Sentences with phrase «urban streetscape»

The phrase "urban streetscape" refers to the overall appearance and design of the streets in a city or town. It includes elements like buildings, sidewalks, signs, trees, and other features that create the visual character of the urban environment. Full definition
Bradford's improvisational approach to his surfaces has obvious precedents in Abstract Expressionism, while his process evokes such Nouveaux Réalisme artists as Jacques Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella, who used commercial media and décollage to explore the symbolic dimension of urban streetscapes.
During her time as a 2014 Winter Workspace artist, McKenna observed and photographed Wave Hill's gardens, woodlands and surrounding urban streetscapes.
There are some fine non-Soutine paintings, like Avigdor Arikha's picture of colorful socks on a wood surface; Frank Auerbach's small, thickly painted, nearly abstract urban streetscape; and Lucien Freud's painting of backyard shrubbery.
Richard Billingham, the photographer who has made art out of images of his dysfunctional family, in their tower block home which his alcoholic father Ray rarely lives, is also nominated for his recent startling change of direction to deserted urban streetscapes under blazing blue skies.
According to a release from Supervisor Aaron Peskin's office, it was built to adapt to San Francisco's evolving urban streetscape and Vision Zero goals.
But talk to them about their own little patch of environment — about the river at the bottom of their village, or the landscape that surrounds where they live, or the urban streetscape and the way in which it is fashioned — and they become really passionate.
It shows up in the green - yellow - red of traffic lights, the garish neon of an urban streetscape, and the shimmering colors of an evening gown.
Sometimes, these juxtapositions provide stark studies in materiality: for instance, the reflective black surface of Johnson's wax, soap and tile work The Collapse (2012), evoking an urban streetscape, hangs near a recent Robert Irwin (Black Painting with Blue Edge, 2008 — 09), which seems, at once, to attract and repel light.
With even more big changes are underway with the urban streetscape getting a complete redesign by WXY Architecture, Untapped Cities writer Daniel London had a chance to take a look at what lies behind the great clock in the Cooper Union Building:
Miller uses collage and paint to create large - scale works, which explore the urban streetscape within a broader historical context.
They probably can't even build that bank up at the front property to help build an urban streetscape; it is probably where it is because that is where the planners want it.
With developers searching for opportunities and the urban streetscape continuing to evolve, finding available land to build on remains a rare sale offering in Manhattan — but finding an opportunity isn't impossible.
Similar to its 1960s contemporaries, Willis Tower was originally built atop a base to separate the urban streetscape from the building and minimize pedestrian traffic near the entry.
Mall owners also are looking for ways to bring the energy of an urban streetscape into the mall interior by introducing restaurants around the center court to create more of a lounge or sidewalk café atmosphere.
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