Sentences with phrase «industrial wasteland»

Rehabilitation was a major theme of the meeting, held in the former industrial wasteland of east London's docklands area, adjacent to the site of the new stadium for this year's Olympic Games.

New park facilities planned for 1999 include the completion of a 12 - acre park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public use.

In the film, based on a true story, Morgan plays a detective transplanted from New York who teams with a local investigator (Sam Worthington) to work on a series of unsolved murders in industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast refineries, where as many as 70 bodies turned up over the past two decades.

The Art Newspaper reported last week that Hiorns has identified a patch of industrial wasteland at Icknield Port Loop, a canal - side regeneration site in Birmingham for the project, which he hopes to stage next Summer.

Jerry Barrish has a beachfront home in Pacifica and a studio located in the former industrial wasteland of Dogpatch, amidst the burgeoning gentrification of coffee houses, restaurants and other meeting places of the newly arrived technocratic bourgeoisie beginning to populate the neighborhood.

Constructed on industrial wasteland left over from a steelworks, Rockingham first opened in January 2001, and became one of only a few purpose - built racetracks in the country — and the first banked oval built since Brooklands, in 1907.

Set in the gritty industrial wasteland of the Scottish coast, Nesbø's Macbeth turns «the Scottish play» — Shakespeare's definitive exposition on the thirst for power — into a violent police procedural.

Called Riders of the Rustlands, the DLC pack offers new tracks set in «abandoned industrial wastelands», challenges and Track Editor objects.

The grimy, sludgy synthwave of the music mirrors the equally washed out, grey industrial wastelands each battle takes place on.

You'll play as a cat - like slug creature that can nimbly climb, jump, and slip through every crack and crater of this rusting industrial wasteland.

Breach: Inspired by the corrosion of a post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland, the Call of Duty: Black Ops II Breach Personalization Pack comes loaded with a distressed weapon skin, three uniquely - shaped reticles, and an all - new Calling Card.

His drawings, collages, comics and prints take the viewer into a super colorful intergalactic industrial wasteland with a frenetic style of mark making that is hypnotic and enchanting.

Fences and glare mark an actual industrial wasteland in photographs by Christina McPhee, with something of the same combination of luxuriance and terror.

The Dashanzi 798 arts zone in the northeast of the city was once a military industrial wasteland of Bauhaus - style buildings by East German architects built as part of a Socialist unification strategy in the 1950s.

Dilapidated buildings, ominous skyscapes, and industrial wastelands merge to construct unsettling apocalyptic - like landscapes.

In the expansive industrial wastelands just beyond Birmingham city centre is Digbeth, the social hub and heart of the Birmingham art scene.

Turning peaceful and idyllic rural communities into industrial wastelands sticks in the craw of even life's most grizzled -LSB-...]

The peaceful and prosperous places where these things get speared end up as Orwellian industrial wastelands, with uninhabitable homes and deep - seated anger directed at those who elected to take their 30 pieces of silver, in exchange for the very soul of their once tight - knit communities.

Readers can order a discounted copy today to get ready for the live chat with the authors on June 13 at 3 pm Eastern.READ A REVIEW: 4 Key Lessons Learned From The Death and Rebirth of Monterey Bay The Death and Life of Monterey Bay outlines the unique history of the place — which went from pristine marine paradise to ravaged industrial wasteland, only to be revitalized years later — and demonstrates how the efforts of individuals can have a major impact on the environment.

Eric Maundu is farming on the contaminated industrial wastelands of West Oakland with his company Kijani Grows.

For those readers familiar with Toronto, it's a new urban park that sits on the west bank of the Don River, just south of King Street — on lands that 25 years ago, were considered to be irredeemable industrial wasteland.

He sets out to find his daughter, only to find himself in a world torn between silent secrets and a dark, industrial wasteland of horrors.

The Garden State is rarely thought as such by visitors traveling the northern section of the New Jersey Turnpike that sits amid an industrial wasteland, so a measure of disbelief may be appropriate upon learning that New Jersey ranked No. 1 in the Quality Of Life category of America's Top States For Businessfor the second year running.

Drilling operations have turned some of Texas's most affluent communities into industrial wastelands.

It's also very cleanly produced, being manufactured in the USA in a Good Manufacturing Practises compliant facility, rather than the industrial wastelands of China.

With Manufactured Landscapes, Baichwal looks at the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, an artist who shoots landscapes of industrial wastelands that reveal men to be astonishingly productive beasts — and destructive, too, in the same procreative stroke.

Zwigoff also proves himself with a deliberate visual style that evokes the panels of a comic book (though the Ghost World comic was in black and white), as well as the industrial wasteland at the outskirts of any city: strip malls, porno shops and overall dingy, dirty cars, streets and people.

It is hard to believe you are in New Jersey, that industrial wasteland between Philadelphia and New York!

Leading Queens from its former status as an industrial wasteland to its current reputation as an arts district, Noguchi Museum has two levels and a rooftop terrace used as exhibition spaces for the astonishing Japanese art and gardens of Isamu Noguchi.

But with cities, almost all you see are industrial wastelands and urbanized jungles waiting to leech the beauty out of any landscape.

The dynamic duo will be able to explore three new locations, the industrial wasteland of Outer Outlet, the expansive mansion of Hazard House and the drowned clock tower of Ravaged Riverfront.

REGiONRAT, a coming - of - age drama based on the novel by Richard Laskowski: Ray lives in the Region, an industrial wasteland in Northwestern Indiana.

There's no official information, but I think it's maybe that world's kind of industrial wasteland.

«Edward Burtynsky's grandly scaled photographs of industrial wastelands and detritus radiate a beauty as fearsome as it is spectacular.

The area became an industrial wasteland, earning it the moniker Hell's Hundred Acres.

Formerly an deserted neighborhood of factories, these pioneers turned the industrial wasteland into a cultural destination.

Formerly a deserted neighborhood of factories, these pioneers turned the industrial wasteland into a cultural destination.

Their visual power gives to Sherman's landscapes, Pool and Hole III, the effect of toxic testaments to an industrial wasteland.

There it was: a vintage Cadillac encased in a massive shell of concrete, sitting in an industrial wasteland on Chicago's West Side, ceding its precarious nature as art even further to dirt and moss built up along the passenger and driver sides, patches obtrusively mismatched and I - beam crutches crudely pushed underneath its chassis — irredeemable, one imagines, even to the entropic vision of Robert Smithson.

His lens - based tableaux often feature a mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and industrial wasteland as their backdrop.

Attracted to industrial wastelands, rock quarries and fringe landscapes, his works of the late 1960s broke with conventional notions of sculpture.

Jonathan has been living in China since 2003 and in his job as the Asian reporter for the Guardian has traveled from mountain paradises to industrial wastelands, visiting tiger farms, melting glaciers, cancer villages, science parks, coal mines, and eco-cities.

At the same time, they haven't lost sight of what stands to be lost in environmental and financial terms as the desert is transformed from wilderness to industrial wasteland.

However, and as I mentioned at that meeting, the chances of my joining were still remote; a major issue being that my wife was less than lukewarm about the idea of moving to what she probably imagined was a dark, cold, industrial wasteland, not dissimilar to some of Lowry's works.