Lulu Guinness Installation – London
The British fashion designer Lulu Guinness OBE is famous for her exquisite and witty handbag line which she launched in 1989. She has recently however forayed into the world of art by commissioning a full body pin art installation, located beneath London’s St John’s Gate. The installation puts a smile on your face, and will for many be reminiscent of one of their favorite childhood toys. As you can see from the pictures below, countless passersby have interacted with this outstanding Lulu Guinness creation.
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Radford Wallis Office Installation London
Land Securities a large property developer in the UK has recently redeveloped 80 Victoria Street London. The aim was to redevelop the space into modern and desirable offices. One problem which needed overcoming was how to show potential tenants the spatial delimitation of the offices in question. The massive area was to be divided into 4 separate offices, and so to aid visualization Radford Wallis was tasked with designing a creative way of dividing the area before the actual separators were built.
The scaled stationary has a maximum impact, and if you ask us we think it looks very cool indeed!
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Butterfly House at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art – Rome
This award winning installation, titled “are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” is by the Dutch art collective Bik Van Deer Pol. The collective comprises of Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol, both of which have worked under the name Bik Van Deer Pol collectively since 1995. The work won the Enel Contemporanea Award 2010 and was presented at the official opening of the new permanent wing of the MACRO museum of contemporary art in Rome. The installation is based on the famous Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe.
The Installation includes hundreds of butterflies within, which as a result of scientific assistance are able to exist within what is virtually a natural habitat. Visitors are encouraged to enter the work and to undergo the sensory experience directly, but in order to protect the ideal micro climate there is a strict maximum number of people allowed inside at any given time. According to Designboom ‘the artists reflect on the relationship between man and nature starting with butterflies, now understood to be among the species most sensitive to climate change, so much so that they can be seen as a true indicator of environmental conditions.’
Hospital Club – Covent Garden
Before the Hospital Club was a private members’ club, it was quite literally a hospital. This exclusive members only club was created when Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) paired up with Dave Stewart (one half of the Eurythmics). Membership for individuals based in London is £550pa, with a £150 joining fee. There is a discount available for those under 30, the cost being £300 with no joining fee. The Hospital Club is unique because it is the only club specifically designed for individuals within the creative industry, and the decor of the club clearly reverberates with this aim. According to them, the Covent Garden location is a place for members to “meet, work, create and enjoy themselves”. Apart from the various bars and dining rooms, the Hospital club also offers a cinema, TV and recording studios, meeting rooms and conference capabilities.
Laminate Curtains – Window Art
Created for a new housing area in helsinki, finland. ‘colour curtains’ is a set of 30 paintings laminated on glass, cut out of various shapes installed on the corridor windows of the building. the paintings were done in water colours using a print glass technique where the images are laminated between two 6mm glass panels and cut into shape.
[ Article Source: DesignBoom ]
Working like a Machine? Kahn empathises.
The Body Machines below is based on a poster by the artist Fritz Kahn from 1927. After a hard day at work I couldn’t help but relate to the subject who revealed all for this picture. Kahn cleverly depicts the nervous system as a complex electronic signalling system, complete with buttons, charts and busy workers. Fritz Kahn’s books and illustrations explored the inner machinery of the human body, using metaphors of modern industrial life. Kahn turned the brain into a complex factory with light projectors, conveyor belts, secretaries and cinema screens; he showed the journeys of blood cells as locomotives encircling the globe; and he compared bones to modern building materials such as reinforced concrete.
[ Article Source : LikeCool ]
Playing the Building
Creative Time presents Playing the building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
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