Sentences with phrase «turning abandoned buildings»

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

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Then, when Vogt was an undergrad studying electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, a friend found an abandoned safe in the basement of a campus building, and Vogt persuaded that friend to collaborate with him in making a one - armed bot programmed to turn the dial repeatedly, to crack its combination.

«Those guys turn abandoned old buildings into party areas, basements into coffee shops and simple meetups into life - changing ideas,» Dariusz proudly tells.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

A trademark dispute forced Mikaila Ulmer to abandon the brand identity she and her family had spent years building, but it turned out to be a good thing for both the brand and her mission to improve bee populations.

A pair of Buffalo projects that would turn abandoned school buildings into a 53 market - rate apartments are getting tax breaks from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.

After a controversial plan to turn an abandoned hospital in Troy over to a housing developer failed to clear the city council in June, the city took steps Thursday night to secure the building and borrow money for its demolition.

EAST VILLAGE — More than $ 3 million in funding has been approved to turn an abandoned East 13th Street building into a center for homeless LGBT youths named after gay - rights champion Bea Arthur.

To dull the pain of their rudderless existence, he and his friends drive around, smoke pot, burn down abandoned buildings, and generally behave like multicultural, Midwestern versions of the kids from Saturday Night Fever, another bleak working - class character study driven by a mesmerizing central star turn.

When this reluctant canine duo finds themselves out on the mean streets of New York, they have to set aside their differences and unite against a fluffy - yet - cunning bunny named Snowball (Kevin Hart), who's building an army of Ex-Pets abandoned by their owners and out to turn the tables on humanity... all before dinnertime.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The film also pointedly focuses on the contrasts between characters» lavish homes and abandoned, dismantled buildings that silently tell the stories of a nation's hopes dashed, just as we see how couples» big hopes turn into dust in their hands.

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.

Arriving at a seemingly abandoned building our group of intrepid heroes are kitted out in white armor with a helmet that incorporates a VR vistor, turning the clean, white interior into a warzone.

Some people have taken the abandoned buildings and turned them into bars, art galleries and yes, even a small hotel.

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.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

Coming just a year before Gordon Matta - Clark's death, Office Baroque, 1977, was the artist doing, in Antwerp, Belgium, what he did best: slicing through an abandoned building to turn it into a monumental sculpture.

As Saatchi himself wrote in the book that was published to mark his gallery's (ill - fated, it turns out) move to the «malign» County Hall: «Abandoned warehouses, empty office buildings, disused shops, failed hair salons and ex-bookmakers across south and east London suddenly began filling with art that was headbuttingly impossible to ignore.»

Now, the company has turned their attention to the several abandoned golf courses in the country, with plans to build large solar farms on the land.

For starters, it helps communities drive down steep social costs associated with abandoned buildings — such as increased vandalism, vagrancy and arson, which in turn lead to reduced property values, lower tax revenues and higher crime.

«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.»

Fear of being hurt or abandoned causes a lot of defensive responses which can be turned into moments of building trust and strengthening connection as there is more understanding of the longing for a secure connection that has always been there.