To many of its listeners, hip-hop has been a realm of musical and verbal innovation, transforming grim reality into art.
The SoHo pioneers, like the artists of Buckwick today, rolled up their shirt sleeves, sheet-rocked walls, gerry-rigged plumbing, and transformed grim manufacturing spaces.
But this is just one step on the road towards her ultimate ambition - to transform their grim little transport caff into an upscale martini bar.
For nine years, a foundation and a pair of Milanese architects have been working to transform the grim, cavernous depot —all but abandoned after the war — into the Memorial of the Shoah.
To help transform this grim reality, the Platform for Urban Centers was established in 94 communities in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Itaquaquecetuba.
Still, Akinti has acquitted himself with substantial élan and transformed a grim place into a thing of beauty.
Through these works, Ms. Bhuta transformed otherwise grim spaces into fragrant environments where other living forms (in this case wasps) could find a home.
The euphoria of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, during which intellectuals and activists peacefully transformed a grim Soviet satellite into a vibrant democracy, was not to last forever.
Cemeteries were transformed from grim charnel grounds to earthly Edens, where temple-tombs popped up like mushrooms, and transcendent meetings took place.
After it was announced that only about 69,000 jobs were created during May — and that the unemployment rate rose slightly, to 8.2 percent — some observers who had expressed cautious optimism as recently as 8 29 a.m. were instantly transformed into grim Cassandras.
