Sentences with phrase «transforming abandoned buildings»

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.

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.

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In a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISE.

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.

Theaster Gates transformed vacant and abandoned buildings in his neighborhood on Chicago's South Side by establishing a foundation, and then partnering with the city and developers to rehab a public housing complex into

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.

He paid $ 1 for the abandoned city landmark and transformed the 17,000 square foot building into a cultural arts center.

The image above is a work by Oster + Koezle whose images of abandoned buildings, are originally shot on film, are transformed into alternate space with a simple digital occupation turning the image of reality into an independent image following the rules of a picture plane.

Working at the intersections of photography, painting and architecture, Rousse transforms raw space within abandoned or soon - to - be-demolished buildings into surprising visions of color and shape through the single - perspective of his camera lens.

THEASTER GATES Chicago Reader, Oct. 1 - 7, 2015 After purchasing an abandoned bank from the city of Chicago for $ 1, artist Theaster Gates has transformed the 17,000 square foot building into the Stony Island Arts Bank, a cultural arts center.

One solution to the abandoned building problem is to transform former office buildings, warehouses and stores into in - demand properties.

Two abandoned old stone buildings in the small mountain village of Crana, Northern Italy were restored and transformed into a modern villa by Vudafieri Saverino Partners, blending rustic and modern elements.