Concrete arcades fan out from the restored Nikolaikirche, with concrete gables, concrete columns and archways, all made from the familiar panels.
This young artist is interested in the surfaces of coffee-shop chains, fantasy kitchens, architect's offices and public conveniences, and his work is made from materials familiar from these very 21st-century phenomena: plastic, laminated hardboard and buffed industrial sheets of metal.
"If you have an alternative fruit-based product made from something people are familiar with, they're more inclined to try it," he said.
We're all pretty familiar with objects made from styrofoam.
To wit: zebra domes were a familiar-tasting dessert made from hazelnut mousse that had been covered with a distinctively striped icing.
Of course, the most familiar artificial computing systems are made from silicon chips or similar materials, whereas the human body is made from flesh and blood.
"The Seaboard" has the shape of a familiar keyboard, but the keys are made from a flexible, soft material.
The familiar wooden benches of the subway station are replaced by curvy seats made from silver plastic.
Today, Grant Achatz, chef of Alinea in Chicago, uses agar-agar, which is a hydrocolloid made from seaweed that is best known for growing bacteria in petri dishes, and gelatin, a more familiar hydrocolloid made from collagen in meat, to make transparent sheets that he drapes over hot foods.
In Experiment 2 on the second trial of each block of trials a novel object was paired with an object made familiar from just one previous sample trial (e.g. Trials 2, 7, 13 and 17, Experiment 2a; Table 2).
