Sentences with phrase «water towers»

One of only two surviving water towers of its type in Norfolk, the property offers the opportunity to develop a truly unique home.

As such, the town has seen fit to honor it's former inhabitant by making the town's two water towers resemble a coffee pot and a cup on a saucer.»

I used to believe that water towers were an emergency water source.

Serviced / installed / inspected and calibrated commercial and residential HVACR systems, including steam and hot water boilers, forced air furnaces, roof top units, air conditioners / chillers / refrigeration units, and water towers.

The glaciers — «water towers of the world» — are the most visible indicators that we are now in the first phase of global warming, Thompson said.

The glaciers in the Himalayas — the largest concentration of ice outside of the two poles — have been dubbed Asia's «water towers» because of their large water storage capacity.

This is especially in the degraded areas of the five forested water towers of Kenya where over 90 % of all water in the country originates and about 70 % of the populations derive their livelihoods.

Illegal encroachment, grazing and drought have ravaged the Country's forests, threatening water supply as the main water towers face eminent danger from not only illegal logging, but also invasion by livestock herds.

While others work on improving batteries and turning air compression into an energy - storage solution, the ARES team is re-purposing the simple ideas behind water towers to address a gap in our solar - power infrastructure.

The Himalayan glaciers are the water towers of Asia, and the source of many of the world's great rivers: The Yangtze, the Ganges, the Indus and [continue reading...]

This is a flagship national corporate tree planting campaign by NIC Bank, the Safaricom M - pesa Foundation, Radio Africa, the Royal media Services in partnership Green Belt Movement with the objective of raising the importance of the ecological values of indigenous forests, riparian areas and water towers in sustaining the human systems and economic development.

Mt. Kenya Forest is not only one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country, it also plays a critical role in water catchment and is one of the five main «water towers» of Kenya

The New York Times Magazine did a photo spread of some rather extreme conversions of churches, shipping containers and water towers and even caves, like the happy family shown above with an umbrella over the pool table to control the sand.

Yesterday on NBC's «Today» show they had a piece about water towers and the various decorations and paint jobs that are on them.

People that don't know why there are water towers are supposed to understand atmospheric water vapor, CO3 (as in CaCO3!

Rashidi's concept takes advantage of the city's existing water towers that were designed to hold thousands of pounds of water and thus could handle any forces the turbines exert, said Richard Steiner, who is working with Rashidi.

This examination of the Bechers» oeuvre encompasses five of their most common subjects: blast furnaces, cooling towers, gas tanks, water towers, and winding towers.

Its true - to - life focus on modernist architectural subjects (like factories, water towers, silos - even skyscrapers), made Precisionism a species of Realism, and, in fact, it was sometimes referred to as Cubist - Realism.

Objects included barns, water towers, coal tipples, cooling towers, grain elevators, coal bunkers, coke ovens, oil refineries, blast furnaces, gas tanks, storage silos, and warehouses.

Shot in an austere, documentary style and often organized in grids, their images of water towers, gas tanks, and factories are immediately recognizable and decisively influenced generations of their students at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954) among them.

Abstracted brick walkways are topped with sneakers in profile, water towers stand like mountains and stylized pigeons sit comfortably atop the Brooklyn Bridge.

Water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, coal mine tipples, and grain elevators — each of their photographs isolates a large structure and describes it with the frontality and exactitude of an engineer's diagram.

In one body of work, Kahn reproduced the iconic photographs of gas holders, water towers and other industrial structures taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher during the 1960s, repeatedly layering each photo to create a composite image that resembles a crosshatched drawing or blurry film still.

Jacquette re-arranged the buildings and used a simple outline for the fire escape in contrast to the multi-layered surfaces of New York's water towers and building facades.

We saw paintings that curved away from the wall, paintings with things hanging from them; we saw mobiles, first - edition concrete poetry books, Bernd and Hilla Becher's photos of weird water towers, and Carl Andre's shiny floor tiles that we could actually walk on without a guard hauling us away.

Called «This Land is Your Land,» from the 1940 Woody Guthrie folk song, it will consist of glowing neon words reflected within three water towers installed throughout the park.

