Sentences with phrase «urban fabric»

This upside - down house takes full advantage of the stunning views surrounding it, while maximizing privacy in a tight urban fabric.

The original World Trade Center was plopped down like an enormous dystopian incubus on the fine - grained urban fabric of Lower Manhattan.

With our experience in urban morphology including existing urban fabric, MosArt is well placed to produce harmonious and integrated arrangements of buildings and space.

The artist, who was born in Brussels in 1958, has undertaken an extensive examination of the museum and the surrounding urban fabric, creating numerous new pieces that take up the entire ground - floor gallery.

She recognized artistic allure in their accidental, abstract beauty, but in the wood's pockmarks and painted - over graffiti, she also saw powerful expressions of the city's ever - changing urban fabric.»

In a prime tourist location these new one, two and three bedroom apartments offer luxury accommodation including easy living with plenty of space, ample storage and modern chic that blends with Kingscote's historic urban fabric.

His most recent works blend Southern Vernacular visual styles and African diasporic retentions with modern abstraction to depict the complex urban fabric of the New Orleans Seventh Ward.

Artists have been adding exclamation points to the tattered urban fabric for years, as several examples found within the comfy confines of Battery Park City and elsewhere attest.

His recently published book, Canto a MATANZAS, is dedicated to the historical urban fabric and architecture of his native city of Matanzas, Cuba.

Our experience with the successful redevelopment of existing structures (many on the National and local Historic Registers) within a diverse Philadelphia urban fabric is one of our core competencies for our clients.

The Emirati Solar Decathlon House will be a «gatherer» of renewable energy resources and a positive contributor to the future growth of the UAE urban fabric.

The conference participants, which included a significant percentage of the country's architectural and urban planning heavyweights, also discussed issues such as transportation infrastructure in dense urban fabrics, population diversity in neighborhoods, open spaces and public buildings in cities, and the connection between high densities and tall buildings.

As Mikael puts it so elegantly, «they are best served at street level as integral threads woven into the rich urban fabric to contribute to the beautiful complexities of city life.

These offices provide a healthy, comfortable, and flexible work environment for employees while knitting into the larger urban fabric.

The New Town project team studied St. Charles and other communities in the region with vibrant urban fabrics, cataloging street widths, setback distances, building facades and other urban characteristics — the DNA of compact, walkable, mixed - use neighborhoods — at a block by block level.

Kim Córdova looks at recent evolutions in Francis Alÿs's interventions in the social and urban fabrics of cities, as he moves from Mexico City to a more international context.

An intimate, timber - frame structure houses weekly events centered on public interaction with the LA River, its users, and the surrounding urban fabric.

They call for «innovative designs that take into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale and the environment.»

A grassroots movement dedicated to protecting and preserving the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City, #SaveNYC officially endorses the Small Business Jobs Survival Act and rejects all other plans currently on the table.

THR: Can The Grandmaster also be seen as a chronicle of how Hong Kong became what it is, given that it ends with all the martial arts experts settling in the city and becoming part of its urban fabric?

A fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa, the destination has maintained its urban fabric and contains many fine buildings that reflect its particular culture.

Arriving in the centre, it is obvious it has retained its urban fabric, with the bustling town virtually intact.

He says denim is now such an urban fabric, after having such rural origins, what better way to capture everyday urban life?

While he started looking at how abstraction is embedded in the urban fabric, it has grown into a far more personal project: a psycho - geographical map of each city he visits.

As we begin thinking and accepting non-representational art, the urban fabric shall become a physical foundation whereby an image is materialized.»

He looks also to the relationship of Wave Hill to the urban fabric of New York, particularly to the increasing development of the city and the potential commoditization of natural resources and public amenities.

Architectural photographs by Berenice Abbott, commissioned for Changing New York by the Federal Art Project, document buildings slated for demolition and demonstrate how the diversity of people, places, and activity have shaped New York's urban fabric.

Jasmine Cannon's first exhibition - Urban Lives, Urban Fabric - is on now at Doggett Street Studio (85 Doggett Street, Newstead, Qld.

Revealing long - cherished ideals about social aspiration, urban fabric, identity and representation, his drawings of neo-Georgian developments will perform a lovingly critical dialogue with the historical objects from RIBA's own architecture collection.»

In the 1960s Inokuma began to paint works based on imagined aerial views of cities, reducing three dimensional topography to two dimensional patterns which at once suggest the energy and visual complexity of the urban fabric yet remain completely abstract.

Chosen by the artist, the archival material maps and situates Bronstein's drawings in the context of architectural practice through time, revealing long - cherished ideals about social aspiration, urban fabric, identity and representation.

Alimi Adewale explores issues related to the urban fabric, cities and the quotidian of its inhabitants.

The monograph is also a visual record of contemporary New York's urban fabric, indelibly transformed by the designer's innovative approach to environmental graphics and identity design: from MoMA to Charter Schools; from the High Line to Shake Shack.

All of these changes amplify and shift the features of the space, opening up new possibilities for imagining the shape of space within the urban fabric of Vancouver.

The Rio - based artist makes subtle changes to public space in order to sketch links between the urban fabric and political / economic power.

By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, wealth, prestige, and history to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery.

Although as early as 1979, graffiti artists Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were exhibiting in galleries, it was not until the 1980s that artists such as Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat began to be widely recognized by institutions, critics, and collectors, creating work that applied the styles they had cultivated on the urban fabric onto canvases and prints.

Her extensive travels in Europe, Mexico and South America and the art, architecture and urban fabric of those places bring inspiration for her artwork.

She has traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico and South America finding inspiration for her work in the art, architecture and urban fabric of these places.

The new installation expands on JR's provocative and often politically - charged public interventions that paste large - scale black - and - white photographs of individuals across cities» architecture, re-weaving a human presence into the urban fabric.

Mr. Stella, Mr. Goldberger writes, wants to make «special structures» that function as «exclamation points within the urban fabric.»

Inspired in part by the diversity and vital view of Philadelphia's urban fabric in Neff's painting, Odita asked artists to define «condition» broadly; «place» refers to the city of Philadelphia.

Focused on domesticity (and lack thereof), technology, and the urban fabric, they have a show at Native Informant in Mayfair and are also participating in a Frieze Project, part of a program sponsored by the fair itself.