Sentences with phrase «obelisk monument»

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Upon arrival at Batlle & Ordoñez Park, a photo stop is made at the La Carreta monument (Covered Wagon) before resuming your drive past the Obelisk and Soccer Stadium, and on to the residential area of Carrasco.

Meanwhile, a like monument in Egypt is said to be the same as it was the day the New York obelisk was borne away.

Buenos Aires has the layout of a European capital — with the grand avenues cutting through the city, impressive monuments like the Obelisk, visible from far away.

The theater stands near Plaza de la República, a square on Avenida 9 de Julio where you can see the Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires), a 1936 monument to honor the foundation of the city.

We will begin with the ancient Hippodrome, which was the scene of chariot raoes, with the three monuments: the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine.

A sparkly arrival to Washington DC's sober National Mall, David Adjaye's new museum building stands like a startling golden crown, erupting from the lawn between the slender obelisk of the Washington monument and the blank stone mausoleum of the National Museum of American History.

The obelisk is a classic Egyptian motif symbolizing the connection between heaven and earth, and Calle's monument can be viewed as a conduit, forging connections across time and generations — uniting us through shared human commonalities, including our inescapable universal end.

Make that a mockery of a monument, for in Doris C. Freedman plaza, at the park's southeast corner, Damián Ortega sets out an undersized obelisk on a pitifully tiny platform.

In 1964, the artist staged temporary interventions with living animals, and in 1975 she made an Obelisk of Sweet Bread, that models the national monument in the ephemeral material.

The sculptures that compose Whites take the form of anthropomorphic obelisks — bone - like shrunken monuments with eye sockets and nostrils cast from human skulls.

Obelisk II, a construction of pool queues, embodies Benjamin H.D. Buchloh's definition of contemporary sculpture as an exercise in articulation between the tradition of the monument and the industrial object.

Each has eye sockets or nostrils cast from human skulls sunk into its smooth surface, simultaneously recalling Barnett Newman's eponymous monument (Broken Obelisk, 1963 — 67) and a decrepit, hooded figure.