Sentences with phrase «long turbine hall»

Far from being overawed by the biggest and most frightening gallery space in the world, Eliasson has effectively doubled the height of the 155 - metre (508ft) long Turbine Hall by mirroring the ceiling.

Not exact matches

In 1995 Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron were appointed to convert the Bankside Power Station for this purpose; their vision was structured around the building's original features — a magnificent turbine hall of 35 metres high and 152 metres long, as well as a boiler house and central chimney.

Here was everything we had hoped to make — a place where people could enter the drama at the door, heading down the slope inside to an inconceivably long, wide room, the Turbine Hall.

The Turbine Hall is 500ft long and 75ft wide but, like Louise Bourgeois, Juan Muñoz and Anish Kapoor before him (the first three artists in the Unilever Series), Eliasson refused to be intimidated by this hungry maw.

The 167 - meter - long fissure the artist produced in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2007 is exemplary of the antimonumental conceptual and physical aggressiveness she is capable of conveying.

In 2007 she was commissioned to produce a piece for Tate modern's Turbine Hall; the result, Shibboleth, was a 548 - foot - long crack in the floor.

Significant international exhibitions include The Blind Pavilion, Danish Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2003); The Weather Project, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2003); Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2007); Olafur Eliasson: Contact, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014); and Nothingness Is Not Nothing At All, Long Museum, Shanghai (2016).

Skate the Sky Film 35 mm film print of clouds in the sky covered with ink, Ho - HoÍs, and Melon juice — filmstrips taped to Tate Turbine Hall ramp and skateboarded over using ollie, kick flip, pop shove - it, acid drop, melon grab, crooked grind, bunny hop, tic tacs, sex change, disco flip — skateboarding performed live for Long Weekend by Thomas Lock, Louis Henderson, Charlotte Brennan, Dion Penman, Sam Griffin, Jak Tonge, Evin Goode and Quantin Paris, clouds shot by Peter West 2009

Entrance to the Tate Modern building is down a wide ramp that descends to the bottom of the Turbine Hall, a gargantuan interior space — 500 feet long, 115 feet high — that housed the generators of the long - decommissioned powerhouse.

Steel truss - work beneath the long skylight overhead, the slot windows in the end walls and the illuminated «light boxes» the architects have attached to the Turbine Hall's north wall cleanse the enormous interior's factorylike, almost prisonlike air, rather than deny it.

Shortly after his long - term collaborator Philippe Parreno converted London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall into an all - quivering, all - quaking aquatic organism, Huyghe has turned his attention to a former ice - skating rink in the northwest of the city.

The Tate Turbine Hall stole Saatchi's thunder long ago and is today the definitive arena of culture as spectacle.

German artist Carsten Holler has built a series of long, curving slides inside the gallery's cavernous Turbine Hall — named for its previous role as a power station.

The problem with the turbine hall is its vast size, but also the awkwardness of the space, approached, as it is, by a long ramp and bisected by a dark bridge and stairs.

Skate the Sky Film (35 mm film print of clouds in the sky covered with ink, Ho - Ho's, and Melon juice - filmstrips taped to Tate Turbine Hall ramp and skateboarded over using ollie, kick flip, pop shove - it, acid drop, melon grab, crooked grind, bunny hop, tic tacs, sex change, disco flip - skateboarding performed live for Long Weekend by Thomas Lock, Louis Henderson, Charlotte Brennan, Dion Penman, Sam Griffin, Jak Tonge, Evin Goode and Quantin Paris, clouds shot by Peter West), 2009

A 250ft - long (75m) wind turbine blade is being erected in Queen Victoria Square, between the Ferens Art Gallery, City Hall and the Maritime Museum.