Archive for the ‘Public Art’ Category
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Article source: Pro Materia
GLASS IS TOMORROW is a European project, which aims at establishing a more fluid exchange of knowledge and competencies between glass and design professionals in the north, south, east and west of Europe. Supported by the ‘Culture’ (2007-2013) program of the European Union, GLASS IS TOMORROW promotes a high level of craft and design in contemporary glass. The project was launched on June 1st 2011, and three workshops were organized, in Nuutajärvi (FI), Nový Bor (CZ), Meisenthal (FR), during which glassblowers and designers teamed up to produce glass pieces. Glass aesthetics and techniques were explored by the tandems in order to develop new typologies of everyday objects. The project opened up new potentialities and generated dialogue about the conception, production and distribution of glass pieces by experimenting around three themes: Stackability, Silver Glass and Out of the Mould.The prototypes created during the workshops as well as the GLASS IS TOMORROW project are now presented to the public through a touring exhibition and publication, featuring pictures and videos signed by James Bort and photography by Anne Croquet and Guy Rebmeister.
 Collar Vases Collection : Image Courtesy Pro Materia
- Architects: Pro Materia
- Project: Glass Is Tomorrow
- Location: Paris, France
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Tags: France, Paris
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Article source: Grimshaw
Cutty Sark epitomises the great age of sail; she is the last surviving tea clipper. Her remarkable story is tangible evidence of the centuries long importance of sea-trade to this country and to the growth of London as the world’s pre-eminent port and trading centre. Built as a tea clipper, where speed to market was critical, it is the combination of sail and hull form which gave Cutty Sark her edge. The hull shape is defined by the revolutionary 19th century composite iron and timber shipbuilding technique.
 Image Courtesy Jim Stephenson
- Architects: Grimshaw
- Project: Cutty Sark
- Location: London, England
- Client: The Cutty Sark Trust
- Partner: Chris Nash
- Associate Director: Diane Metcalfe
- Project Architects: Jorrin Ten-Have, Den Farnworth
- Architect Design: Joe Laslett
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Tags: England, London
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Article source: VeeV Design
Situated in one of the ranges of the Berkeley Hills, this project is located in a 1950s modern house, designed to embrace a spectacular view on one side while wrapping around an inner courtyard garden pushed against an upper stone retaining wall. This interior courtyard is the subject of design consideration for an installation driven by the desire to define the garden space with a visual destination from the interior rooms.
 Image Courtesy Reid Yalom
- Architects: VeeV Design
- Project: Field Rupture
- Location: Berkeley, California
- Design Team: Raveevarn Choksombatchai (principal), Robbie Crabtree, Jeremy Steiner
- Photography: Reid Yalom, VeeV Design
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Tags: Berkeley, California
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Article source: Like Architects
“FROZEN TREES” is a temporary installation for Christmas lighting in D. Pedro IV square in Lisbon. It builds an illuminated, frozen and fractal Christmas landscape that affects and alters the path of passers by.
Thirty cylinders – structured, self-sufficient streetlights – are placed throughout the square, drawing a new landscape and context and inviting the visitors to new spatial experiences.
 Image Courtesy Dinis Sottomayor
- Architects: Like Architects / Diogo Aguiar + Teresa Otto
- Project: Frozen Trees – Ephemeral Installation for the Christmas Lighting of the Square D. Pedro IV
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Client: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (cm-lisboa.pt), MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda (mude.pt)
- Construction: OutrosMercadus
- Photography: FG+SG Fotografia de arquitectura | Architecture photography, Dinis Sottomayor
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Tags: Lisbon, Portugal
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Article source: BanG studio
For the festival of Sukkot (Wednesday, October 12 – Wednesday, October 19) Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn has commissioned a community sukkah to be designed by Babak Bryan, AIA & Henry Grosman, Principals of B-an-G Studio and winners of 2010′s Sukkah City competition. The duo’s design Fractured Bubble, was selected as the People’s Choice Sukkah of New York City at the 2010 competition hosted by ReBoot in Union Square, NYC.
