Sentence examples for granite cube from inspiring English sources
Martin Cook and Gary Breeze created their stark and highly unusual garden within a giant granite cube, in a representation of a world turned inside out.
Sir Richard Burton, the 19th-century British adventurer, translator of "The Arabian Nights" and the "Kama Sutra" and self-described "amateur barbarian," was an illicit pilgrim to the sacred black granite cube.
The best fresh garden award was claimed by the Marble and Granite centre with Antithesis of Sarcophagi, a stark and highly unusual garden within a giant 44-tonne granite cube, created by Martin Cook and Gary Breeze.
The exhibition, opening in January, will also feature the work of contemporary Saudi artists such as Ahmed Mater, who has created an installation with magnets and iron filings to symbolise hundreds of thousands of pilgrims circumambulating the Ka'bah, the black granite cube in Mecca thought to be built by Abraham and his son Ishmael.
The centre of assembly houses a black granite cube – a symbolic altar with engraving from Book of Job 16:18 "Earth, don't cover my blood.
(A detail of his granite cubes outside a wall designed by the architect I. M. Pei is on page 44.) His knowledge, says Fleischner, who is 41, comes from questioning and learning from craftsmen, from working and making mistakes, and from poring over pictures and visiting historical sites (Pompeiian courtyards and Antonio Gaudi's Barcelona buildings, to name two examples).
But there are officials here who hope for the day when all 43 structures, which rise like great granite cubes on 57 acres of central‐city land, will be torn down, the moun tains of concrete, steel and brick carted away and the name of Pruitt‐Igoe erased for ever from the St . Louismap.
Even Yale's campus was not sacrosanct: in the mid-sixties, he was horrified by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a marvellous granite sugar cube, describing it in conversation with the sculptor Claes Oldenburg as a tabletop radio next to Isamu Noguchi's sunken sculpture court, the ashtray.
In one gallery you come upon chest-high black granite-faced cubes; peering over the edges you discover interiors, made of cast resin, resembling sections of muddy earth and root-lined holes in the ground.
Back in Mecca, pilgrims bid farewell to the Kaaba, the cube-shaped granite building that is the holiest site in Islam.
