Shapes resembling faces, people, and animals presented themselves to the artist in the chipped and cracked mortar and brick walls of the 150 -
year old factory building.
Not exact matches
The
build quality is literally from a different century, and this ten -
year -
old and well - used example feels almost as tight as when it left the
factory.
John Warburton explains his fruitful pre-WW1 relationship with the Luton
factory and the car's début at Waddington Fell / Auto - biography: Ronald «Steady» Barker — Matthew Bell travels to Wiltshire to meet the incorrigible 93 -
year -
old motoring journalist and learn about his life and career / 10EX: the full - bore Phantom — An experimental car that was the first post-WW1 Rolls - Royce
built purely for speed, David Burgess-Wise drives this fascinating machine / Vintage Revival Montlhéry — In a two - part article, Robin Batchelor describes The Automobile's journey to Montlhéry while David Burgess-Wise reports on the action as the banked circuit reverberated again to the sound of prewar cars and motorcycles / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on the restoration of a 1947 Dellow, one of only two survivors of the four original prototypes for this highly effective trials car
The plant that
builds them is a far cry from the Longbridge of
old, once the largest car
factory in Europe and capable of turning out 345,000 vehicles a
year.
Five
years ago we transformed an
older factory building into work / gallery space for artists and now have have ceramic studios, hot and cold glass, woodworking facilities and other amenities.
The group secured Peace II funding through the Local Strategy Partnership and spent the next two
years building the project, formulating an initial exhibition programme and supervising the refurbishment of the basement of the
Old City Shirt
Factory.
Owner of the 12 -
year -
old Brill Gallery, located in a converted
factory building less than a mile from Mass MoCA, Brill acknowledges that his gallery exists because of the museum and said, «I love Mass MoCA.»
Indeed, within the 798 Art Zone, a complex of 50 -
year -
old decommissioned military
factory buildings boasting a unique Bauhaus - inspired architectural style, one can find the spirit of modern - day creatives and their works, numerous shows, events, design cafes, tailor shops and even the Beijing Biennale, as well as a number of renowned Beijing venues, some of the best on Asian soil — many of which we are showcasing in this very article!
But for Joseph C. Thompson, the museum's folksy director who's nursed Mass MoCA into existence over the past 30
years, the Wilson
building marks something else as well: the museum's most convincing bid yet to turn its out - of - the - way campus of
old factories into an international magnet for contemporary visual and performing arts.
A 50 -
year -
old decommissioned military complex of
factory buildings, complete with leftover Mao slogans on the walls, 798 is named after Factory # 798, just one of the former factories in the complex that now houses a thriving artistic com
factory buildings, complete with leftover Mao slogans on the walls, 798 is named after
Factory # 798, just one of the former factories in the complex that now houses a thriving artistic com
Factory # 798, just one of the former
factories in the complex that now houses a thriving artistic community.
More surprising
building conversions: Fish
Factory Converted Into Residence Water Tower Repurposed Into House With Lots Of Stairs What Can This 300
Year Old French Fortress Tell Us About Green Architecture?
But in fact, there is a much
older technology for
building with wood, that warehouses and
factories were
built out of 150
years ago with a fancy new name: Nail - Laminated Timber, or NLT.
The three -
year -
old company had initially said Vallejo would be its second production facility, which it would
build after it finished constructing a 3 million - square - foot
factory in North Las Vegas, at a cost of around $ 1 billion.