Sentences with phrase «north facade»

Green features of The Q include rooftop solar panels that power common areas, low - E glazing, and operable windows that allow for light and air to enter the building through «gill slits,» or angled fins, on the building's north facade.

A burst of shocking pink climbs the Whitney's north facade in Mary Heilmann: Sunset, a site - specific installation that inaugurates the Museum's largest outdoor gallery and transforms it into a site of reverie, memory, and leisure.

Taking on monumental sculpture, site - specific interventions on top of and in between private buildings, lamppost banners, and bus shelters, this project engages a diverse range of sites in all five boroughs, including a large scale installation on the North facade of The Cooper Union's iconic Foundation Building.

North facade of the historical building of the Nelson - Atkins Museum, designed by Wight & Wight Architects in the early»30s; photo: Jeff Fudge

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I wonder why any real Arsenal supporters would want to disrupt the preparations for such an important North London Derby by projecting «Wenger Out» onto the facades of Highbury, The Emirates and Marble Arch last night.

Kreisler is hoping to join in the Wicker Park revival with the redevelopment of the North Avenue Baths, a 1919 - vintage former public Russian bathhouse with an ornate terra cotta facade at 2039 W. North Ave.

But Samsø is a small, rustic island — just four miles across at its widest point, and 16 miles from Nordby in the north to Brattingborg, the estate at the southern end governed by a stately mansion with fairy - tale turrets and ivy crawling up its brick facade.

Buildings in a Mediterranean - continental climate like in Spain suffer in winter energy losses through their north and east facades due to low temperatures.

These new components are: the Link, which lightly touches the adjacent listed facade to provide a connection between the new extension and the rest of the school as well as a new library; the Reception / Teaching Wing, providing a smaller scale environment for younger children; and the Main Teaching Wing to the north, set around the verdant Dell, and accommodating a new hall below.

This impressive structure replicates the Norman architecture of medieval Europe with a massive stone facade and imposing towers and turrets — an unlikely vision to behold in upstate New York, just 30 minutes north of Manhattan.

And yet behind this glitzy facade, a bohemian character endures, with rickety warungs (cheap eating houses) and reggae joints surviving between the cocktail tables, and quiet retreats dotting the much - less - busy north coast.

Such facades have now been found at other sites including Lamanai and, perhaps La Milpa in Belize, Kinal and Uaxactim in Guatemala and Kohunlich in Mexico, just north of the Belize border.

The facade of Cooper Union's original building — where Abraham Lincoln gave the address that drove him to the presidency in 1860 — has been retrofitted with five chain - link baffles that turn its north portico into a prison yard.

Behind the classical facade of a former Methodist chapel in north London lurks a curious critique of urban architecture and design.

The double glazing system on Ecolaboratory's north and east facades gives superior insulation value and natural lighting to reduce heating and lighting loads, while intentional heat gain on the south and west faces activates the greenhouses and drive the stack - effect.

Oriented so that the main facades face north and south, the home is positioned to minimize solar heat gain and take advantage of natural sea breezes.

Each facade orientation will have particular adjustments to protect the apartments from the different intensities of the Argentine sun: the north will deal with vertical midday sun, the east against mild morning sun, the west with strong afternoon sun (which can melt you in the summer), while the south facade will have to invite as much sunlight as possible.

In addition, recent improvements, such as elaborate window designs, vaulted ceilings, rounded corners, stone facades, and taped - and - textured marriage lines (where pieces fit together), explain why their appeal is growing, according to Scott Mills, a salesperson with RE / MAX — Properties North, Colorado Springs, Colo., who started showing and listing manufactured homes about two years ago.

«We started by ripping off the facade on the west and north sides,» says Carl Oslund, president of Oslund Design.

For example, construction has begun on the west wing facade and will be followed by the start of the north wing renovation.

The owners» grandmother lived in the north wing until the end of the Fifties, when structural instability, caused by the later addition of the Gothic facade, meant that she had to move out.