"What Is This Thing Called Love? ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical ""Wake Up and Dream"". It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions. ""Wake Up and Dream"" ran for 263 shows in London. The show was also noticed in New York, and the critics praised Tilly Losch's performance of the song. The show was produced on Broadway in December 1929; in the American rendition, ""What Is This Thing Called"
"Ocean Financial Centre in Singapore. And an ensemble piece entitled ""I, You, She, He..."" with three figures composed of the letters, each seated on large flat boulders, can be seen at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From May to mid-August 2011 the work ""Echo"" was displayed in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. In November 2012, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York unveiled a 32-ton sculpture by Plensa entitled ""Laura"". The tall sculpture is composed of 20 massive pieces of marble from the south of Spain. Jaume Plensa Jaume Plensa (; born 1955)"
"Jaume Plensa Jaume Plensa (; born 1955) is a Spanish artist and sculptor. Plensa was born in Barcelona, Catalonia and studied art there, in the ""Llotja"" School and in the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. His works include the ""Crown Fountain"" at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It opened in July 2004. The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces. Another Plensa piece is ""Blake in Gateshead"","
"a £12 million allowance for grouting of old mine workings. Construction of the East End Regeneration Route which will connect the M74 Northern Extensions with the M8 motorway at the Provan Gas Works interchange with the M80 motorway. The Phase 1 and Phase 2 from M74 to Parkhead began in 2008 and completed in 2012, but Phase 3 from Parkhead to M80 will not be started until after 2014. It will make use of existing stretches of road and filler sections on currently derelict land. A new sculpture is planned near Gretna called the Star of Caledonia. One intention is"
"McBeath. Jennings lives and works in Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Martin Jennings Martin Jennings is a British sculptor, born in 1957, who works in the figurative tradition. His statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station was unveiled in 2007 and the statue of Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon Interchange station was presented in 2010. A bronze monument by Jennings commemorating the pioneer plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe was unveiled on the High Street, East Grinstead, in June 2014. Jennings' own father, Michael Jennings, a tank commander badly injured near Eindhoven in 1944,"
"Plensa is best known in the American Midwest for his Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park. ""Spillover II"" was chosen from nearly 100 other artists' works because it seemed the most appropriate for the location. Shorewood Village president Guy Johnson described it as a ""wonderful gift (that) has given us an unprecedented and extraordinary opportunity to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Shorewood"". Jaume Plensa was present at the sculpture's dedication on September 2010. He thanked Shorewood for giving one of his ""children"" a beautiful home, and expressed satisfaction that his artwork was placed near Lake Michigan,"
"structure tall, weighing , which has been cast to resemble the head and neck of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation. The structure is coated in sparkling white Spanish dolomite, as a contrast to the coal which used to be mined here. It cost nearly £1.9 million and it is hoped it will become as powerful a symbol in North West England as Antony Gormley's ""Angel of the North"" is in North East England. Jaume Plensa himself stated ""When I first came to the site I immediately thought something coming out of the earth was needed. I"
"a monument to the industry of the area. The renovation was directed by the architect Jordi Badia, founder and director of BAAS architecture studio. This project consisted of restoring two current factory buildings and constructing a new one to link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which, as a whole, forms a courtyard. This square contains a Jaume Plensa sculpture named ""Dell'Arte"" (1990), a donation from the Vila Casas Foundation to the city of Barcelona in 2012. All the interventions were made in situ using concrete in line with the old structure. Outside, the lime mortar which"
"Spillover II Spillover II is a public artwork by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa. It is installed in Atwater Park in Shorewood, Wisconsin, United States. It depicts an crouching man whose open form is made of steel letters. It is on a concrete base, and was publicly dedicated on September 21, 2010. ""Spillover II"" is composed of steel letters that are tack welded together. In Plensa's words, ""The letters that form the open framework suggest that language is our primary tool for experiencing the world and each other, and that we are, essentially, both limited and empowered by this abstract means"
