beginning to encroach.
Clad in Cement Tile Shop Bordeaux floor tiles, this gorgeous bathroom features a glass partition separating a rain shower head mounted to a white subway tile backsplash fixed above a freestanding tub placed in front of a window beneath a wall mounted polished nickel shower kit.
Exquisite Mediterranean themed bathroom is clad in Cement Tile Shop Bordeaux Tiles that cover the floor and an accent wall fitted with a window positioned above an oval freestanding bathtub with a floor mount tub filler.
Special effects contribute to scenes that depict people being killed in highly creative ways, like being semi-integrated into cement walls and floors with only a few body parts and faces sticking out.
But when 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi turns into the two - hour - long action symphony it can barely wait to become — a harrowing stretch of shadowy aggressors charging the walls of a compound, bullets pinging off metal, spent ammo casings showering the cement underfoot, endless carnage — this director is completely in his wheelhouse.
They're made out of traditional iron - reinforced concrete beams and columns, but the cinderblocks in the walls are replaced with «eco-bricks» - plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic waste material such as chip packets - that are sandwiched in between chicken wire and covered in cement.
Patricia Ralph, shared a story that, in hindsight, feels prophetic: «When the school pulled off a blackboard panel to install an electronic whiteboard as part of the conversion, Ralph saw that a cross was drawn directly onto the cement wall.
It was in the unfinished basement of an old school — cement floors and walls, ceiling - to - floor poles throughout the room.
The extended mirrors help, but it's not the kind of machine you can lazily pilot with one hand, especially when passing semitrucks in tight, cement - walled construction zones.
The lights have been out in the lobby since I moved in; they never finished the interior walls in the foyers outside the elevator, and the windows are boarded up, so every time I step outside the apartment door I'm in a weird twilight world of bare cement and blue fluorescent light.
No nasty cages or 4 cement walls to play in for 30 minutes.
These will need to be placed on top of a washable surface, such as cement or linoleum (as shown in the photo of the pen constructed against an existing wall).
The spacious compound is surrounded by faded cement walls and reachable from the street through a steel gate that's locked at night (guests can buzz themselves in after hours).
However the details are cemented in the memories of Texans, her story has resonated as an essential part of Texas history, seeping through the hotel's historic walls and influencing the travelers who visit and discover this unique tale.
The flat in Madrid with the balcony door that opened to a cement wall.
The Koret Children's Quarter, often considered the best playground in the entire city, has San Francisco - steep cement slides and a climbing wall shaped like a crashing wave.
In addition to the in - room safes, security comes by way of a tall cement wall and steel - bar door that locks automatically when shuIn addition to the in - room safes, security comes by way of a tall cement wall and steel - bar door that locks automatically when shuin - room safes, security comes by way of a tall cement wall and steel - bar door that locks automatically when shut.
Jade - coloured plunge pools in the Pool Suites run the length of the room flanked by palm trees and tropical greenery within high cement walls.
The town's streets are filled with lots of colourful, vibrant and interesting murals and street art located in random places along the sides of buildings, cement walls, and on houses.
A successful wall bounce strike towards a certain side of specific multi-tiered levels will send the opponent hurling through cement, metal, or any number of ungodly things in epic fashion into the next part of the stage as they take damage along the ride.
This sense in his work of the tangible, a coming together of his first job painting houses and his implacably wall - like landscapes, lasted throughout Bogart's lifetime, through to the overwhelming presence of his celebrated late paintings, glowing blocks constructed, quite literally, out of great globs of pigment mixed with cement.
In the final gallery, selections from X Portfolio and ephemera from The Perfect Moment, the 1988 exhibition that cemented Mapplethorpe's notoriety, are presented on opposite walls.
In other words, USB sticks poking out of cement walls around New York, an antithesis to cloud computing, Google's server farms, and the assumption that we can find all the data we need online.
Turning a corner in the gallery brings us to a cement site specific work entitled, «Wall (Up)».
William de Morgan wall tiles on display in the Pre-Raphaelites gallery will be referenced in a new piece from Vasconcelos» «Tetris» series (made with tiles, crochet and various fabrics), while a new work for the «Cement Sculptures» series is also being created in response to the gallery's sculpture Atalanta (1888) by Francis Derwent Wood and the painting Eve Tempted (1877) by John Spencer Stanhope (both on display in the Victorian gallery).
They bear a certain similarity to the wall - sculptures: constructions of wood or metal, wrapped in foam - filler and coated with plaster or a granular layer of chalk - grey sand - cement, sometimes with applications of greasepaint.
For the fleshy pink brick painting on the north wall, Thorne and her team outlined each brick in color pencil, with enough negative space between each brick to indicate cement.
Wilson bought his studio, formerly a garage, in 2001 and renovated it to look very much like a Chelsea gallery, with a facade of frosted windows, pristine white walls, and a poured - cement floor.
The painting and 93 studies were displayed on raw - cement walls under a tarpaulin roof in the former drill - house of the Swedish navy, which would become the home of the new Moderna Museet in 1958.
If these models or objects were to hide in a natural landscape, they might be difficult to discern but when displayed in the gallery space, with its white walls and smooth cement floor, they're highlighted and foregrounded.
A plank covered with thick layers of plaster leans against a wall (Virginia Overton's Untitled, 2014); cement bags without wrapping, cast in concrete, are stacked on top of each other (Charles Harlan's Concrete, 2014); a long yellow cable hangs aimlessly from the ceiling (Michael E. Smith's Untitled, 2014).
Todolí's programme includes a mix of international and Italian players in a series of solo retrospectives specially curated for the Hangar, a 15,000 sq m industrial complex from the 1920s that features crumbling cement walls and soaring ceilings.
Once inside, the visitor is faced with a square room whose four large walls are encased in a curtain of brick and cement hanging from the eighteenth - century brick - vaulted dome.
It presents a triptych of red and white brick walls whose cement interstices have been masked with cut - out newsprint: ephemeral life lived in the cracks, or perhaps a reversal of Jasper Johns's use of newsprint in his early paintings.
A time - line on the wall in the back gallery at 534 West 25th Street reveals the at times cloying extent of Glimcher's desire to cement his legacy.
And in the third, a steel hoop is attached to a tree trunk fixed against a large cement wall, not unlike a DIY handball wall.
The new location, which has already played host to ambitious, large - scale exhibitions (notably, a recreation of Urs Fischer's 1998 sculpture Faules Fundament, or Rotten Foundation; a wall of cinderblocks laid in cement atop a base of slowly rotting fruit and vegetables), also features a sizable selection of the gallery's publishing projects.
The weed whacker piece shares space in the gallery with a pristine tower of variously sized and shaped stacked jars, each jar holding a small, dayglow rubber ball; a grid of cement sculptures formed from the interiors of plastic cups; and an airy circle of blue painters» tape applied directly to the wall.
Some of his most memorable Happenings included the construction (and later destruction) near the Berlin Wall of a wall of bread cemented with jelly and the creation in southern California of a parcel of houses built out of Wall of a wall of bread cemented with jelly and the creation in southern California of a parcel of houses built out of wall of bread cemented with jelly and the creation in southern California of a parcel of houses built out of ice.
Many hang from the walls or are cast in dyed cement and lie on the floor, where they vacillate between the mutated and the vestigial - the xenolithic and the abject.
The structure is formed from cement that was gathered back in Palestine by chipping away at the Separation Wall, a process that the artist documented in the video Concrete.
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