Sentences with phrase «modern urban houses»

I infinitely prefer square rooms, but so few modern urban houses have them.

Not exact matches

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

In a speech at the Progressive Policy - Institute, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made a remarkable statement about what community means for «a modern, big American city and its relationship with a big Washington bureaucracy.»

A year - long study into the behaviour of over 450 blue tits and great tits found that a suburban neighbourhood with trees, shrubs and hedges between properties attract far more birds to their feeders than a Victorian urban terrace or manicured, modern housing estate.

The same is true if you assume that the essentially urban lifestyle of modern country dwellers, with their energy - hungry cars and houses, is the only rural life possible.

Can't we work full - time, live in urban apartments / houses, enjoy meals with our guests (even if we don't cook), and find ways to make our modern lifestyles work via creative means without feeling like social or economic failures?

6:00 a.m.: Uphill hike to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

Machu Picchu, the stone city, built by the Inca Pachakuteq, is now one of the Modern World's Seven Wonders, protected by the Young Mountain; the impressive Waynapicchu, situated among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of buildings, such as the Main Square, groups of houses, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, where ceremonial places stand out, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), the Temple of the Three Windows, the Sacred Temple, etc., and all of this built with an incredible urban harmony, in such a hostile place, demonstrating the advanced development level of Incan engineering.

Ride up on a tourist bus, to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

Tourist bus ride up to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

Housed in the new wing of Lynnaya Urban River Resort & Spa, building on the ground in modern Khmer style facing to garden or swimming pool.

Uphill tourist bus ride to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

7:00 a.m.: Tourist bus ride up to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

«In Montparnasse,» it continued, «we see social housing in pracice, the epitome of the modern urban envirnonment and a wistful reminder of how the reality of Modernist architecture parted ways with its socially - minded ideology... Gursky is able to achieve a powerful sense of both alienation and individuality, which leaves us feeling the prime symptom of the modern world: the fear of being alone.»

Speaking of the local buildings, he said: «Here, typically Spanish living styles, with flat - roofed houses white or brightly coloured, blend with the need to want to represent, at least hypothetically, the urban sprawl of the great European capital, with modern tourist residences, impersonal and very similar to each other built in the middle of unspoiled places or at the very tourist beach resorts.

Other solo exhibitions have been presented at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1970); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970); The Kitchen, New York (1973); P.S. 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (1978, 1983); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1979); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1984); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1989); The Drawing Center, New York (1994); Kunsthaus Bregenz (1999); Neue National Galerie, Berlin (2002); Lever House, New York (2003, 2008); Arts Club of Chicago (2005); Artclub 1563, Seoul (2010); Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge (2010); BMW Museum, Munich (2012); Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana (2014); Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice (2015); Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont (2015); and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2016).

