Sentences with phrase «of urban ruins»

This had an immeasurable impact: she continues to be fascinated by exposed architecture, a key motif in her work, along with a committed exploration of the poetic potential of urban ruins.

Mining collective subconscious cosmologies, Zucco's use of industrial materials connect the impossibly remote moods of crystallized prehistoric time to the historically tangible decay of urban ruins.

Playing on the idea of an urban ruin, the garden will gradually evolve to become rambling and overgrown with different grasses, low - level creepers and fragrant plants.

Not exact matches

To support an urban style of Christian life against the rural romantic piety of most American Protestantism is not to defend the crime - ridden, auto - infested ruins we have heaped up where cities once stood.

Unlike this one, significant fossil sites tend to be found in exotic locales such as the searing hot Gobi Desert or the windswept pampas of Patagonia, areas remote from the kind of urban development that can ruin them.

To get a better understanding of Angkor's urban landscape, Fletcher's colleague at Sydney, Damian Evans, turned to LiDAR, an instrument that a few years ago mapped hidden features of medieval Mayan ruins in Central America.

«A self - centred, w ** k - happy woman with limited drive, a failing small business and a family in ruins, her lifestyle tiptoed around the edges of urban hipsterdom, but also deep, dark loss.

And as for declining enrollment in private schools, private school consumption is decreasing, particularly in urban areas where children are being ruined by failing schools, because of economics, not school quality.

Far from tiny towns like Penny Gate, K.A. Tucker's He Will Be My Ruin takes readers to the crowded streets of New York City, though this heart - stopping urban thriller asks a similar question: How well do we really know the ones we love?

This ancient ruined city was once larger than Belize's largest urban center, Belize City, so there's no shortage of things to explore.

These ruins offer perhaps a more complete picture of Roman urban life than either Rome or Pompeii.

Children will love having their own mini club, pool and playground and further from the hotel, a ten minutes drive from Salou takes you to Tarragona, home of the roman ruins of Tarraco, medieval alleyways, cobbled streets and plenty of tempting dining options that make for one of the most vibrant and beautiful urban centres in Catalonia.

Dozens of core urban areas such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Ek Balam and Coba went from bustling cities to abandoned ruins, over the course of roughly one hundred years.

The setting for Sniper Elite V2 was in war - torn Europe, featuring lots of urban combat among the ruined buildings; and while each mission map was large in size, the experience was still quite linear.

The setting of Sniper Elite V2 was in war - torn Europe, featuring lots of urban combat among the ruined buildings.

The urban destruction of Amiens, with its ruined buildings and tight alleyways, makes for one of the few settings where CQC feels genuinely rewarding.

The photographs, like much of the artist's work, capture images of ancient ruins, abandoned bunkers, and graffiti - covered urban structures - in short, disparate sites that are unified by their shared states of physical change, erosion, or decay over time.

The grillwork quotes the building's ruined facade, while the patchwork of rectangular elements evokes the surrounding urban landscape.

Architectural ruins was a common subject for 18th - and 19th - century artists and an especially favored theme among the Romanticists; Farm Security Administration photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange are known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression; and most recently, an obsession with photographing urban decay has sparked an entire genre dubbed «ruin porn.»

Piranesi's work blurs the line between past and present, depicting contemporary urban life on a backdrop of ancient ruins.

Her paintings, sculptures, performances and installations expose, as the New Museum points out, «the inherent problems as well as the latent possibilities within urban ruin, exploring what she refers to as the «aesthetization of failure.

Translated into English for the first time, the voices of these characters are manifested in a sound installation in the Curve, where the earthquake comes to represent the rising tensions of society facing the ruins of urban environment, political and religious power and social relationships.

If in the first instance she poses questions about the current state of the construction, development, use, and decay of spaces that are apparently peripheral to the city, in the second she manages to provoke a dialogue about the different elements that make up the physical reality of the urban landscape, in its constant transformation through demolitions, excavations, construction materials, and contemporary ruins.

Re-thinking the traditional divide between historical monuments and discarded urban ruins, artists Rä di Martino, Pablo Hare, José Carlos Martinat, Haroon Mirza, Eliana Otta and Amalia Pica are brought together to explore contemporary ideas of archaeology, fiction and reality.

Initially, Buer began her search for these urban ruins and relics in the abandoned industrial recesses of Detroit.

For starters, one would be hard - pressed to find any of these things from an app - controlled mini-bar that doesn't care about ruining people's livelihoods or the urban landscape:

«Between the half - erased neighbourhoods are ruined factories, boarded up warehouses, rows of storefronts bearing the traces of failed enterprise... some areas have been stripped entirely and weedy version of nature is returning... a third of Detroit, some forty square miles, has evolved past decrepitude into vacancy and prairie - an urban void nearly the size of San Francisco.»