Sentences with phrase «into cultural hubs»

He designed a bar in the shape of a gargantuan belly - down heron surrounded by cracked egg furniture which spans the length of the 32nd floor Nante's panoramic Tour Bretagne as part of a city initiative to revitalize neglected urban spaces into cultural hubs.

UPDATED, 5:01 p.m., April 9: The City Council today unanimously approved Young Woo & Associates» plan to transform Pier 57, a historic pier located at 14th Street and the Hudson River, into a cultural hub and creative center.

Venice went on to channel its fear and suffering into art and design, building breathtaking architecture such as the Basilica di san Marco and laying the foundations for the city to turn into the cultural hub it is today.

Few architectural projects can hope to mimic the much - touted «Bilbao effect»: the fairy - tale transformation of a weary, post-industrial area into a cultural hub.

For Bloomberg Philanthropies» 2018 Public Art Challenge, the City of Gary, IN transformed an underutilized downtown building into a cultural hub that showcases visual and culinary arts.

The art that shaped China into the cultural hub of the Far East has always been a symbol of the ongoing fight of the opposites: the fight of the old with the new, the native and the foreign.

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«His holistic set of skills and intimate knowledge of wine hospitality are going to help elevate Charles Krug into an even greater visitor experience and cultural hub for Napa Valley.»

Its future as an energy hub, its diverse cultural background and its large population, would turn the EU into a truly global actor.

From New York to London and from Barcelona to LA, our fabulous contributing writers come from all around the globe giving you insight into trends right from their own cultural hubs.

After a cultural revival in the 60s, in which hundreds of Indian and Pakistani textile workers came to live and work in Leicester, the city has blossomed into a lively, multicultural hub in central England.

The Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that the new initiative will transform local libraries into modern information and cultural hubs, adding that citizens» access to the service will be via the internet with a single electronic... [Read more...]

The Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that the new initiative will transform local libraries into modern information and cultural hubs, adding that citizens» access to the service will be via the internet with a single electronic library ticket.

King's Cross: London's new culture quarter The cultural train has well and truly pulled into a gentrified King's Cross, with the area destined to become a hub for art lovers and a serious rival to the South Bank.

Our itinerary divides your trip into three sections: one in South Bali on one of the island's famous beach resorts, one in the cultural hub of Ubud, and the final leg exploring the west and north of Bali.

In addition to transforming abandoned buildings into vibrant art spaces and cultural hubs, Gates has an experimental blues band called the Black Monks of Mississippi.

Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, as well as a campus in Utica, New York (PrattMWP College of Art and Design), Pratt has an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.

McGraw's notable accomplishments at the Bemis Center include working with artist and cultural planner Theaster Gates and Rebuild Foundation to renovate Carver Bank — the site of the first African American - owned bank in Omaha — into exhibition and performance spaces and artist studios, making the site a hub for the creative and public life of its neighborhood and community.

Notable galleries for 2014 include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.

Since he began work on his now famed Dorchester Projects in 2009, Gates's transformation of a once - neglected South Side neighborhood into a thriving cultural hub has yielded an enclave of buildings that offer an array of cultural programming, from gardening to youth art classes to Black Cinema.

Zeitlin's antiquarian bookshop in Los Angeles — a cultural hub that survived into the 1980s — included a small gallery space for the showing of artworks, primarily prints and drawings, and it is there in 1929 that Landacre's first prints were exhibited.

Located in the cultural hub of New York City with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with esteemed professors and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.

Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.

He's turned vacant homes into cultural spaces and transformed a former housing project into a mixed - income residential and arts hub.

Cleveland has been able to transform itself into diversified cultural business hub.

Because New York faces so many unique cybersecurity threats as an international business hub and a dense cultural epicenter, the city could provide a compelling model for other metropolitan areas looking to take their cyber problems into their own hands.