"sculptures in each connected city are identical (apart from the addition of low-relief bronze designs), marking the historical connections between locations whilst creating a new one in a process of healing. His sculptures on Littlehaven Promenade, South Shields and Keel Square, Sunderland, both contributed to winning entries into the 2015 Northern Design Awards. His largest work, 'Encounter', stands at junction 11 of the M62 Motorway at Birchwood, and incorporates telecommunications aerials within the metalwork. Stephen Broadbent Stephen Broadbent is a British sculptor, specialising in public art. He was born in Wroughton, Wiltshire in 1961 and educated at Liverpool Blue Coat"
"that he preferred to adjust the letters to avoid any future misinterpretations of his work. The sculpture was voluntarily modified at the Richard Gray Art Gallery by Plensa's representatives, who replaced a letter ""E"" with the letter ""B"". The sculpture was then returned to Atwater Park on Saturday, January 16, 2016 Spillover II Spillover II is a public artwork by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa. It is installed in Atwater Park in Shorewood, Wisconsin, United States. It depicts an crouching man whose open form is made of steel letters. It is on a concrete base, and was publicly dedicated on September"
"along the Complutense Avenue (""Vía Complutense"") and bordering the old city walls. This makes it the longest in its class of all Europe, with more than two kilometers long. There are interesting statues of important artists such as Amadeo Gabino, José Lamiel, Pablo Serrano or Úrculo, among others. The collection includes works by the following sculptors: Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares The Museum of Outdoor Sculpture of Alcala de Henares (""Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares"") is a permanent exhibition of contemporary art in public Alcalá de Henares (Madrid - Spain),"
"Statue of Queen Victoria, St Helens The Statue of Queen Victoria stands on the western side of Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, England. It was created after the death of Queen Victoria and given to the town by Colonel William Windle Pilkington, mayor of St Helens in 1902, and a member of the Pilkington glass manufacturers in the town. Pilkington commissioned George Frampton to design it. Frampton used the same model for the figure of the queen for two other statues, but placed it on thrones and pedestals of different designs. The St Helens statue was unveiled by the Earl"
"Martin Jennings Martin Jennings is a British sculptor, born in 1957, who works in the figurative tradition. His statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station was unveiled in 2007 and the statue of Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon Interchange station was presented in 2010. A bronze monument by Jennings commemorating the pioneer plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe was unveiled on the High Street, East Grinstead, in June 2014. Jennings' own father, Michael Jennings, a tank commander badly injured near Eindhoven in 1944, was treated for burns by McIndoe’s team during the war. The monument depicts a seated airman, his"
"Notes Citations Sources Statue of Queen Victoria, St Helens The Statue of Queen Victoria stands on the western side of Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, England. It was created after the death of Queen Victoria and given to the town by Colonel William Windle Pilkington, mayor of St Helens in 1902, and a member of the Pilkington glass manufacturers in the town. Pilkington commissioned George Frampton to design it. Frampton used the same model for the figure of the queen for two other statues, but placed it on thrones and pedestals of different designs. The St Helens statue was unveiled"
"M62 motorway The M62 is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds; of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester. The road is part of the unsigned Euroroutes E20 (Shannon to Saint Petersburg) and E22 (Holyhead to Ishim). The motorway, which was first proposed in the 1930s, and conceived as two separate routes, was opened in stages between 1971 and 1976, with construction beginning at Pole Moor and finishing at that time in Tarbock on the outskirts of Liverpool. The motorway absorbed the northern end of the Stretford-Eccles"
