Showing posts with label structure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label structure. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2008
structure

London-based Grimshaw Architects has designed a soaring structure held aloft by pneumatic beams from the firm Airlight of Switzerland.

This new architectural installation is part Twenty-First century tensile structure and part tribute to Disney Studio's sci-fi cult film "The Black Hole". The installation is designed to warp the flow of an outdoor space with a feather-weight rendition of "the deadliest force in the Universe" constructed in tinted mylar resembling stained glass. It swirls above the outdoor courtyard all summer long. An assembly of 512 unique instances of a single but parametrically variable component, the canopy's extreme intricacy and repetitiveness pay homage to actor Maximilian Schell's character, Dr. Reinhardt, in "The Black Hole", a tyrant who wishes to harness the "power of the vortex" and possess "the great truth of the unknown!"
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Michel de Broin
| Superficial | 2004 |
Mirror, glue, cement / Vosges, Alsace, France
Upon invitation to reflect on the notion of transparency, that led me into the forest to envelop the contour of a large stone with fragments of mirror. The large stone, tucked away deep in the woods, became a reflective surface for its surroundings. In this play of splintered radiance, the rock disappears in its reflections. Because it reflects one cannot be mislead by its presence, yet we cannot seize it, rather it is the rock that reflects us.
by Michel de Broin
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