 Inside
- Architects: BanG studio
- Project: Int the Field
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Software used: Rhino with Grasshopper as well as 3DMax and Photoshop for rendering
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Tags: Brooklyn, NY
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Article source: HOLDUP
KOBE ART BIENNALE
Art in a Container International Exhibition
Through an art history occasionally bound to the outside world, Japanese developed an ability to absorb and reformulate elements of foreign culture to complement their aesthetic preferences. Eventually more pervious, Japan shared its heritage with the rest of the world, hence representing one of the utmost place dedicated to art.
 Image Courtesy HOLDUP
- Architects: HOLDUP Architecture
- Project: FROM OFF TO ON
- Location: Kobe, Japan
- Design Team: Guillaume Jounet + Remy Bardin
- Project manager on site: Daiki Nakagawa + Shinya Kaneko
- Interactive design: Romé de la bigne
- Event: ART KOBE BIENNALE
- Dates: 1ST October 2011 to 23RD November 2011Budget: 5700€
- Dimensions: L=12m x l=2.5m x H=2,5m
- Photography: HOLDUP
- Video: HOLDUP
- Support: Kobe Design University
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Tags: Japan, Kobe
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Article source: HOLDUP
The Waving Wall of Chalkwell is an art installation, commissioned by Metal, comprising of over 1200, 19L water cooler bottles*, demonstrating the vast journey water takes as well as the amount of water used in the production of certain products; a few of which have been depicted in small cabinets, along with information regarding their water consumption.
“The average Brit only sees 3% of the water that they consume.”
 Image Courtesy HOLDUP
- Architects: HOLDUP Architect
- Project: BLOO METAL: The Waving Wall of Chalkwell
- Location:Southend-on-Sea, UK
- Design Team: Guillaume Jounet + Remy Bardin
- Event: Solomon Monk’s Pump House at METAL
- Client: BLOO NATION
- Year: 2011
- Software used: 3DSMax
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Tags: Southend-on-Sea, UK
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Article source: Rene Gonzalez Architect
Calmly perched 60 feet in the air like a floating cloud. Alchemist is a floating glass box inserted into the fifth floor of a parking structure designed by Herzog and de Meuron and Open to the Miami Beach sky. Inside, its reflective materials capture the colors and energy of the surrounding environment and make the space radiate in such a way that it is visible from many vantage points throughout Miami Beach.
 Image Courtesy Michael Stavaridis (more…)
Tags: Florida, Miami Beach
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Article source: Mecanoo Architecten
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The Wei-Wu-Ying Metropolitan Park, the site of a former military complex, is the location for the new Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts of Taiwan. The complex features a concert hall, an opera house, a theatre, a recital hall, and a large outdoor seating area. Hosting a total of 6,000 seats and the most technologically advanced theatre facilities, the new cultural complex will draw world class performing artists and theatre companies.
 Meca Taiwan Final Day with balloons
- Architects:Mecanoo Architecten
- Project:Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts
- Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Design: 2007-2009
- Execution: 2010-2013
- Client: Preparatory Office of The Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan Architect: Mecanoo architecten, Delft, The Netherlands
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Tags: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Article source: Space Specific Installations
Space Specific Installations recently displayed their exhibition of “Space Specific Installations” in the Kerla Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery of Kerala, India. The architects filled the gallery with figures that intruded upon the space occupied by visitors and forced interactions between the work and the users of the space using a wide range of materials. The exhibition ran from May4th-10th so if you missed it be sure to look through the gallery for images of Lijo Jos and Reny Lijo’s work after the break!
 Image Courtesy Praveen Mohandas
- Architect: Lijo Jos and Reny Lijo
- Project: Space Specific Installations
- Location: Kerala, India
- Photographs: Praveen Mohandas
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Tags: India, Kerala
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