-- Opera Campana dei Caduti — Rovereto - Italy Fishwick Papers — The Smokehouse Gallery — London MAGNET OPEN ART PROJECT — Concord, New Hampshire — USA RARITIES — Hastings / Brighton 13 ELP Annual Exhibition — Triangle Gallery — London Show Me The Monet — Royal College of Art — produced by BBC Dreams — The Freud Museum — London LightBite 2011 — Nottingham — UK Type / Script — Chapel Gallery — Ormskirk 2010 Artisti Mitteleuropei 2010 — Casa della Cultura — Calitri (AV)-- Italy Wishing — ArteOra Spazio Arte Contemporanea — Foggia — Italy The Public Are Not Invited — The Nottingham Workshop - UK ELP Box Set 2010 Launch — 242 Gallery — London 6 × 4 Postcard Exhibition — Yorkshire ArtSpace — Sheffield Link — ArteOra Gallery — group show curated by Maria Vinella — Foggia — Italy Penang International Printmaking Exhibition — Penang State Museum — Malaysia Freud Experience — solo exhibition — Freud Café Gallery — London A Suite of Lighted Rooms — Pushkin House Centre for Russian Culture - London Acqua Bene Comune — Foggia — Italy Twelve — Space Gallery — London Print for Peace 2010 — Arte AC Tecnologico Institute — Monterrey — Mexico Prize Winner — «Copertine al Tratto» 2010 — Subway Edizioni — Milan — Italy C'era una volta Pasolini — group show — Galleria Terre Rare — Bologna — Italy F.A.C.T.S. — Center for the Study in Political Graphics — Los Angeles — USA London Fashion Week — MariaFrancesca Pepe collection — Somerset House — London 2009 The Grand Plasto - Baader - Books — Kaleid Gallery — London Alexandria MiniPrint Biennal — Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center — Egypt Segni 20 × 20 — Micro Macro Gallery — Turin One Night Only — group show — Shoreditch Town Hall — London Quijiang International Print Festival 2009 — Quijian — China Eco Art Project ’09 — Rome IMPACT Centerpiece 09 — SpikePrint Studio — Bristol Pasquale Siniscalco Gallery — Milan Estetica 09 — Church of S.S. Annunziata — Calitri (AV)-- Italy Premio Spazi Evasi ’09 — Francavilla al Mare (CH) Unplug — Solo show — EstremaDura Café Gallery — Verbania — Italy Eleven — ELP Group show — Banside Gallery — London Ex Libris — Group show — Meliusz Center — Debrecen — Hungary 2nd Guanlan International Print Biennial — Guanlan Museum — Shenzen — China Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts — Museum of Humour and Satire — Gabrovo — Bulgaria Sorry If I'm Not in Line — Factory - Art Contemporanea — Trieste Ex Libris Mini Print Biennal — Sint Niklaas Dienst Museum — Belgium CDO's and Double Clubs — August Art Space — London Adreanlina 09 — Former Jewish Fish Market — Rome Wonderland — Brothers Grimm Museum — Kessel — Germany Vigna degli Artisti 09 2008 Light One Night — Group Show — ArteOra Gallery — Foggia — Italy Temptation — Group show — Cupola Gallery — Sheffield Urban Jungle — Group show — London City Hall Orange Calls Italy - Shortlisted for the final group show — PolarExpo Space — Bergamo ArteIngenua Second Act — ArteIngenua prize 08 — Guido Iemmi Art Studio — Milan — Italy Concorso Fumetto Giovani 2008 Jury Prize — illustration — Museum of Modern Art — Foggia — Italy Second Impressions — Romford Art Institute — Essex E17 Art Trail — Kelmscott School — walthamstow — London Sustainability — Latajaka Gallery — Warsaw — Poland Wonderland — Deutsches Maerchen und Wesersagen Museum — Bad Oeynhausen — Germany Lessedra International Mini Print — Lessedra Contemporary Art Gallery — Sofia — Bulgaria Evento MUSAE 08 — Museo Urbano Sperimentale Arte Emegente — Tourism Palace — Jesolo (VE) Decarbonart — Greater London City Hall — London — curated by Katja Rosenberg Art Fusion — Live painting performance — The Hub — Aldgate East — London I Am Ten — Bankside Gallery — London 2007 Tetovo IV International Biennial — Museum of Tetovo Area — Republic of Macedonia Dontpanic Design Exhibition — 93 Feet East — London Less Common Event — The Arts Gallery — Bond Street — London Shortlisted for San Fedele Visual Arts Prize — San Fedele Gallery — Milan — Italy Media Poster exhibition — DontPanicMedia — Cargo — Shoreditch — London Museo Urbano Sperimentale Artisti Emergenti — Motta Monte Corvino — Italy PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR 2007 — START SOMA gallery and CSPG Center for the Study of Political Graphics Los Angeles — Phoenix Hotel — San Francisco World Annual Print Show — Lessedra Contemporary Art Gallery — Sofia - Bulgaria Triangle Artists Open Studios — Arts Unwrapped 2007 — Hackney — London Innovative — Don't Panic Media, Playstation Season — Manchester International Festival 2007 PRE: CURSORI 2007 — Aragona Castle Museum Gallery of Taranto — Italian Ministry of Culture Illustration group show — Literature Department Gallery — Florence University Draw Drawing 2 — Foundry Gallery — Shoreditch — London — London Biennale 2006 2006 Italian Factory 2006 — Finalist in the competition — Casa del Pane Gallery — Milan XHIBIT ’06 — The Arts Gallery — Holborn — London Alhambra Café Gallery — Aldgate East — London Secuestro Express — ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts — London Cinderella» s shoe — Ascoli Piceno — Italy 2005 In the city: Eye for Art — Curator Space Gallery — London From here to here — London Design Festival — London Those Who Wonder — London College of Communication — London Ofcom Office of Communications — Riverside House Southwark — London 2004 The Sound of Print — Symposium — Victoria and Albert Museum — London Ad Fab — Solo painting exhibition — Red Gate Gallery — London Berlin Design Mai — In collaboration with Shift Magazine — Germany Conversation — London College of Communications — London 2003 Ichiza Project — in collaboration with Crossroad Works

The resurgence of modern prefab is presented as an alternative to new urban development — homes that are refreshing, honest and complimentary to their historical counterparts — considering their relevance to affordable housing and parallel with the green building movement.

This similar freedom of access in the Bow House is accentuated by the fact that this modern, urban bothy can be entered not by a door, but by an open passageway that leads to a ladder going up.

Because tonight my husband of 43 years and I were commenting that we're decorating our new, year old house, in a more urban (rustic modern) style and not exactly reflective of the stereotypes of over 60 «folks.»

As here, the modern house called Urban Green also applies these materials... Read More