Sentences with phrase «urban building into»

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is a shining example of transforming an existing, urban building into a healthy, green school for students, teachers, and staff.

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Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

He started his business career with a couple of Pepsi bottling plants, then built from there into shopping centers and movie theaters in urban areas.

The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, explained that Canada must think beyond trade and investment to build new opportunities and partnership through innovation hubs and by tapping into the growth of developing smart cities — urban areas that use communications technologies to manage their infrastructure.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.

You don't need a Masters in urban planning or relocation into the heart of Detroit to have a shot at being a life - changing, Kingdom - building reconciler.

Jane Jacobs, generally considered the founder of modern urban design, thought cities should take the everyday needs of people into account but did not mention religion or religious buildings in her foundational book.

Affirming an urban presence: As populations have shifted away from urban areas, many city churches have closed and the buildings have been turned into restaurants, houses, nightclubs or offices.

Despite the Depression the Rockefellers poured their money into the building of Rockefeller Center, largest and most imaginative act of urban restoration since the San Francisco fire....

Also at 10 a.m., environmental, business, local government, farmers and urban groups hold a rally for state Environmental Protection Fund funding, hallway leading into the Legislative Office Building, Albany.

According to the organization, the goal is to transform the building from a deteriorating, inefficient community service facility into the Lower East Side's quintessential urban community center, to serve families for the next century and beyond.

Whether that's an energy efficient building that increases productivity for tenants or an adaptive reuse project that transforms a forgotten address into an urban destination, our developments generate superior value, inspire end users, and improve the environment we live, work, and play in.

The law might require that anyone entering an emoticon into a smartphone would be required to stand (very still) within a foot of the sidewalk's edge or cough up a $ 50 fine.Going on foot from the Canal Street stop of the A train in lower Manhattan to the door of the huge former printing factory building where Nature Publishing Group has its offices has increasingly become a series of patterned avoidance maneuvers to skirt erratically moving objects immersed in text - crazed oblivion.Mobile devices have succeeded in desensitizing a not insubstantial percentage of urban populations from their physical surroundings.

That the most exciting bits of Black Panther have to do with world - building — the futuristic costuming, the urban design, the smooth assimilation of the technological into the everyday — point to another problem with the CGI - driven mass destruction template of science fiction: it doesn't account for the ways in which the cultural place of technology — and the resultant shape of our technophobia — has evolved over time.

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

In 2010 npower launched a national competition to help reverse this trend and to transform ten areas of grey built up urban school environments into spaces that allowed children's eco-imaginations to bloom.

It was BALI members who built the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park — the largest urban park in Europe and the largest to be built in the UK for over a century — and our members who now maintain it into legacy.

Paramount School of Excellence, Indianapolis, IN Turnkey Development Program: Renovation with addition, transforming a 50 - year - old building, in 4 1/2 months, into a green, non-traditional urban elementary learning space.

A diversifying student body convinced an urban Indianapolis - area district to turn a building that housed vocational programs into a full - service college and career readiness center.

Source: Lexus Press Release is on Page 2 All - New Lexus UX Crossover Makes Its World Debut in Geneva The first - ever Lexus compact luxury crossover Bold «Urban Explorer» design First Lexus built on the new GA — C global platform UX 200 features all - new 2.0 - liter engine coupled with Direct Shift Continuously Variable Transmission UX 250h combines new gas engine with 4th generation hybrid system GENEVA, March 6, 2018 — Following recent launches of its stunning new LC flagship coupe, LS flagship sedan and three - row RX luxury utility vehicle, Lexus is opening a new gateway into the brand with the UX, its first - ever compact luxury crossover.

You can visit museums, a tavern housed in a 300 year old building, or Rock Ford Plantation, but you can also find fine dining and fashionable shops, if you are more into urban lifestyle.

You can turn an old warehouse into a trendy urban apartment building.

Manufactured Home: A home built entirely in a factory under a federal building code administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that went into effect June 15, 1976.

Some have also argued that building more dog friendly spaces into urban planning efforts could have positive health effects for the community as a whole (92).

It includes a popular market (weekly Morning Trade), a beer hall and a series of local boutiques at Eight Morrison Street — an urban regeneration area that is busy transforming buildings into co-working office and retail space for entrepreneurs, startups and creatives.

Opening more than 75 new hotels in the second half of the year not only expanded the All Suites footprint into locations ranging from Kapolei, Hawaii to Charleston, South Carolina, but also demonstrated the versatility of the Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites and Home2 Suites building models, which has catapulted the brands from a mainstay of U.S. suburban markets to hotel products in high - demand in urban, «surban», resort and international destinations.

