The heavy forms defy gravity -- balconies float in space, turning buildings into sculptures.
With air raids turning buildings into powder, with the Taliban conscripting young men for the front lines, Adnan Muhammad was pondering somewhat the opposite.
From an aesthetic and cultural point of view, she says, turning buildings into mosques needn't always be a disaster, and making them into secular museums isn't a panacea.
With her sister, she had already engaged in the craze for turning buildings "back in time," constructing a "Pompeian court" and a thatched cottage on the grounds of the family estate.
Trevor Hemmings, the bricklayer turned building tycoon turned racecourse magnate, is the man that jump racing is increasingly looking at to get National Hunt action back on the card permanently at Windsor.
LaunchNow.co is a new startup that turns building startups into a game.
The three students' complementary vantage points lead them to play a game for which they each take turns building on the same story, sentence by sentence.
If climate change produces more storms, Mr. Ryan may get more chances to turn building-up into tearing-down.
"The idea from the beginning was to turn buildings into sculptures that speak to our shared humanity".
Some 70 per cent of Kobani city was destroyed, mostly by US air strikes that turned buildings held by Isis into fragments of pulverised concrete.
He's had dinghies with striped sails racing on Grasmere, made art from bunting and awnings, and turned buildings inside out with visual conundrums.
