Sentences with phrase «spaces in abandoned buildings»

The title of the show derives from a 1976 article, «The Apotheosis of the Crummy Space,» by Nancy Foote in Artforum, in which Foote celebrated the artistic use of spaces in abandoned buildings; her notion that such rooms in such buildings could be transformed by additions to or changes within them was, at the time, a powerful esthetic for Gordon Matta Clark's excavations of forsaken places in New York City, or by David Wojnarowicz's work a generation later.

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The deputy prime minister told MPs that abandoning Lords reforms has opened up space in the parliamentary programme for bills to provide # 40bn to guarantee infrastructure projects and # 10bn for new house building.

«We're not going to leave buildings, we're not going to leave our computers, we're not going to abandon that, so we need to actually create environments that engage us with the outdoors and also that, when we go outside, we're not in a polluted space,» Hoover said.

In the short space of several generations, they adopted the written language of hieroglyphics and revived the tradition of pyramid building long after the Egyptians abandoned it.

Children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings.

[FN18] The organization was formed in 1996 when workers at Kennedy Space Center began caring for feral cats in an abandoned building.

In Budapest, locals turned abandoned buildings and unused spaces into eclectic bars aka Ruin Bars!

Five years later there are still many empty spaces (turned into car parks) and abandoned buildings in town, which doesn't always make the city look very attractive in tourists» eyes.

In addition to transforming abandoned buildings into vibrant art spaces and cultural hubs, Gates has an experimental blues band called the Black Monks of Mississippi.

In the current «Apotheosis,» Korean artists Jinsu Han, an inventor of mechanical engines that do such things as make paintings untouched by the human hand, and Jong Oh, whose minimal interventions with string, Plexiglas, and weight reconstruct space in subtle but far - reaching ways, renewed the entire abandoned building into a grand art projecIn the current «Apotheosis,» Korean artists Jinsu Han, an inventor of mechanical engines that do such things as make paintings untouched by the human hand, and Jong Oh, whose minimal interventions with string, Plexiglas, and weight reconstruct space in subtle but far - reaching ways, renewed the entire abandoned building into a grand art projecin subtle but far - reaching ways, renewed the entire abandoned building into a grand art project.

This is a housing operation, which is still running, in which Gates works with artists, researchers and architects to transform Chicago's abandoned buildings into spaces for sharing and artistic creation; he encouragese residents of the neighbourhood to promote the transformation of the community to which they belong.

Standards Variance is a group show of speculative proposals around what is possible for urban space (empty lots, abandoned buildings, storefronts, green - space, etc.) in Chicago.

An artist with two urban planning degrees, he transforms abandoned buildings into cultural spaces in Omaha, St. Louis and Chicago, where he lives and works.

His motifs include people in everyday situations, abandoned buildings, and garbage containers in seemingly completely empty spaces.

The gallery occupies the restored Globe Mills complex, an abandoned group of interconnected late 19th and early 20th century buildings and outdoor spaces that have been adapted by Annabelle Selldorf, Selldorf Architects, in association with Creative Space, Los Angeles.

His current body of work is created using 3D gaming technology to simulate real world and imagined spaces based on the abandoned and foreclosed buildings in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and San Bernardino California.

Located in an abandoned savings & loan building, it is home to treasures of Chicago culture and history in an archive and performance space unlike any other in the world.

«There were a lot of old, abandoned or nearly empty, funky office buildings downtown, which had these smoky glass doors that were straight out of Sam Spade's office in The Maltese Falcon,» recalled art adviser Allan Schwartzman, who was recently named president of Artists Space's board, along with artist Rachel Harrison.

Also taking advantage of an abandoned building in London are commercial gallery Ibid Projects, who in October opened up a temporary project space in a rickety old house in Hoxton Square; a stark contrast to their polished space on Vyner Street.

«Buildings and spaces that are sitting around unused or extremely underutilized could be expropriated by the city and turned into affordable housing or community centres,» said David Wachsmuth, a founding member of Abandonment Issues, «a Toronto - based coalition of housing activists fighting to get abandoned and underutilized buildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housinBuildings and spaces that are sitting around unused or extremely underutilized could be expropriated by the city and turned into affordable housing or community centres,» said David Wachsmuth, a founding member of Abandonment Issues, «a Toronto - based coalition of housing activists fighting to get abandoned and underutilized buildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housinbuildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housing.»