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The structures are separated into three areas — agricultural, urban, and religious — and are arranged so that the function of the buildings matches the form of their surroundings a kind of Feng Shui if you like.

Developed into its current form between 1890 and 1893 by the biologist, botanist and urban planner Patrick Geddes, Ramsay Garden started out as Ramsay Lodge, a block of Georgian «garden homes» built by the poet and wig - maker Allan Ramsay the Elder in 1733.

We also love the concept of our gentle giants taking over streets and buildings and transforming the urban environment into a dreamlike landscape».

Another very different kind of socially engaged artistic intervention into lived urban space that has garnered a lot of media attention is Superflex's copy of the executives» restroom in the New York JPMorgan Chase headquarters installed inside the Olympic Restaurant in the same building as the exhibition with its entrance on 115 Delancey Street.

From the riverfront terrace, note how well the museum is integrated into its urban setting due to the materials used in its construction (titanium, glass, and limestone), as well as its relationship with surrounding buildings and structures such as La Salve Bridge.

«Gordon Matta - Clark: Anarchitect» The Bronx Museum of the Arts CLOSES: April 8 The artist bore holes into New York's derelict buildings in the»70s as much as a political critique on socioeconomic stratification as a representation of his deep engagement with the city's urban landscape.

His practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture, and some of his most well - known projects involved laboriously cutting holes into floors of abandoned buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), slicing a suburban villa in two.

Artists will learn: - Methods of organizing community around social impact through arts and culture emphasizing available assets over deficits - Tools and activities to engage dialogue, break down barriers, and create a shared language among key stakeholders - Incorporation of art into city planning and urban development - How to negotiate, read / build contracts, and build robust budgets that both account for all aspects of project expense, including artist fee, and reflect the story of your project to funders and stakeholders.

Theaster Gates creates sculptures with clay, tar, and renovated buildings, transforming the raw material of urban neighborhoods into radically reimagined vessels of opportunity for the community.

While the exhibition is dominated by a central cohesive theme, it is divided into five distinct sections: Verticality, Personification of Architecture, Urban Critique, Improvisation and The Vulnerability of Iconic Buildings.

The Guggenheim, scheduled to be completed around 2013, will be a spectacular landmark built on a sandbar extending 50 feet out into the waters of the Gulf, visible from Abu Dhabi's urban center to the east as well as from both coasts of Saadiyat Island.

Within this urban palace, which was built in 1642 by the renowned architect Philips Vingboons, the gallery plans on expanding into its next phase.

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.

Life is Art Foundation (formerly KK Projects), for example, initially came to fruition by commissioning installations in homes destroyed by the hurricane, but today that effort has transformed into a multi-disciplinary nonprofit committed to site - specific installation art, urban gardening, and community - building.

Following his family's emigration from Poland to Canada during his childhood and his later studies in the field of architecture in Winnipeg, Pyszczek laid the focus of his artistic work on the phenomenon of mass - produced residential blocks, in particular on the «embellishment» of their façades and building structures, which also extend into the surrounding environment and, with this, into interconnected, urban systems.

A few of the images are anchored at their bottom edge by urban landscapes — buildings, antennae, branches — while others are centered on the glare itself as it dissolves into abstraction.

Maxwell L. Anderson, Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, Chairman of the Dallas Arts District, and Co-Chairman of the GCDN, said: «The re-imagining of cities demands insight into the distinctive character of a place through its cultural heritage, creative industries, and built environment, and the 2014 Summit will stimulate fresh thinking about these facets of urban planning for cities around the globe.»

Gates creates sculptures with clay, tar, and renovated buildings, transforming the raw material of urban neighborhoods into radically reimagined vessels of opportunity for the community.

Working in a large scale, Mehretu draws on the 21st - century city for inspiration, transferring its energy into her gestural sweeps of paint and built - up marks in ink and pencil — often transposed from projections — and condensing seemingly infinite urban narratives, architectural views, and street plans into single unified compositions.

According to the accompanying press release, the artists intend for Storefront «to create a faux reality... which bleeds into the reality of urban space» allowing the viewer to reflect on «the increasingly rapid ways in which public space is constantly being designed, defined, erased, and built again.»

On his own block on the South Side of Chicago, Gates has engineered a miniature urban utopia, turning the once - blighted buildings that surround him into artist residencies, a library and even a cinema house that shows works by aspiring filmmakers from the neighborhood.

In a constantly shifting flat plane, building and art materials, urban detritus, and domestic items make their way into Alex Hubbard's two new videos, EAT YOUR FRIENDS and BOTTOM OF THE TOP, and now on to his paintings too.