Sentences with phrase «skyscraper windows»

There is, first, the obvious fact that the elements don't really very often add up to a legible landscape (the black pentagon in Calvi looks no more like a cave than the squares in Mondrian look like skyscraper windows — that is, a confusion might be possible because of the limited number of shapes available, but everything in the intention of the painting is there to steer one away from it).

The late inclusion of a helicopter section looks fantastic, skyscraper windows shattering into thousands of pieces, but the gameplay itself remains far too basic.

You can paint skyscraper windows with them, you can paint your house with them — but they still only generate power when the sun is shining.

According to Steve Sherrod, executive director of the Sutton Avian Research Center in Oklahoma, who has been involved for decades with reintroductions of peregrine falcons and bald eagles, skyscraper window ledges closely resemble the mountain cliffs where peregrines would normally nest, and pigeons — abundant in urban areas — are their favorite food.

Moments like O'Brien and his friends jumping from a skyscraper window feel like the kind of sequence that shouldn't go with something technically dubbed a young adult movie (a term I really despise, as it shoots franchises like this in the foot before they even begin), yet here we are, gripping the edge of our seats, mouth agape at the severity of the action.

Not exact matches

Selling a skyscraper isn't the same as selling a retail storefront, explains George Carras, who runs research company RealNet Canada (though there is one comparison to selling a family home; the tower will likely be «fluffed» for visits by bidders, which could involve anything from new lobby furniture to removing condensation from windows).

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

(AP / WBEN) A raging fire that tore through a 50th - floor apartment at Trump Tower killed a man inside and sent flames and thick, black smoke pouring from windows of the president's namesake skyscraper.

Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semi-transparent, as well, «so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper and have them all producing electricity during the day when it's needed.

One of his first jobs when he moved to Vancouver was «hanging out the side of skyscrapers changing windows and fixing the weather stripping.»

In one of the film's best scenes, he takes Stahl to a top floor in an empty skyscraper, where the two of them get high and throw themselves repeatedly against the shatterproof plate - glass windows.

A teen girl receives several mind - body scans that involve simulations that are hallucinations provided by computer programming supplied through cables attached to the girl's back; we see screens in the air that show images of her brain and nervous system as the girl sees the ghost of her dead mother screaming among flames in a building with flaming windows as the building uproots itself and slowly flies through the air; the girl grabs cables, falls, runs across buildings as the flying building crashes into a skyscraper and chunks of concrete fall and fill the screen until she speaks with the ghost and the simulation ends.

Visual effects supervisor John Knoll and Guillermo del Toro spent several weeks discussing the physics of the giant characters, and went into very specific detail, such as how the air displacement from a Jaeger moving between skyscrapers would shake the building's windows.

If used in strongly sunlight areas, either outdoors or in a bright room in a skyscraper with lots of sun coming in through large windows, then the screen could be a little brighter, otherwise I found it bright enough.

I saw an article that compared trading without stops to washing windows on a skyscraper with no harness.

Sortis» rooms are large and decorated in urban chic, with giant windows that let you wake up to the famous skyscrapers of Panama.

Soar over Dubai's skyscrapers and look down on the Emirates Towers and winding ribbon of Dubai Creek from the large windows.

Set atop an industrial style skyscraper, Empire features multiple windows over-looking a series of long corridors that attach each of the map's smaller rooms.

Arriving back to the UAE after five or six weeks away, we'd look out of the window of the car on the way home from the airport and point out all of the things that had changed in the time we'd been gone; a new skyscraper would've started construction on what used to be an empty sandlot, or a complex of villas had been flattened to make way for a hotel, or what used to be small roundabout was now on its way to becoming a spaghetti junction,» says British photojournalist Alex Atack, the man behind this series, Under Construction.

Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues, muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.

Panel A Skyscraper With No Windows: On 33 Thomas Street with Addison Godel, Frank Heath, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras, and Lucy Teitler

Skyscraper canyons, subway platforms, the view out a museum window, monumental freeway overpasses — the city is a constructed place of mammoth wonder.

This device is most obviously used with New York Skyscrapers, (2005), a work consisting of four aluminium panels mounted with photographs of the mirrored window facades of the city's skyscrapers but also notably in early works such as Fenster (1992) and Jeder braucht mindestens ein FensSkyscrapers, (2005), a work consisting of four aluminium panels mounted with photographs of the mirrored window facades of the city's skyscrapers but also notably in early works such as Fenster (1992) and Jeder braucht mindestens ein Fensskyscrapers but also notably in early works such as Fenster (1992) and Jeder braucht mindestens ein Fenster (1993).

A new edition of five screenprinted wooden skyscrapers, Modern Towers 1 — 3, 2017, which reference a series of works that Opie made in the 1990s, are shown together with prints of office windows.

Indefinite Deposits, Screening / Project Briefing and Conversation With C. Spencer Yeh, Triple Canopy, New York, NY A Skyscraper With No Windows: On 33 Thomas St., with Addison Godel, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras, and Lucy Teitler, Swiss Institute, New York, NY Artist Talk and Conversation with Erin Shirreff, Swiss Institute, New York, NY The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY, visiting artist

I wanted to look out my bedroom window in the morning and see skyscrapers.

We've become familiar with nighttime photography of Tokyo's industrial heart — a sea of artificial lights spilling out of the thousands of tiny windows in skyscrapers as far as the eye can see.

Many of his compositions from the period from 1925 to 1929 have architectural titles — «Skyscrapers,» «Factory,» «Pergola» — and they frequently resemble elevations of International Style buildings with strip windows and cantilevered floors.

In New York City, visual icons such as the street grids, skyscrapers, reflections in nighttime store windows, and the city's almost hallucinogenic network of lighted signs propelled individual artists to capture the metropolis as pure visual form.

Many companies have been developing transparent solar panels for use in buildings where the solar panels could replace windows or even make up entire facades of skyscrapers.

If you're THAT worried about the little burdies, steve, how about painting the windows of the glass skyscrapers so that the burdies won't be killed by flying into glass?

Mark Campanale of the Carbon Tracker think tank told a story this year of a meeting with a group of fund managers in California, where he struggled to convince them of the climate - related risks in their portfolio even as they looked out the window of the skyscraper they were in and watched fires burn on the horizon.

Skyscrapers in particular, but also any glass windows cause more bird death than wind mills by a significant margin as well.

The Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex is full of skyscrapers, and the owners of these buildings rely on the services of window cleaning companies and their employees to ensure that their exteriors are kept clean.

A raging fire that tore through a 50th - floor apartment at Trump Tower on Saturday killed a man inside and sent flames and thick, black smoke pouring from windows of the president's namesake skyscraper.

The roof can't be seen from the street and is not accessible without special equipment, but it can be viewed from thousands of windows in the skyscrapers surrounding the pavilion.

The City's most famous of worship is a neo-Gothic marvel, with ornate decorative elements - spires, stained glass windows, marble cladding that makes it stand out amid Midtown's skyscrapers.