Sentences with phrase «of skyscrapers»

Players will be able to go to Balloon World by talking to Luigi who can be found on top of a skyscraper in New Donk City, according to GameSpot.

I was on the top floor of a skyscraper in the center of the city.

It's a colossal work of entertainment that generates sentiment through raw spectacle, orchestrating an elegant tapestry of stress and catharsis that needs to be experienced on a screen the size of a skyscraper in order to be enjoyed as its director intended.

Taking place across three idiosyncratic locations: the former Methodist chapel at 176 Prince of Wales Road, London, home to the Zabludowicz Collection; a number of vacant shops in the London Borough of Camden; and the 33rd floor of a skyscraper on New York's Times Square, The Shape We're In encourages the public to engage with works in new and informal ways.

This glittering city of skyscrapers has an incredible range of things to do, from star - gazing safaris to the desert to indoor ski centres and theme parks.

There are cities full of skyscrapers and those will transport you back in time, but they all hold a uniqueness that will make you want to linger a little longer.

Inspired by the Wurts Bros.'s novel technique of aligning ground level shots of skyscrapers with images taken from the upper levels of a nearby building, Boserup adds found images, drawing, geological images and her own photographs shot in the streets of New York to an enlarged digital print from the archive.

While lots of Nairobi may seem very Westernised, with lots of skyscrapers adorned with corporate names, there are still plenty of examples of traditional African culture to be found, especially in the markets.

Despite its»80s high school allusions, Central Intelligence frolics happily in the nostalgia of the 1990s, reminiscing about Budweiser's «Wassup» adverts and featuring a soundtrack that opens with En Vogue's «My Lovin» and plays Blur's «Song 2» along to a vigorous action sequence which sees the pair crash out of a skyscraper in a mail cart.

With winds of 160 kilometers per hour and torrential rains, Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast early on Saturday morning, submerging most of Galveston and blowing out glass windows of skyscrapers in Houston.

From inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty he stood in awe, gazing out at the sea of skyscrapers, shining like metal and glass exclamation points, punctuating the urban skyline.

The owner of a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, for instance, might purchase a commercial terrorism policy to provide additional protection.

This location inspired O'Keeffe to paint birds - eye views of the East River as well as street - level views of a number of the skyscrapers located in her midtown Manhattan neighborhood.

This cute piece has great transitional qualities, it's perfect for the weekend or out for date night with a pair of skyscraper heels for a serious statement look.

Two relatively junior staff members escape for a late - night cigarette on the roof of their skyscraper with their boss after they discover the firm's tenuous position.

You both stand there in the dark looking out over the twinkling lights of the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles.

-LSB-...] To posit a purely negative reading of skyscrapers as icons of power, to renounce them as signs of an oppressive system, and to forget everything that is human about architecture is to obviate any possible complexity — even pleasure — they might afford.

Lara vaults onto a helicopter through Hong Kong and then parachutes off of a skyscraper while being chased by gunmen — it doesn't quite feel like the Tomb Raider experience that we came to see.

Colonial Revival motifs could be applied to modern building forms, as in the case of the skyscraper built for the Hartford - Connecticut Trust Company in 1920.

The facades of the skyscrapers mirror the blue of the sky and the turquoise waters of the Persian Gulf.

In the late 1980s Maathai led a courageous fight against the construction of a skyscraper scheduled for construction in the middle of Uhuru park, Nairobi's most important public space.

Look out at the twinkling lights of the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles and think about how every single one of those office lights represents a person.

Next, return to your coach and drive to Dubai Marina to view a cluster of skyscrapers along the shoreline.

Cheng's friend Benjamin Von Wong is a photographer who pulls stunts like posing a model underwater with sharks, or on the unprotected edge of a skyscraper.

Photos of a skyscraper showed lots of detail, as did a shot of a can of Diet Coke taken at our desk.

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Though in a world of skyscrapers and office towers churches are no longer so prominent, the public role of church buildings to sacramentalize the heavenly city and redeem the earthly one remains critically important and demands new and compelling expression.

At the end of the day, this is why we have a ghastly thrill at the sight of skyscrapers tumbling, asteroids annihilating Paris, or waves overtaking huge crowds of New Yorkers.

Being in Chicago, I loosely based the shape of my skyscraper shards on the buildings in Chicago's Loop (I would love to see some skyscraper cakes inspired by cities all over the world!!!).

This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates the iconic structure of the skyscraper in the city that is considered to be its birthplace.

The hologram operates with circularly polarized light, and the information is encoded on to the light beam by the varied angles of the skyscrapers.

One major technological breakthrough that allowed for the creation of skyscrapers in the late 1800s was the development of a material that was lighter and stronger than previously used materials: steel.

SUPERTALL SCRUTINY In presenting the changes that have occurred in the design of skyscrapers since September 11, 2001, in «Castles in the Air,» Mark Lamster notes three threats: aircraft impact, earthquakes and wind.

The fact that the glass is retroreflective means that if it were used on the outside of skyscraper, for example, it would direct light up toward the sun rather than down to the street.

Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a middle - aged man who lives alone in an apartment overlooking a skyline of skyscrapers (the film was partly shot in Shanghai) and whose day job involves writing emotional handwritten letters on behalf of strangers.

Imposing forests of skyscrapers jut up from the concrete, cave dwellings yawn open at the base of the Manhattan Bridge, and the city's homeless specialize in ad hoc musical theatre.

Meanwhile, angular shots of skyscrapers from below, pulsing close - ups and lighting, and blurred, quick shots all add to the sense of disorientation throughout the film.

Peter Fink (American, 1907 - 1984) Two Photographs: View of Skyscraper from Below and Refractions, Park Avenue, New York, 1960s.

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a mix of skyscrapers and shanty towns, narrow alleyways and major shopping thoroughfares with bars and markets that stay open for 24 hours.

Sydney's CBD has a high concentration of skyscrapers dominating the city skyline.

The canyon of skyscrapers along Sixth Avenue looks every bit as faceless without them.

Firstly, the movement system is far more in keeping with Assassin's Creed than the original, and while you won't be climbing up the sheer face of a skyscraper, verticality is much more of an option than in the first game.

A photograph Mies took of his skyscraper model in 1922 is the ground for McElheny's series of photo - based drawings, Bruno Taut on Mies van der Rohe (1922), i - iv.

In 2008, the Public Art Fund presented WHAT MY DAD GAVE ME, one of his skyscraper sculptures, at the Rockefeller Center in New York City.

, lets kids build and manage their own skyline in order to learn about features of skyscrapers.

A new society has been built by a hand of ruthless opportunists, who live in luxury in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the less fortunate citizens who must eke out a hard life on the streets below.

The Perito Moreno Glacier moves so fast in the warm season that glaciers the size of skyscrapers fall into the water every few minutes.