Sentences with phrase «surrounded by concrete»

So I play up what I can in my existing home and have started growing ivy up one of the exterior walls of my home (the one that's surrounded by concrete so it's easier to tame — I realize it's invasive!)

The burning process from limestone could be backended with a CO2 capture system, which CO2 could then be combined with ammonia to produce urea and sunk in an ocean trench (surrounded by concrete or something).

The space is surrounded by concrete, with brightly coloured decking laid down on the roof floor.

Although we may be surrounded by concrete and roads, one billboard of an island getaway can serve as a window through which an intuitive and pure connection with the self can be achieved.

In a recent solo exhibition at Maccarone Gallery in New York, collectors lent Bove a 1963 eight - inch sphere by sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, which she placed on a platform surrounded by concrete blocks, bronze cages, driftwood and steel.

For over ten years, Scruby lived surrounded by concrete, void of any real natural landscape and his new environment presents the opportunity to grow and maintain a garden.

Spacious private bathroom with walk - in jungle rain shower feature his and hers hand painted talavera sinks surrounded by a concrete counter top.

The only thing we didn't like is the fact the whole beach and swimming area is surrounded by a concrete promenade — which make the whole thing look a bit less natural.

Unless you live in a very urban area surrounded by concrete - avoidance can be very difficult.

Since we're surrounded by concrete we're kind of SOL on the nature front, but you get where I'm going with that.)

So is it any wonder our bodies react differently to being surrounded by a concrete jungle versus being out in the wonders of nature?

Small towns such as Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank are literally surrounded by the concrete barrier.

There is no yard â $ «the house is surrounded by concrete which extends about 10 - 20 feet from the walls of the house.

Tolkien's reference to «ancient shepherds» seems to carry with it an implicit criticism of «modern» and «urban»; that modern man, surrounded by concrete and reliant on mechanical devices, has lost touch with nature.

The Jews history to manipulate and to achieve their objectives has not chanced, in fact by analyzing the State of Israel today, we see that they are a closed in society prisoners within their own castle, surrounded by a concrete wall.

Not exact matches

Its white curved roof sits on a base of drab concrete, surrounded by 130 acres of asphalt on the outskirts of Pontiac.

The Church is characterised by a concrete and enduring collectivity of subjects that surrounded Christ and with whom Christ established relations (that were paradigmatic and efficacious), so that humanity might continue to have access to Christ.

There is nothing quite as brutal as 85 + degree heat in a city made entirely of concrete and surrounded by water.

We wind through scraggy little hamlets on outskirts of the city, past low - slung stucco houses surrounded by crumbling concrete walls.

The swimming facility at 500 S. Prospect St., Roselle, was built in the 1970s and consists only of the concrete pool surrounded by a chain link fence.

The machine, increasingly popular since it was introduced at a California medical center nearly 25 years ago, typically is as heavy as an airliner, surrounded by a shield of concrete and often housed in a building several stories tall.

The data should reveal how pumas adapt to life in a habitat fragmented by roads, dotted with houses, and surrounded by water and concrete.

Filled with inert gas to prevent rust, the casks are moved out to concrete pads surrounded by barbed wire, which look a little like basketball courts at maximum security prisons.

These open - air pools are surrounded by thick - walled, steel - lined concrete containers.

These so - called heat islands are simply urban areas surrounded by asphalt roads, concrete and less grass and tree shade.

In addition, the containment vessel is surrounded by a 6 foot thick steel & concrete structure known as the Containment Enclosure Structure.

For someone like me who loves bright color and whose mood is affected by sunlight, I sometimes find myself feeling demotivated after too many cloudy days surrounded by a spectrum of grey concrete.

For decades, it was just a little patch of concrete, but more recently the neighbors came together and created a lovely little garden there: a lushly planted mound of green surrounded by park benches.

The beaches of Vieques are pristine, clear, undeveloped, plentiful, and surrounded by wild native flora instead of concrete and asphalt.

Concrete and glass suburban hotel, surrounded by park, in the south part of city - 4 minutes to fairground...

Property sits on a clean and well - maintained yard surrounded by a wooden and concrete fence.

The house was built with concrete and wood (Almond tree) in 2007 and it is surrounded by wonderful nature offering 3 spacious bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, full appliances kitchen and amazing 6 meters high ceiling in the living - dining room plus fabulous terrace where you can relax and enjoy natural life.

As with the Xbox One, no concrete release date was made, but details surrounding the topic of console - wide DRM was met with great applause when Sony announced that it would allow used games to be sold back to retail outlets, such as GameStop, would not require games to be authenticated over the internet and would not require users to «check in» by having the console connect to the internet every 24 hours.

Bradford's enormous ark, made of plywood boards papered with peeling advertisements from Los Angeles walls loomed over an empty plain where homes once stood, surrounded by lots still marked by concrete foundation blocks that eerily resembled crumbling tombstones.

Regular commuters on Interstate 95 who drive by New Haven are accustomed to the sight of the imposing concrete structure hovering over the surrounding landscape like a giant Brutalist spaceship.

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

Jesse Darling «s materialisation of software's influence as owner and objectifier in Photoshop 1 (Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Paint Bucket)(2013) confuses the point where the body ends and the image begins, while Harm van den Dorpel «s «Untitled assemblage (selfie)» (2013) mimics the cyclical nature of identity creation and curation within its sphere of digital prints on perspex while still dangling within, and being dwarfed by the concrete structures surrounding it.

The geometric, concrete structure will be surrounded by parallel lengths of colored industrial pipe, simulating double furrows in an endless field.

Barlow enjoys juxtaposing familiar objects with abstract sculptural forms - a gnarled anvil sits on dismembered pianos in piano / anvil and the cast concrete holedhoarding outside the Pavilion resembles a billboard, surrounded by abandoned debris shaped like shoes, tyres and placards.

«Today, at the entrance to the swank new replacement facility (in the same location as the old one), and surrounded by native plantings and an elegant molded concrete facade, is a commissioned, site - specific sculpture by New York City — based artist Jean Shin, titled Reclaimed.

We live in a city of endless gray concrete roads, surrounded by steel lamps.

And though its reactors are elevated by another 20 feet of concrete buttressing, this Century's predicted sea level rise would flood its grounds and surrounding roadways — likely rendering it inoperable.

The Geo 6 is fed by 600 meters of 40 mm horizontal collectors — half buried in a field, half buried in tight coils strategically located in the garden — about 180m in two layers under the rainwater soakaway, and then 60m vertically coiled surrounding the concrete septic tank.

The site could be surrounded by ever - expanding square - miles of concrete / asphalt / buildings, but if it's in a compliant «patch», it could be a «2» category.

The park had already been surrounded by construction walls and machinery as part of a massive ongoing project to bring the roads of the adjacent transit hub Taksim Square underground — a change touted as an environmentally friendly «pedestrianization project» that appears more likely to leave the iconic square a lifeless, hard - to - access expanse of concrete.

This was followed by the woman who, while texting a friend, walked directly into the concrete surround of a fountain and fell headfirst, fully clothed, into the water.

The shed rests on a concrete block foundation surrounded by stacks of stones, giving the building a sense of permanence and providing an attractive way to level the shed and disguise the change in slope.

There are quite a few things that get me excited in the world of interiors... a concrete floor, black cladding, little rustic cabins or architectural houses surrounded by nature...

The modern concrete house, constructed from slabs poured on site, is surrounded by lush native trees.