Sentences with phrase «single circular track»

Not exact matches

This show may not offer any big new revelations about the nature of the circle, but it brings together a magnificent, occasionally mad cornucopia of rounded works, from the London Underground sign from Oval station to magical pieces of Zen Buddhist calligraphy, created during a single exhalation of breath; from Marcel Duchamp's Anaemic Cinema, a whirling «psychedelic» animated film from 1925, to Chicago artist Theaster Gates's A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, in which a stuffed goat on a tricycle, originally used in Masonic ceremonies, runs noisily round a circular railway track.

Other inspired ideas include the architect Steven Holl's 1980 proposal to place luxury villas and Single Resident Occupancy hotels together on the elevated tracks that are now the High Line; the sculptor Isamu Noguchi's 1960 design, a collaboration with the architect Louis Kahn, for an earthworks playground in Riverside Park (represented by a handsome bronze model Noguchi cast); and even the architect Matthew Nowicki's design for a giant circular shopping center hovering over Columbus Circle.