Sentences with phrase «plaster walls of his buildings»

According to the artist, the broken plate paintings begun in 1978 were inspired by the Spanish visionary architect Antonio Gaudi who imbedded bits of glass and crockery into the plaster walls of his buildings.

Not exact matches

Customers who are especially interested in history can choose to stay in «original historic rooms,» in the oldest building of the hotel, which have «uneven floors and walls, original plaster and exposed brick, and double brass beds.»

The basic idea of straw bale building is this: Instead of constructing houses from traditional materials, an efficient and environmentally friendly method can be employed in which straw bales finished with plaster and supported with timber or rebar frames serve as the walls of the house.

Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

This means that instead of repairing or replacing features typical of older homes — like plaster walls — with like materials, the policy will pay for repairs using today's standard building materials and construction techniques.

If you look at the first building on the left and at the line that separates the bottom part of the wall (orange stones) from the white plastered part of the wall, it's just about on the eyeline of the photographer.

Harnischfeger's wall - mounted works, in which she paints, builds up and carves out layers of paper and plaster to a deliberate but rough - hewn effect, or shapes hunks of clay and plaster into freeform objects, resemble fantastical topographical maps, odd geological formations, or fragmented, expressive portraits.

Each permanent interior wall of the building has been cartoonishly cut through — brick, plaster and all — by an amalgamated outline of the chaotic quartet.

Made of layers of paper dipped in water and ink, chunks of plaster, glass and crystal shards and pieces of rock and quartz, Harnischfeger's wall works bristle with the taut energy borne of multiple materials situated over and against each other: built up, carved into and painted over.

Richard Prince's Third Place is literally garbage — an isolated cluster of small decaying buildings cluttered with beer cans, bags of dirty diapers, his work either plastered to the walls or weighed to the ground with rocks.

When they met Rebecca and Mike of Simple Construct, a San Diego design / build construction company that specializes in straw bale building, they realized that straw bale building, with its high performance, thick walls, and «adobe» plaster, was a perfect match.

1 As work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block walls.

This means that instead of repairing or replacing features typical of older homes, like plaster walls and hard wood floors, with similar materials, the policy will pay for repairs using the standard building materials and construction techniques in use today.

UHF signals are at a higher frequency, they are more susceptible to being weakened by building materials (walls, plaster, etc.) and are more dependent on a clear line of sight.

In addition to hanging drywall, build walls and repair ceilings make plaster or drywall repairs, and fix leaks or paint roofs, windows, doors, floors, woodwork, and other parts of building structures.

And once too much plaster pops off, the building inspector might require you to completely gut it, because the integrity of the interior walls has been destroyed.

I suggested they build a shallow (12 ″ -14 ″ deep) «false wall», and then clad it in some kind of groovy material like stone, paneling, or plastered drywall.

Designed by Emanuele Garosci and Gabriele Salini, it has taken the shell of a baroque building, with its timber ceilings, acres of parquet and plastered walls, and shaken things up with pieces by Italy's design royalty from the Thirties through to the Fifties.