Showing posts with label other than archi:art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label other than archi:art. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2011
"Dezeen archive: the 3D-printed bikini by Continuum Fashion(bottom left) has been our most popular design story of the week, so we’ve compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about 3D printing." See all the stories...
Images & passage via Dezeen
Saturday, August 29, 2009
"At Crown Point high above Burnley town UK the ‘Singing-Ringing Tree’ – a unique musical sculpture in the form of a tree appears to bend against the endless winds that pass over the hills. Designed by award-winning architects Tonkin-Liu. The wind produces a low and mellow hum through pipes which are tuned so that they do not disturb the wildlife..."Sunday, June 28, 2009
"...'avenue of light' by cliff garten studio will open on june 25, 2009 in the city of fort worth, USA.rising 36 feet above the streetscape, the six 'avenue of light' sculptures are both transparent and opaque, depending on the viewer’s position and time of day. each sculpture is made of 100 stainless steel plates, whose forms are derived from architectural details in the nearby texas & pacific terminal, an art deco landmark. stacked onto armatures, the plates create torqued volumes that contain and reflect sunlight by day, and focus beams of colored LED lights at night..." to find out more...
passage and images from cliff garten studio
Friday, June 26, 2009
"It seems that more than one person works as JR, and who or what JR is isn't made clear by the web site. Regardless, JR is doing amazing work calling attention to the plight of women living in conditions of extreme poverty, violence, rape, and other challenges in Africa and South America. The images below are from a month of taking photographs and working in a Rio de Janeiro favela. JR photographed the faces of women from the area, enlarged the photos, and then put them up giving the hills of the favela the women's giant watchful gaze." check out more of his stunning works!images from www.jr-art.net
passage from unhoused.livejournal.com
Friday, May 15, 2009
Definitely something more sophisticated than today's graffiti that you can think of. Just like tatoos that once have been in the "dark" corner, now have seen the light and somehow became a popular body art in today's society. Same as the grafitti. Just the matter of how you perceive it and the "legal" way it can be...Saturday, May 2, 2009
"Our friends at LA and Athens based design collaborative Drifting City are proud to announce that Dreamgrove, its web page and interactive garden project, has been nominated for Best NetArt Site in the 13th Annual Webby Awards.
At http://www.dreamgrove.org you are invited to write your dreams—what you saw in your sleep—and plant them in a public, virtual field. There you can read others’ dreams. At the interactive garden dream texts become a soundscape: you can hear them through the trees. A beta-version of the garden was constructed and exhibited at the Athens Byzantine Museum main courtyard in November 2008, as part of the “Unbuilt: international architecture research events programme.” Dreamgrove was designed and produced by Petros Babasikas, Chrissou Voulgari and Farzad Moré, of Drifting City, a design collaborative based in Athens and Los Angeles, producing Architecture, Media, and Public Space..." to find out more...
passage from Bustler
image from Dreamgrove
Friday, February 27, 2009
Get to know B. Börkur Eiríksson online and was impressed by his way illustrating the "future abondon cities", which is my own impression. Are we just gonna leave our world like this??? Images from http://www.borkurart.com/
Monday, February 16, 2009
Anish Kapoor's art works are always great and his contributions are simply more than an artist or sculpter:
"Throughout his career, Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers. Kapoor insists that this body of work is neither pure sculpture nor pure architecture, "they are all about a certain kind of religious space"... Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. Most often, the intention is to engage the viewer, evoking mystery through the works' dark cavities, awe through their size and simple beauty, tactility through their inviting surfaces and fascination through their reflective facades. His early pieces rely on powder pigment to cover the works and the floor around them. This practice was inspired by the mounds of brightly coloured pigment in the markets and temples of India. His later works are made of solid, quarried stone, many of which have carved apertures and cavities, often alluding to, and playing with, dualities(earth-sky, matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, visible-invisible, conscious-unconscious, male-female and body-mind). His most recent works are mirror-like, reflecting or distorting the viewer and surroundings..."to find out more...
Images from http://www.56leonardtribeca.com/#/anish-kapoor
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
56 Leonardo would be another stunning high-rise project of 2008 besides the Dubai Rotating Tower. If the Dubai Rotating Tower is so-called dynamic arhictecture, then I would call this 56 Leonardo as "artistic architecture". Really like the part where the architect, Herzog & de Meuron integrate the art work of the scultor, Anish Kapoor to form this overall master piece.
"The latest skyscraper proposal for Manhattan looks as if it may achieve something impossible, perhaps evenabsurd: the synthesis of a number of entirely contradictoryarchitectures...A solid, geometric base knits it tightly into the urban fabric ofthe city block, while a smoother shaft takes it up intoorbit and a crown begins to dematerialise and reduce its volume as it hits the sky. The surprise here, though, is thelack of a sheath, the smooth envelope, whether boxy orrocket-like, within which skyscrapers are usuallycontained. Here the architects have stacked a series ofirregular boxes, 145 separate and unique apartments –each a response to what is going on inside – and formedand jiggled them into an extraordinary tower...If the effect on the skyline is startlingly dematerialised, its presence at street level is made manifestly materialby the inclusion of a huge sculpture...a strange, super-shiny blob that appears to be being squeezed out from under the skyscraper..."
Don't miss the very interesting flash presentation and more info from the articles and news at http://www.56leonardtribeca.com/
passage from financial time, by Edwin Heathcote
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