Sentences with phrase «many architectural ruins»

In January 2013, beneath layers of architectural ruins in Rome's Palatine Hill, Jansen examined something of a treasure among toilets: a chamber likely to be the loo that slaves in Nero's palace would have frequented 2,000 years ago.

Then venture to Papantla, a well - known Mexican village famous for its pre-Columbian architectural ruins and centuries - old vanilla farms.

There are many architectural ruins that you will pass by, before reaching the cliff - edge that gives you the breathtaking views of the Playa Paradiso.

In Arrival of the Ram King - Paradise Lost II zebra centaurs cavort within architectural ruins beneath a sunset of dazzling intensity.

Her sources are many, amongst others - baroque art, history, architectural ruins, natural sciences and theatre.

Dilapidated modernist buildings and architectural ruins are the source material, literally, for Indian artist Tanya Goel's monumental abstract paintings.

Architectural ruins was a common subject for 18th - and 19th - century artists and an especially favored theme among the Romanticists; Farm Security Administration photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange are known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression; and most recently, an obsession with photographing urban decay has sparked an entire genre dubbed «ruin porn.»

AMPA has a concession over a 145,000 hector forest on foothills of the Amazon prized for its biological diversity and architectural ruins.

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Among them were the massive foundations of the first Iron Age sanctuary, numerous monumental architectural fragments of the Roman main temple, but also the extensive ruins of an important Byzantine monastery which was built by followers of the Christian faith after the fall of the ancient sanctuary.

It is simply a cool action movie and while the movie is not without its faults (I particularly missed the architectural fetishism of the Tim Burton movies and some fight scenes are shot up real close so that you can't always see just what the heck is happening) it is like seeing your favourite comic book title being written and drawn by some guys with an understanding of the character involved for a change after seeing it being ruined by some talentless hacks.

Siem Reap offers the magnificent Temples of Angkor, ancient ruins that are a display of architectural complexity and grandeur unlike anything else in the world.

All the architectural sites are looking pretty good for their age and would delight anyone who loves messing about in ruins.

The gardens ancient architectural elements and ruins have been integrated to create spaces that are formal yet simple.

Psalidi's close proximity to Kos means that you can enjoy all the great sightseeing opportunities from ancient ruins and different architectural styles such as the imposing castle that sits above Kos Town.

History enthusiasts will discover an equally varied architectural landscape in Croatia, from Roman ruins to Venetian villages, from Byzantine churches to Austro - Hungarian Baroque masterpieces.

Xunantunich Mayan Ruin — «El Castillo» adorned with an expressive architectural frieze is the tallest structure at the site (approx. 130 feet) and is visible for miles around.

You will wind your way past Incan ruins, tunnels, settlements, and architectural wonders along the way.

The ruins contain impressive and beautiful architectural designs and have a rugged feel, which I loved.

I enjoyed admiring the incredible architectural design of El Castillo, before we moved on to explore more ruins.

It will cover the architectural and historical highlights of this colonial city with a behind - the - scenes look at some of the ruined churches, convents and cathedrals.

This tour will cover the architectural and historical highlights of this colonial city with a behind - the - scenes look at some of the many ruined churches, convents and cathedrals.

The structures within the ruins site consist of a variety of interesting and unique architectural styles (my favourite is the detailed Puuc - style which can be seen on the Iglesia and the Monastery structures).

And so, like Crystal Palace's «architectural» dinosaurs they stand, amongst metal ruins of another time, not as representations, but symbols, both creatures and artefacts all at once.

Combining elements of the found, the photographic, the cinematic, the architectural, and the social, Gaillard provokes visual or associative connections between ancient ruins and neglected contemporary spaces, attempting to recuperate the past in the name of a devalued present.

These imagined ruins, restored memory and archaeological (re) creation are made of various materials, from bas - reliefs, to monumental architectural sculptures evoking the doors and structures of the subterranean, here constructed in polystyrene, polished aluminium, plaster and cement.

The Primitives Series, first seen at the Venice Architectural Biennial in 2010, draw on the facade of ruined landscapes; with rocks piling up and falling apart to create a series of unique yet similar chairs and tables.

Her work has the structural appeal of crisp architectural blueprints but is permeated by the aesthetic allure of a rusted ruin.

His quasi-apocalyptic landscapes — finely rendered paintings which border on architectural schematic — travel through time into recent and distant futures, and imagine the inevitable collapse of global infrastructures into ruin.

The hotel in question, a neighbor to the ruins of the Mayan city Palenque, becomes a subject of jargon - filled architectural dissection: a contemporary ruin transported to the University of Utah via slide projection and Smithson's voice.

Recent work interweaves ruins, architectural ornaments and botanical forms, focusing the subjects on loss, extinction and the beautiful tenacity of nature.

There, we learn from the exhibition's opening wall text, the two amassed a large collection of pre-Columbian artifacts and studied the geometric volumes of the architectural and sculptural ruins of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

The environment comprises a number of floating architectural platforms linked by long braids of dark hair and what might be umbilical cords; these at once evoke postindustrial ruins and Matrix-esque constructions.

Vermont - based Sage Lewis painstakingly constructs architectural models and then crushes them, photographing the ruins from various vantage points in order to show divergent views of the same structure.

Her exhibit, «The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C.,» at the Corcoran Gallery of Art offers a glimpse into a version of the future where the human race has long been extinct, the Earth is populated only by ruins, and aliens interested in the «architectural legacy of the Earth's former inhabitants» can take a tour of what was once the capital of the United States.

In a sort of private system of reconstruction, Peris juxtaposes found stones, debris, ruins of architectural structures — both ancient and modern — in order to construct his poetical megaliths (Dolmen), with their graceful levity compensating the gravity and weight of their material of origin.

Following her architectural projects she continued working on a large scale, creating dramatic displays in the midst of ancient ruins.

We spoke with architectural restorer James Boorstein to find out the common mistakes that lead to wood's ruin.