Sentences with phrase «industrial port»

Besides being an administrative center, it is a light industrial port and tourist hub.

Vessels weighing 100,000 tonnes or more diverted to the less glamorous industrial port of Marghera, far from the Grand Canal.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has successfully reduced threats to the reef from major industrial ports, agriculture, and poachers, and plans to spend over two billion dollars over the next decade to preserve the reef.

Wollongong has a proud association with industry including coal mining and steel manufacture and is home to a large industrial port facility.

The new rule will come into play within the next four years and cruise ships will have to use the less appealing industrial port of Marghera which is not convenient for a day trip to Venice.

With Salerno I (1990), an image of the Italian city's busy industrial port — which, Gursky admits to photographer Jeff Wall (in a conversation printed in the exhibition catalogue), was captured in the last few minutes before sunset shadows moved in — the artist first experimented with the «all - over focus» technique that would come to define his practice.

Industrial ports made a triumphal entry into modern painting in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition with Claude Monet's Impression, Soleil Levant.

In the early 2000s, the city of Oslo began to redevelop the sagging industrial port of Bjørvika, replacing its rusted containers and ships with office buildings, schools, and blockbuster museums.

But the future of this remarkable place, known as The Meeting of Waters (or Encontro das à guas) is being called into question by a new industrial port which threatens to pollute the rivers and disrupt wildlife — prompting environmentalists to rise in its defense.The Meeting of Waters marks the spot where the brown, murky waters of the Solimões mixes with the dark torrent of the Rio Negro near the northern capital of Manuas, converging to form the Amazon river proper.

Driven in part by booming global trade, particularly with China, industrial port areas led by Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., are absorbing an influx of warehouse and distribution facilities.

Vacancy rates for industrial port - centric properties are at record lows.

Port Chester is historically a major industrial port.

For Stranded Assets (2017), the artist's contribution to the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Lewitt arranged the loan and display of a set of decorative lamps found in the stairwell of a recently decommissioned power plant in Venice's industrial port of Marghera.

It was in a small campsite outside of the industrial port town of Pozzallo in southern Sicily that we met Mr Santo.

After a short but heavy rain shower I arrive in Matanzas, an industrial port town.

Bilbao Once known primarily as an industrial port city, Bilbao has reinvented herself as a center for modern art and architecture.

In the distance you are also able to see the industrial port in Guayaquil City.

This industrial port town located just under two hours north of Sydney is the largest coal - exporting harbor in the world, and for far too long, it had a...

This industrial port town located just under two hours north of Sydney is the largest coal - exporting harbor in the world, and for far too long, it had a pretty grimy reputation.

In Freeport, the activities are spread out so you'll need transportation to reach them (the cruise ships dock in an industrial port rather than next to a beautiful beach).

Ships arrive in an industrial port, so you have to have transportation to see anything — Like Costa Maya and Grand Turk, Freeport was not much of a tourist destination until cruise lines built a pier on the island.

The island has a large shipbuilding presence in their industrial port (you're likely to see other ships getting renovated while you're here) and the cruise pier is located close to this industrial port.

For Stranded Assets, Lewitt obtained a set of lamps found in the stairwell of the recently decommissioned Giuseppe Volpi thermoelectric power plant in Venice's industrial port of Marghera.

Arnaud believes it's a fascinating beach, surrounded by working class communities that give a nod to Estonia's communist past; an industrial port with abandoned warehouses to the east and richer suburbs and wealthy gated properties on the western side that show a more prosperous country today.

The motif of the industrial port triumphantly burst into modern painting in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition, in the painting Impression, Rising Sun, painted by Claude Monet in Le Havre.

As the active bee colony interacts with the piano chords, the piece becomes a sound installation, as well as an homage to nineteenth - century Astoria which was once a major industrial port and hub of piano manufacturing.