Sentences with phrase «large slabs of concrete»

Last summer we hosted Guillaume Leblon, a French artist who pulled large slabs of concrete and earth from around the Poor Farm property, installing them in the main gallery.

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The «Béton Brut» Paris tour starts with a concrete slab of Cité des 4000, leads through the round towers of Les Choux de Créteil, cité Curial — the largest estate in Paris, leading onto the Orgues de Flandre high - rise towers, and concludes with a classic example of post-war Brutalism, the Centre National de la Danse.

Visitors are given the feeling of choice and movement in the opportunity to move the concrete balls that comprise the analogue series, but they are still contained within the oppressive omnipotence of the large concrete slabs (and are also moved back to a specific space by gallery staff after: interaction, within limits).

Three large arrangements of concrete slabs: education (working title), health (working title), and home (working title) dominate the gallery space and while visitors are invited to approach and touch the sculptures their scale resists any immediate comprehension.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

Concrete upper floors are typically hollowcore; precast slabs are craned into place on top of blockwork, but because Whiriskey wanted an open plan layout downstairs, that approach would have involved large amounts of structural steel in the slabs, which in turn would have had a major impact on cost.

Many contractors advise laying concrete in large, square slabs to reduce the frequency of cracking, but it's the go - to for appearance and value.

We've currently got our builder grade 8» x8 ′ slab of concrete, but I'm dreaming of a larger paver patio.