Egypt was the most represented non-GCC country, and Cityscape worked hard to promote the pavilion.
In his absence, Cityscape could be hard to beat.
During a recent stroll through Stratford's gleaming new cityscape it was hard to judge what is lasting change and what facade: For all the celebrations of a multicultural and multifaith Olympics, some Muslim residents fasting for Ramadan complained that their local mosque had been shut down by an Olympic roadblock, forcing them to travel 45 minutes to another district.
And as the cityscape changes, it is hard not to feel nostalgic.In a region that has lost much of its architectural heritage Yangon is the last city to have its colonial core intact.
The making-of documentary brags about its authentic wobbly bronze swords and meticulously perfect cityscapes, but it's hard to see why you'd go to the trouble if you're just going to fill the marketplace with llamas.
In America, this film language was transformed into the hard-boiled exegesis of Gotham as a cityscape against which the detective fiction of film noir and the fantasy world of the comic book superhero are played out.
It's hard to decide if the extravagant ugliness of the cityscape is a sign of vigor or of disease — a life force or an impending apocalypse.
It's hard to decide if the extravagant ugliness of the cityscape is a sign of vigor or of disease a life force or an impending apocalypse.
The brainchild of Hergé's second wife, Fanny Rodwell, who set up the Hergé Foundation in 1987, the museum shows off a rotating collection of original artwork and source materials, laying bare the hard work that Hergé put into his comics, with each speeding car, cityscape or policeman's uniform inspired by archived photographs and research trips in the field.
This may make it hard, initially, to appreciate Daina Higgins's idiosyncratic variation on Photo Realism: small, atmospheric, seemingly air-brushed cityscapes, mostly black and white, but sometimes delicately colored.