"Benn, the politician. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. McKenzie, R. ""Public Sculpture of Glasgow"". Liverpool University Press, 2001. Alexander Stoddart Alexander ""Sandy"" Stoddart (born 1959) is a Scottish sculptor, who, since 2008, has been the Queen's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland. He works primarily on figurative sculpture in clay within the neoclassical tradition. Stoddart is best known for his civic monuments, including bronze statues of David Hume and Adam Smith, philosophers during the Scottish Enlightenment, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, and others of James Clerk Maxwell, William Henry Playfair and John"
"will be visible from the nearby A74(M) motorway. Instead of using road signs, the surrounding landscape is to be used as a way to recognise it and to turn crossing the border into a memorable experience. It will also not be far from the River Sark. Estimates of the height of the sculpture range from to projected to be twice the size of the ""Angel of the North"". The design is meant to pay homage to innovation within Scotland and be inspired by inventors and innovators, in particular prominent Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who was famous for his work"
"The Kelpies The Kelpies are 30-metre-high horse-head sculptures featuring kelpies, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. The sculptures form a gateway at the eastern entrance to the Forth and Clyde canal, and the new canal extension built as part of The Helix land transformation project. ""The Kelpies"" are a monument to horse powered heritage across Scotland. The sculptures"
"area, which will be known as St John's Quarter, is expected to be completed by 2022. The Manchester International Festival's new Factory venue is set to open alongside the MSI at the end of 2019 as part of the redevelopment. The MSI intend to build a new £6 million Special Exhibition Gallery underneath the arches of the 1830 viaduct and in the 1830 Warehouse. Architectural firm Carmody Groarke won a competition to design the new gallery which is set to be complete by 2018. In July 2016 the council stated that, along with development partner Allied London, they had been"
"Alexander Stoddart Alexander ""Sandy"" Stoddart (born 1959) is a Scottish sculptor, who, since 2008, has been the Queen's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland. He works primarily on figurative sculpture in clay within the neoclassical tradition. Stoddart is best known for his civic monuments, including bronze statues of David Hume and Adam Smith, philosophers during the Scottish Enlightenment, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, and others of James Clerk Maxwell, William Henry Playfair and John Witherspoon. Stoddart says of his own motivation, ""My great ambition is to do sculpture for Scotland"", primarily through large civic monuments to figures from the country's"
"occupied by Watkinson Way, a road providing an easterly bypass for Widnes and connecting the Silver Jubilee Bridge with the M62 motorway. The base of the swing bridge which carried the railway over the canal is still present in Spike Island. As of 2009, where the line runs near the St Helens Retail Park, the embankment has been reinforced and is said to be for a rail link for visitors from out of town to the new Saints RLFC stadium. It is also rumoured that the track on Robins Lane will be relaid to connect through to St Helens Junction."
"de Atlántida, in December 2014, as a tribute to her father, named ""Un sol para Atlántida"". The original idea was that of Páez Vilaró himself, who proposed incorporating his landscaping into the Rambla de Atlántida, and after his death, the Canary Islands decided to pay homage to him with a public space in his memory and an evocative sculpture. The sculpture was made with the financial support of the company Gerdau Laisa SA. It consists of iron reinforcement for the foundations and bases, and weighs 20 tons. The Ministry of Tourism and Sports allocated money for the paving, lighting, and"
"between the East Lancashire Road and the M58 and is part of the transport route from Southport, in Sefton, through West Lancashire, through St Helens to the M62 Junction 7 at Rainhill. A major development in communication was the opening of the dual-carriageway St Helens Linkway (classified as part of the A570) in 1994, which linked the town centre directly with the M62 (at Rainhill). The A572 takes traffic from the town centre through Parr to Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows. In 2010 St Helens was proclaimed ""UK's most car-friendly town"" measured on variables such as ""petrol prices, parking costs and the"
"Still life II (Julio González) Still Life II is a sculpture by Catalan artist Juli González done in the 1920s, and currently exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. González moved to Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century and focussed on painting and metalwork. It was not until the end of the 1920s that he opted definitively for sculpture and became a notable figure in the European avant-gardes. Based on his formal experiments using iron, he created a sculptural language of his own. According to the National Art Museum of Catalonia, ""Still Life II"" illustrates his masterly"
