Sentences with phrase «where modern architecture»

This is evident in The chance to be someone else (2011), where modern architecture repeatedly attempts to break down the barriers between the outside world and its interiors.

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With that sharp, smooth polish made perfectly to highlight the impressive modern architecture of the sprawling, almost suspiciously quiet city throughout, this is one case where «style over substance» is something that proves to the benefit of the overall picture.

Good school buildings today have modern architecture, with open areas where students can gather together, work in smaller studying places around the building such as the library.

These family palaces, pressed together in an ancient street, frozen in the modern Italian bureaucracy, are prison architecture on the outside, but they contain great and graceful spaces, high silent halls no one ever sees, draped with rotting, rain - streaked silk where lesser works of the great Renaissance masters hang in the dark for years, and are illuminated by the lightning after the draperies collapse.

The comfortable 3 - star ibis Dubai Deira City Centre hotel lies in the heart of Deira City Centre, where striking modern architecture meets traditional oriental design.

Despite its embrace of modern culture, Serbia has managed to retain its traditional roots, which you can see in Novi Sad's wonderful Gothic and Baroque architecture, in Nis with its old cobbled streets and Bohemian character, and in Belgrade itself where the old fortress echoes its past.

Kallayaan is a sober and elegant villa where modern and exotic architecture are mixed harmoniously.

The comfortable 3 - star ibis Dubai Deira City Centre hotel lies in the heart of Deira City Centre, where striking modern architecture meets traditional...

See the 17th - century Delfshaven, the port form where the Dutch Pilgrim Fathers sailed, and admire the stunning modern architecture, visit top museums like the Kunsthal (modern art, design by Rem Koolhaas) and Boysmans van Beuningen (Old Masters to contemporary), indulge in a spot of shopping or just enjoy Rotterdam's great restaurants, including its funky Markthal market.

The brilliant skylines shows off modern and Moorish architecture, modern shopping malls galore — one with its own ski resort — and away from all this there is still the souq where you can haggle for something oriental.

Venture into the heart of the city, where you'll discover ancient architecture alongside modern construction in one of the most charming area of Barcelona.

Then take an early train down the coast to Valencia (3 hours) where you have the afternoon and next morning to explore the city's mix of ancient and modern architecture, and try a paella in the city where it was first created.

In contrast, on this Holland tour you'll also overnight in Rotterdam, a young city with the world's busiest port and known for its modern architecture and design.A highlight of this tour through the Netherlands is a visit to the fascinating Aalsmeer flower auction, where over 20 million plants and flowers are sold daily, however, from April to mid-May, the Aalsmeer flower auction will be replaced by the spectacular visit 70 - acre Keukenhof garden, to see the incredible display of colors from seven million flower bulbs.

In the heart of Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district, where vibrant street life meets modern architecture and entertainment, lies The Mira, one of the city's most elegant design hotels.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts marks its brand's entry into the Philippines with Fairmont Makati.An address of uncomprimising excellence, Fairmont Makati offers 280 spacious deluxe rooms and suites, including Fairmont Gold, the hotel's exclusive hotel within a hotel.The hotel's modern architecture features sophisticated style alongside the rich, cultural characteristics of Filipino design.A focal point of each guestroom is the floor - to - ceiling glass windows overlooking the bustling city.A wide array of flavours is on offer at Fairmont Makati featuring an innovative all - day dining restaurant where guests can enjoy international cuisine with five culinary theaters, a pastry boutique offering a tantalizing selection of freshly baked bread, desserts, pralines and pastries, a lounge serving afternoon tea and after dinner snacks, and the famous Long Bar and Writers Bar.

With unlimited rail travel in Finland take in modern architecture in Helsinki, wild national parks and its fabulous Lakeland, where the scenery of thousands of lakes will dazzle.

The splendor of Abu Dhabi's modern architecture is breathtaking, and you'll have the best views with your hop - on hop - off tour, where you'll sit in air - conditioned comfort on board an open - top double - decker bus.

Our insider tip for 2018: Visit Belfast and discover a brand - new city, where historical buildings meet modern architecture and traditional liquor saloons compete with hip hotels and bars.

Perhaps not as famous as the historical landmarks, modern architecture or vibrant nightlife of Vietnam's largest city, sometimes you need to escape the bustling crowds to visit some of Vietnam's most pristine beaches, where locals and savvy expats frequent during weekends and public holidays.

Samaja Beachside Villas is a perfect luxury hotel where the traditional Balinese architecture and modern designs presented through the whole building.

Later on, LeWitt was hired in one architecture office as a graphic designer and of the crucial importance for his career was the engagement at the Museum of Modern Art where he was introduced to the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Jasper Johns.

RB It came out of my interest in «The Western Round Table on Modern Art» meetings where a group of men from art, literature, music, architecture, and other fields — among them were Marcel Duchamp, Arnold Schoenberg, and Frank Lloyd Wright — discussed artistic practice.

The Medici: Makers of Modern Art How the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today.

She has given lectures for the Institut Für Raumexperimente, an education research project established by Studio Olafur Eliasson in collaboration with the Berlin University of the Arts, for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art on new sensitivities in contemporary architecture, and at the Center for the Humanities at City University of New York where she discussed Pragmatism with Joan Richardson.

Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, influencing the likes of I.M. Pei, Lawrence Halprin and Paul Rudolph, among others; Herbert Bayer organized and designed a major exhibition of Bauhaus work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1938 - 9; Mies van der Rohe relocated to Chicago, where he enjoyed the patronage of Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)- one of the most influential American architects of his day, with whom he later designed the landmark Seagram Building - and became one of the leading figures in American architecture; Moholy - Nagy also settled in Chicago and set up the New Bauhaus school with philanthropist Walter Paepcke.

2015 Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, Panel Discussion with Quentin Bajac and Roxana Marcoci; artists Ilit Azoulay, Lucas Blalock, David Hartt, and Katja Novitskova; and artist collective DIS, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA Core Program Lecture: David Hartt, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA Artist's talk, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA Where architecture Meets Art, Panel discussion with Amanda Williams, Jessica Stockholder, David Hartt, moderated by Yesomi Umolu, Public program for The Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA Artist's talk, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Kasten in Context: New Peers: Barbara Kasten in conversation with David Hartt, Takeshi Murata, and Sara VanDerBeek, Institute of Contemporary Art, The University of Pennsylvania, PA; USA

LeBlanc is kind enough to note my criticisms of shipping container architecture in the article, where I go on about them being «too small, too expensive, and too toxic»; Daniel Kroft of Giant Containers rebuts them, noting that they have lots of steel lying around to reinforce openings, air conditioning is easy with modern mini-split units, and spray - foam insulation does wonders at keeping it all airtight.

In modern architectures, there are inviolable spaces where data passes through in raw, unencrypted form, such as inside the kernel, the most central software unit in the architecture, or in system memory carefully set aside from other applications.