Sentences with phrase «scale public works»

Here in America, the military is sacred while other efforts to organize large - scale public works, such as the WPA, are derided as «makework projects».

Anish Kapoor (b. 1954) India - born British abstract sculptor, winner of Turner Prize, noted for large - scale public works in rough hewn stone, cast metal and stainless steel, such as Cloud Gate (2006) in the AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park, Chicago.

Massey has installed large - scale public works in the United States and abroad.

Donald Lipski is a sculptor who is best known for his installation work and large - scale public works.

Alain Kirili is a New York based artist and internationally recognized for his iron sculptures and large scale public works.

Some of that respect came to him from a series of commissions he received to do large - scale public works, some in the form of architectural elements and some in the form of murals.

The name Alexander Liberman may be synonymous with Condé Nast Publications, but his role as a painter and sculptor of large - scale public works has earned him a place in some of the most prestigious art museums in the world.

Raised in Washington, D.C., Thomas Sayre is renowned for his large - scale public works installed both nationally and internationally.

It is presented as a single installation featuring large scale photography, sculpture maquettes and installations of small - scale stones that often are the muse for Smyth's large scale public works.

SIMON TERRILL is an Australian artist based in London who works with photography, sculpture and installation as well as large - scale public works involving many hundreds of participants.

Jud Bergeron has exhibited nationally with solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and San Francisco and has been commissioned for many large scale public works throughout the United States.

Working with thin gauge plate and other small - scale industrial materials, focus and emphasis will be placed on creating small - scale sculptural pieces using joinery techniques, paired with inspiration from large - scale public works.

Although Teresita Fernández is widely recognized for her contemplative public art works, the Miami - born and New York - based artist delivers equally elegant and conceptually concise reflections of her grand scale public works in her gallery exhibitions — Fire (America) at Lehmann Maupin's Chrystie street location is no exception.

Donald Lipski is a sculptor best known for his installation pieces and his large scale public works.

But investing in large - scale public works efforts has largely fizzled on the federal level.

In 1996, Iglesias was invited to build her first large - scale public work Deep Fountain, using water for the city of Antwerp which resulted in a dynamic, expansive well in the large public square in front of the Museum Voor Schone Kunsten.

Their 5 3/4» square formats are a counterbalance to his large scale public work and the theme of the series references the beauty and order of the progression that Fibonacci introduced to Western European mathematics.

Not exact matches

In contrast to Ong's product - based approach, Roosegaarde's work has mainly taken the form of large - scale installations, among them a fluorescent bike path that glows like Van Gogh's night skies, giant kites that can supply up to 200 households with green energy, and «the world's largest vacuum cleaner» to suck up air pollution in public spaces.

He added: «For customers who want access to existing large - scale public cloud providers, we have already added greater support for Amazon Web Services as part of our hybrid delivery with HP Helion Eucalyptus, and we have worked with Microsoft to support Office 365 and Azure.

This includes changing daylight savings time, cutting working hours of public sector employees and urging residents to scale back on their use of electricity.

Government investments have been directed towards public works of scale (such as from the Hoover Dam), military - industrial contracts, and the financial industry.

Brand ambassadors often work large scale events such as concerts or sports games, and hand out free swag and coupons to the public to increase brand awareness and promote sales.

For example, if Schnorr signatures, a scaling method that works by aggregating public keys, are adopted into bitcoin, it could correct this issue in a «simple and attractive» way, Osuntokun said.

And so Britain finds itself outside the EU on the basis of a competent communications operation - working off large - scale public concern about the prospect of continued membership - but without significant intellectual policy work on which to draw on.

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The coalition, dubbed Let NY Work, singled out the usual suspects blamed for the state's high property - tax burden, and called for scaling back the Triborough Amendment, an end to state mandates, cheaper construction through design - build and a defined benefit program under a proposed Tier VI plan for public employees.

While Ms Owers praised the prison workers who were «committed to improvement and who are working hard to achieve a decent environment», she hoped the investigation would provide «the pointers for what needs to be done, as well as indicating to ministers and the public the scale of the challenge in our overcrowded and pressurised local prisons».

She has worked as a consultant in the private and not - for - profit sectors on a variety of large - scale public engagement and issue campaigns.

John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, said: «I have great hopes for What Works Scotland in deepening and scaling up the Scottish approach to public service delivery and reform.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill launched a new large - scale public engagement campaign he says will encourage community residents to work in conjunction with with police officers to fight crime in the city.

It offers a snapshot of the fantastic work that's going on in the industry from retail to housing to large scale public services and rejuvenation projects we have taking place.

The program also works on a smaller scale with the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, providing advice on grant management and ways to create public - private partnerships for Kuwaiti researchers.

Our work on the expansion of newborn screening reviewed the potential for large - scale public health initiatives to generate incidental findings of non-paternity or carrier status.

He spends the majority of his time working with the PLANETS Foundation to scale their fundraising and engagement with the public.

On its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls insufficient sleep a public health problem in America, «which may be caused by broad scale societal factors such as round - the - clock access to technology and work schedules.»

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

We applied for a grant through the Gates Foundation — alongside Green Dot Public Schools in Los Angeles — to support our work with SCALE.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Sometimes it seems as if we've tried everything in our efforts to reform public education, yet nothing has worked to boost student achievement at scale.

This concentration shares some themes with CIS, but your work with EPPE will focus on public policy and large - scale reforms.

Though the only data on large - scale voucher programs she finds convincing come from her own study of the New Zealand public - choice program and Martin Carnoy's work in Chile, Ladd confidently asserts that vouchers will not help those public schools that are having the hardest time of it.

«There's definitely a hope that the post-hurricane experience in New Orleans will show that public charter schools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor arpublic charter schools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor arPublic Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor article.

, a nonprofit that gives 14 - 24 year olds full and part - time work over the summer to create large - scale public art, and the DYCD ’s

The school leaders, Ms. Siwiec and COO Bill Holmes, partnered with Creative Art Works, a nonprofit that gives 14 - 24 year olds full and part - time work over the summer to create large - scale public art, and the DYCD's Summer Youth Employment Program.

With flexibility that the public schools just don't have, new compensation models can be polished and perfected in buildings that work beyond the current system and then adopted and embraced on a larger scale over time.

Working with the Pittsburgh Federation Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, SEIU Health Care PA, and Action United Pittsburgh, PIIN will begin building public awareness about the community schools model and organizing a large - scale public demand for community schools to be Pittsburgh's turnaround model.

Over 70 percent of the American public believes quality of work and not a standard scale should determine teacher pay, and 60 percent believe the primary reason for evaluating teachers should be to help them improve their ability to teach.

But she does present a threat to public charter schools, which have proven to be the first - ever school reform that works at scale for poor kids.

When Michelle Rhee, then chancellor of the D.C. public schools, announced a radical plan to rate teachers» effectiveness on a numerical scale, then fire the worst and give the best huge pay hikes, even her staff wondered whether it could possibly work.

According to Public Works Financing, the collapse of Abengoa would also deal a blow to the Obama administration's clean energy program, since «starting in 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy provided Abengoa with loan guarantees and grants to support $ 4 billion in financing for two utility scale solar power projects in Arizona and California.»