The Bechers, influenced by Sander's approach, made typological «portraits» of functional architecture — water towers, grain elevators — beginning in 1959.

Similarly, Stay in Love features a single image by Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their extensive photographic typologies of water towers and other industrial structures.

He has installed sheep in the grass outside a former Getty filling station in Chelsea (a work by the artist François - Xavier Lalanne), water towers containing neon messages in Madison Square Park (by Iván Navarro) and colorful numbers signifying life's stages up Park Avenue (by Robert Indiana).

Judah recreates his scenes from scores of miniature buildings, immaculately constructed from foam board, complete with solar panels, water towers and staircases, which he systematically destroys after fixing them onto canvas.

Inspired by the Neue Sachlichkeit photographers August Sander and Albert Renger - Patzsch, as well by as vernacular photography, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented vanishing American and European industrial architecture — blast furnaces, water towers, silos, and the like — cataloguing them by type.

New York's water towers famously once served as a backdrop for choreographer Trisha Brown and were captured by the German husband - and - wife industrial photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, but they've never before been used on such a grand scale.

Numerous themes in Steiger's work reference this railroad including the caboose, train signals, water towers and the tall stark elevator buildings built directly alongside the tracks.

These 1970's students added modern technical ability to the 1920's German school of New Objectivity as promoted by their mutual teachers Bernd and Hiller Becher who bland images of water towers and coal bunkers demystified photography into something more present and banal.

The artist has said he selected water towers for the installation because he likes ``... the idea of a reservoir of water.»

The rooftops and urban vistas recall another extended series of German photography, the water towers of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new building in Manhattan's meatpacking district on May 1, it's the big things everyone will notice first: the sweeping views west to the Hudson River; the romantic silhouettes of Manhattan's wooden water towers; the four outdoor terraces for presenting sculptures, performances and movie screenings; and the tiered profile of its steel - paneled facade, intentionally reminiscent of the Whitney's Modernist, granite - clad Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue, which had been the museum's home since 1966.

In an unusual treatment, Miguel Angel Garcia's southern view reveals our unique skyline punctuated with water towers.

Already its route offers a choice between water towers and wealthy condos, like a parable of gentrification.

It formed the backdrop to a number of historical works on show, turning messy cartwheels behind a sober set of Bernd and Hilla Becher photographs of water towers, as well as colour co-ordinating with a pair of Paul Thek's «Big Bang Paintings» (1987 — 88).

The Bechers are celebrated for their deadpan images of industrial architecture (the water towers are best known), indebted to the 1920s German realist movement known as New Objectivity.

On the other end of the spectrum was Spanish artist Miguel Angel Garcia's pigment print View from the Empire State building Looking South, a scenic photograph abstracted by the painted red highlights of water towers throughout the city view.

At Phillips in London on 8 March, an arrangement of 15 water towers went for # 293,000.

Alongside the city's famous water towers are pools, sunbathers, tennis courts, art, restaurants, gardens, and solar panels.

Electrical plants, water towers, and propane tanks stranded in the desolate New Mexican desert inform Shona Macdonald's work, created during a year - long residency in the isolated Southeastern corner of that state.

I've seen cars explode for absolutely no reason, water towers stationed 300 feet in the air, and this.

The décor at this eco-friendly venue is defined by reclaimed materials — antique bricks and wooden wall panels from state water towers — and guests can even enjoy free rides in a house Tesla.

It's almost an art to figuring out what town or city you're in by fading paint on water towers, or street names, or even old salons are sometimes named after the town.

Several different portals — large circles guests could walk through — were set up around the room, mimicking different parts of CocoCay, like Daredevil's Peak, a pair of water towers with 13 slides, and Oasis Lagoon, a freshwater pool area.

This is a flagship national corporate tree planting campaign by NIC Bank, the Safaricom M - pesa Foundation, Radio Africa, the Royal media Services in partnership Green Belt Movement with the objective of raising the importance of the ecological values of indigenous forests, riparian areas and water towers in sustaining the human systems and economic development.