Sentences with phrase «of bedsits»

For this couple, restoring a Victorian townhouse back into a family house after it was chopped into a series of bedsits, was a loving act that speaks to their passion for design and details.

Novels also give you tiny details you didn't even know you needed — how a telephone worked in a house of bedsits, for example.

With interiors reminiscent of a bedsit from the 1970s, the peeling wallpaper, stained sofas and bright orange bar all add to the retro fun.

In 2009, Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his critically acclaimed work, Seizure, a massive crystallization within the interior of a bedsit in a condemned South London council estate.

In 2009, Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his critically acclaimed work, Seizure, a massive crystallization within the interior of a bedsit in a condemned South London council es - tate.

The idea was already fully formed; Ghost, an appropriately spectral cast of a bedsit room in North London, was the obvious starting point for what would eventually become House: as Whiteread explains, «I'd finished [Ghost] and thought, «Ooh, I'd quite like to do a whole house next».»

They won't be able to ignore the fact that he was responsible for the most exciting work of art made in this country in 2008, the Artangel - sponsored project in which he covered the interior of a bedsit in London's East End with crystallised copper sulphate.

Not exact matches

Family units often consisted of mothers looking after children alone in tents or bedsits, their husbands killed in conflict or separated as a result of other circumstances.

My new home is a bedsit in a predominantly Asian area of town.

I picture you sat in an attic bedsit with the curtains forever drawn, at the centre of your universe, dispensing your sermons across the ether on anything and everything in a God - like manner.

The property is made up of around 43 cramped bedsits, which were clearly never intended for families.

This problem has been compounded by estate regenerations which have meant thousands of people have been moved away from their support networks and entire families have been forced to live in bedsits, as their old homes have been torn down to make way for luxury apartments.

After a series of complaints by residents, Newham council are now removing people from the bedsits and have stopped sending families there.

How deep the irony that invocation of Aneurin Bevan is all too often little more than a gesture of contentless radicalism, much in the manner of a faded Che Guevara poster ironically adorning the walls of an undergraduate hipster's bedsit.

The party was more bothered with pleasing its own fissiparous cliques; the wannabe Dave Sparts, the bedsit revolutionaries, the local government crackpots who refused to set a rate, the headbangers of Militant.

But with a great script and a perfect cast, this is Richard Curtis back on the boil: triangle sandwhiches of melancholy washed down with sugary cups of sci - fi tea, alternating between the idylls of the British seaside and comfortable leafy bedsit London.

From the idle chatter from Slimane's bedsit friends, to the heartening dinner conversations of the family, there is a delicate sense of humanity that contrasts itself against the gloominess of the Port town of Sѐte.

Kastandra's offers self - catering accommodation in a private cottage, a bedsit and also in a family unit in the quiet suburb of Mount Croix.

There was also the installation of Roger Hiorns's Seizure 2008/2013 — a copper sulphate chamber relocated from its initial home, a condemned London bedsit.

The graphic novelist Daniel Clowes presents intricate tales of adolescent paranoia, while Charlie White's video American Minor follows a teenage girl through pastel - tinted bedsit reveries.

Over the course of the year, Hiorns sealed a disused south London bedsit and filled it with 90,000 litres of liquid copper sulphate, which after a time encrusted each surface of the apartment with crystals.

Hiorns is an artist best - known for his alchemical interventions: last year he filled a disused London bedsit with 75,000 litres of copper sulphate, transforming it into a grotto encrusted with an intense blue layer of crystals.

Travelling expenses and loss of earnings incurred on abortive contact journeys: Southend - on - Sea bedsit payouts for breaks which had to be cancelled.

Howlett v HM Coroner for Devon and Holcroft [2006] EWHC 2570 (Admin), [2006] All ER (D) 46 (Oct) involved the case of Rachel Whitear who was found dead, aged 21, in a bedsit in Exmouth.

This kitchen was built in the basement of an ambitious renovation project where nine bedsits were restored back into a five - storey home.