As the state remade the downtown, it razed town houses and elegant if faded commercial buildings, replacing them with government-issue cement architecture.
As someone who has never left Benin, who is used to the red clay and monochromatic cement architecture of its cities, the landscapes of the movie, which recall northern Ethiopia, were pure fantasy.
In short, the strange concert of robots, cement, and architecture should make for some cool structures with especially sculptural elements.
These insidiously hummable four- or five- or six-note figures act as musical cement, binding the architecture together, while also creating psychological unease, through insistent repetition.
The announcement of seven experts who will form its new high level advisory group, together with a six million euro grant to Europe's national academies, cements a new architecture for independent scientific advice within the European Commission.
The program's nine months of tours, discussions and online activities are designed to celebrate and preserve L.A.'s modern architecture, cementing the notion that the sites are, in fact, historic.
With its gritty industrial architecture and raw cement floors, Williamsburg once offered the sort of dump that only an artist could love.
Modernism = evil James Bond has done more than anyone to cement the link between modern architecture and evil masterminds – Ian Fleming even named one of his baddies after his architect neighbour, Erno Goldfinger – but Hollywood in general has done the same.
For years, even when I was a student in Simla, I used to read about his dislike of modern architecture and the cement buildings and I entirely agreed with him.
A sinuous three-story building of wood, glass and cement designed by the area architecture firm Geis & Brantner will be the new home of the Franz Keller winemaking operation, as well as a new restaurant.
So, sleep before learning is critical; but you also need to sleep after learning, and to take that new information and essentially cement it into the neural architecture of the brain.
