Sentences with phrase «rotunda which»

This revolutionary concept also had its drawbacks: there are almost no horizontal floors, with the exception of the rotunda which Wright intended as a social and gathering space, not for exhibition purposes.

The official purpose of the historic project is to rebuild the Edicule, the shrine in the middle of the church rotunda which encloses the tomb.

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The budget will be released shortly after 4PM on Wednesday, after which Benjamin and Patrick will be present in the Centre Block rotunda for scrums.

And yet both works share the same formal precision and spatial dynamism, which in Washington's case allows the statue to both dominate and animate the large rotunda in which it is situated.

But our finest public statue, pound for pound, is Jean - Baptiste Houdon's life - sized George Washington, which stands in the rotunda of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond.

The central campus of the University of Virginia, where I am Prof. Wilken's student, is laid out around a central Rotunda, which is itself supposed to be a temple to education generally (that is, to human wisdom).

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This included allegedly menacing nightclub patrons with a gun, brandishing a butter knife at a House colleague, reportedly having sex with a woman in the bathroom of a bar in Brooklyn and threatening a NY1 reporter that he would hurl him from the Capitol building rotunda — a comment to which he appended the curious addendum: «I'll break you in half.

Walcott entered the Tweed Courthouse rotunda, which is the headquarters of the Education Department, to rousing cheers and applause from his colleagues at the department.

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a rally in the rotunda of City Hall following the tie, which he described as a «huge mistake» from the court.

Our tour will include a visit to the observatory's stately rotunda — Percival's library — and a glimpse at Lowell's famous 24 - inch Clark refractor, with which he observed the «canals» of Mars.

After a (perhaps too) long amount of exposition in which we meet the assortment of characters who will eventually fit snugly into the demands of the plot, there's a massive explosion in the rotunda of the United States Capitol.

For the opener of the story, «Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Video Game,» we used an iconic painting called the Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull, which hangs in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and is on the back of the two - dollar bill.

Amazon chose a giant rotunda in New York's Morgan Library, which houses some of the world's most important literary and musical works.

Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.

We did have drinks in the grand rotunda — the actual name of which I forget — where we were well looked after.

For the occasion of that exhibition, the artists created a monumental Soft Shuttlecock spanning 32 feet long and six feet in diameter which appeared suspended from the museum's skylight with its feathers draped over the railings of the building's renowned rotunda.

For the past two decades Steinkamp's hypnotic 3 - D animations — of trees, rocks, abstract shapes, even pearl strands — have typically added layers of cheer to spaces as disparate as Las Vegas's Fremont Street Experience to the rotunda at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (which will reinstall her Loop projection, last displayed in 2000, this March).

That was the terse advice that the painter Agnes Martin gave to anyone coming to her paintings, more than 100 of which are now floating up the ramps of the Guggenheim Museum rotunda in the most out - of - this - world - beautiful retrospective I've seen in this space in years.

The forms, which are each unique in shape and size, occupy the overhead space of the Rotunda, located at the end of Hammerhead terminal.

In his first major retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1971, Chamberlain installed a giant barge in the rotunda, from which visitors could watch other visitors as they wandered along the ramp occupied by Chamberlain's metal, Plexiglas, and small - scale foam sculptures.

For this exhibition, Cattelan sidestepped the totalizing effect of a retrospective by devising a site - specific installation in which his entire oeuvre was suspended from the oculus of the museum's iconic rotunda.

Spiraling Echoes is a site - specific sound sculpture which was created for the Rotunda of SF City Hall by internationally renowned, Bay Area sound art pioneer Bill Fontana.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

The arrangement to which Smith refers is the suspension of 128 works — the entirety of Cattelan's artistic production (apart from two works owners refused to loan)-- within Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic open rotunda.

Large - scale works became a focus of Flavin's later career, with site - specific lights commissioned for such spaces as the rotunda at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and a converted church in Bridgehampton, New York, which was established in 1983 as the Dan Flavin Art Institute.

In her most recent installation for the SCHIRN Rotunda, the Berlin based artist Alicja Kwade deals with the actual movement of time which will have a direct impact on the space and on visitors alike.

The 2009 Tate Britain Christmas Tree which was designed by artist Tacita Dean and is entitled «Weihnachtsbaum» goes on display in the gallery's Rotunda on December 10, 2009 in London, England.

The space sits in the rotunda of the Art Deco building, which is landmarked (and arguably LaGuardia's most pleasant terminal), below a 235 - foot - wide, WPA - era mural by James Brooks, «Flight.»

Kayne Griffin Corcoran showed projection, photographs and woodcuts — which related seamlessly to each other — emerging from the 2013 Guggenheim Project for which Turrell recast the rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light, effectively turning Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic architecture into one of his Skyspaces.

The central rotunda contains a yellow construction with three gauze tubes, which looks as though it must serve some quasi-industrial function — though you surmise it probably doesn't.

For nearly thirty years, the artist has been creating variations on the Greek statue Venus, from the massive trio of bronzes entitled Looking Toward the Avenue, which measure 14», 18» and 23» high and grace the corner of 52nd Street and Sixth Avenue in New York City, to a 37 foot tall, 11.5 ton Cincinnati Venus, which sits atop the 52 - foot high rotunda of the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Court House in Cincinnati.

At the Academy, Price created the Windows on Fifth series in the museum's front windows, which has featured video and digital works by such artists as Julian Opie, Adam Chapman, and Jennifer Steinkamp, as well as the Sculpture in the Rotunda series, which launched with a piece by John Chamberlain and recently featured a Phoebe Washburn installation.

In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of Futurism, the dinner will follow a 7 pm performance of FUTURISMUSIC by pianist Daniele Lombardi, which will take place in the museum's rotunda while guests view the Italian Futurism exhibition.

The stairs swirl you down from the entrance level of the Rotunda into the remodelled space between the renovated Whistler restaurant, and a big, new cafe with crypt - like vaulting and glazed doors which open on to a semi-sunken terrace.

Fittingly, Turrell's first solo show since 1980 in a major New York venue, in which his new site - specific work, Aten Reign (2013)-- six years in the planning — will transform the rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic building into one of his luminous and immersive Skyspaces, opens at the Guggenheim Museum on the summer solstice.

The City Beautiful Rotunda features a garden through which a magical watering - can travels from flower to flower.

The two properties will connect at five levels; Designs feature the famed 102 - foot - wide glass and steel dome and rotunda and historic facade of 835 Market Street, which will be restored and, the unique oval - shaped atrium that currently illuminates the San Francisco Centre; Leasing begins immediately.