"the project which will stand as a totemic symbol of British manufacturing and innovation. The sculpture and Interpretation Hub is widely supported by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and a coalition of local companies and other organisations. It will stand on land provided by FCC Environment, (one of the world's largest waste services companies) next to the M1 motorway at Kimberworth in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. A 99-year lease has been generously provided by the landowners and work is expected to begin in 2017. The figure will be made from stainless steel, recognising the important development of stainless steel by Harry"
"by September 2016 no progress had been announced. ""Temenos"" was the first sculpture for the Tees Valley Giants project to be announced. It is approximately 110 m long and 50 m high and cost £2.7 million. The steel structure consists of a pole, a circular ring and an oval ring, all held together by steel wire. The structure is situated in the Middlehaven area of Middlesbrough, close to where the Transporter bridge is located; construction work started in autumn 2008, was completed by spring 2010, and officially presented to the people of Middlesbrough on 10 June 2010. The name 'Temenos'"
"logo on one of the ramps, which was condemned as vandalism and a political stunt by Angela Constance, a local MSP. Pyramids (Bathgate) The Pyramids are a land sculpture alongside the M8 motorway at Bathgate. Originally named the ""Sawtooth Ramps"" it was sponsored by Motorola and formed part of the M8 Art Project. The sculpture was created by artist Patricia Leighton in 1993. It is long and consists of seven high ramps made of earth and seeded with grass. The artist based the design on local geographic features (drumlins) and the shape of the surrounding bings. Sheep are grazed on"
"Messenger (Plymouth sculpture) Messenger is a planned sculpture by the artist Joseph Hiller that will be sited outside the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. The piece is 7 meters high and 9 meters wide, weighing 8 tonnes, and depicts a crouching female actor. The sculpture cost £500,000 and was made with the process of lost-wax casting by the Castle Fine Arts foundry in the village of Llanrhaeadr-Ym-Mochnant in Powys, Wales. The piece is made from 200 individual bronze panels and is the largest bronze sculpture by volume in the United Kingdom. The piece is based upon a single brief pose by a"
"neighborhood of Seattle, WA and houses the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Allen Institute for Cell Science and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group. The architects of the building were Perkins + Will and construction was conducted by GLY. The building located at 615 Westlake Ave N was dedicated on December 4, 2015, and was a runner up for building of the year by the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. Outside the building is Mirall, a sculpture by Jaume Plensa installed in October 2015. The art work features two large figures, each about 12 feet tall (3.6 metres). Allen"
"the most monumental of his sculpture is called ""Synthesis"", 12 meters high, located in San Pedro Alcántara, representing the patron saint San Pedro de Alcántara. Initially located in the plaza of the Church, was transferred in early nineties to the edge of the main road, at the junction with the Mediterranean Avenue. However, in 2008 was withdrawn because of the danger he posed the very next work of burying the highway, so it was moved to a dump where he was left to fend for two years. In 2010 he was again put in value, repainted, repaired and placed in"
"it was pointed out that the city spends two-thirds that amount every year for temporary works for Sydney New Year's Eve. On 29 August 2017, a six to four majority of city councillors voted to approve the sculpture. It was expected to be completed by March 2019, in time for the opening of the George Street light rail line. Immediate reactions to the announcement of the sculpture were broadly supportive, with positive responses from professional critics, one of whom wrote: ""its dance like thrown ribbon in the sky, will excite Sydney's municipal heart, a lasso to the heavens"". Popular reaction"
"until his death on November 4, 1958. His last sculpture was ""Estática"" (1954–1958). Most of his works are now held by the Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa in Olot and by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona. Other works are held by the Pompidou Centre (Paris), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago de Chile, Chile), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Havana, Cuba), Musée des Augustins (Toulouse, France), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). Josep Clarà Josep Clarà i Ayats (1878–1958) was a Spanish Catalan sculptor."