In clear weather the rainbow will appear twice a day, for 20 minutes, and are created using sunlight, renewable energy and 100% captured rainwater.
The project was a decade in the making and represents a collaboration between irrigation and rainwater harvesting experts, Lindsay Corporation, structural and mechanical engineers, atmospheric scientists, Bemis Center and artist Michael Jones McKean
Quite a beautiful project that will start in early June and run until 15th September.
Hovering like ghostly aparitions of architecture these fabric installations by Korean artist Do Ho Suh create new environments within his exhibition using silk and metal structures.
The artist’s architectural sculptures have been brought together for an exhibition called ‘Home Within Home‘ at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea.
Previously on display at New York’s Lehmann Maupin Gallery, they explore the idea of home and the sense of cultural displacement that comes with immigrating to a new place.
Experimenting with materials in architecture to achieve environmental benefits has led to the development of many outstanding innovations that have changed the way we interact with buildings.
Now architect Doris Kim Sung, assistant professor of architecture at the USC School of Architecture, is experimenting with how a building can interact with its environment through the materials used in its construction.
Her latest installation, “Bloom”, is 20-foot tall and made from 14,000 tiny sheets of metal that open and close with the sun manipulating the light within the structure.
Sung discovered a new use for a material usually used in thermostat coils that responds to temperature changes. The metal alloy, called “thermobimetal”, is made of two sheets of metal laminated together. Each metal expands at a different rate when heated, curling as the temperature rises and flattening when cooled.
The metal sheets curl upwards with the sun creating moving shaded areas within the installation when needed. Sung believes that it could be used to create canopies that close when the sun is above or vents that open when the air becomes too stuffy and is now working on ways to integrate thermobimetal with standard building components.
It looks fantastic and is a mixture of art and architecture that addresses an environmental need. See a video of the installation below and more can be found on their blog.
Ever looked at the Post-It notes on your desk and wondered what else you could do with them?
Well, Yo Shimada of Tato Architects did and decided to create an architectural structure, making a giant installation of 30,000 Post-Its in collaboration with students from the Kyoto University of Art and Design.
This neon cell-like creation is located at the Artzone Gallery in Kyoto and resembles a tiny metropolis.
From now until September bus stops all over London will be brought to life with digital art and inspiring messages, but you will only be able to see them if you are on the top deck of a bus.
Bus-Tops is an interactive art project, one of 12 around the UK commissioned for Artists Taking the Lead – an initiative set up by the Cultural Olympiad 2012 and Arts Council England to showcase the nation’s creativity to the world.
The concept is to to make London bus journeys more engaging and inspiring by installing LED screens on top of 30 bus shelters. The screens are being fitted with red and black LED lights and show designs from professional artists and members of the public.
Find out more about this project and where you can find the installations by chicking here.
Built and installed by the UK’s only LEGO Certified Professional, Duncan Titmarsh of Bright Bricks, the tree stands at 10 metres high and is made entirely out of LEGO bricks making it the tallest LEGO tree ever made. This imposing Christmas tree is made with 600,000 LEGO bricks and 172 LEGO branches.
Of course, no Christmas tree is complete without Christmas baubles and LEGO sought the help of children from Edith Neville Primary School, Camden, and Copenhagen Primary School, Islington, as well as the Harpenden Explorer Scouts Unit to make the 1,200 LEGO baubles that will adorn the tree.
The tree is being built on the lower concorse next to the champagne bar, but is so tall, standing at 12m high that it stretches right up through and above the upper level of the station where the platforms are located. The tree branches were built by a team of Bright Bricks builders off-site and are being assembled with the trunk at the Station. Due to the location of the tree the build can only be done at night. Progress started on Wednesday the 9th November and it is expected to be completed by the 24th November.
On the 24th a celebrity will be on hand to switch on the lights and officially complete the tree model. The tree will remain at the station until the 2nd of January.
To see more about the LEGO Christmas tree visit Demotix or the St Pancras website.
‘Lumiere‘ is an exhibition which will illuminate Durham’s historical buildings, streets and bridges for four nights in November; including a special exhibition of the interactive light artwork ‘Liquid Space‘.
LIQUID SPACE 6.0 is an interactive space that becomes physically bigger, smaller, and brighter in relation to human behavior. As an organic fusion of mechanisms, embedded electronics, sound, and LEDs, the artwork creates a playful dialogue with its visitors.
The first version of LIQUID SPACE 6.0 premiered in Japan as a commission for the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. The project’s behavior evolves in relation to its visitors, creating a sensual coexistence. It can now be enjoyed across the city of Durham over four spectacular days.
Lumiere 2011 Artichoke, 17-20 November, Durham UK. To find out more about the exhibition, including a progamme of events as well as places to stay please visit www.lumieredurham.co.uk or plusMOOD.
A new digitally fabricated installation by Jonathan Henry Arseni Zaitev from Anonymous Studio called “Alexandria”, is to be situated in the Architecture Gallery of the Southern Polytechnic State University. It is to open at the State University’s biannual exhibition of young professional work as a part of the “Summer Salon 2010”. Alexandria hovers above the floor and drapes across the gallery, transforming a canopy into an intriguing installation. “The symbolic disillusionment with the political datum of the ground relinquishes the installation from prescriptive idealizations. Alexandria’s canopy will not be tainted by agendas but will be appropriated but those who are most likely to contribute to it,” explained the studio.
Tokujin Yoshioka’s tank of flying feathers is on show at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Below you can see a video of the installation as shown on Dezeen.tv - Beautiful
A Finnish pop-up restaurant and concept space, Hel Yes!, will be created for London Design Week. It will blend the tastes and sights of Finland and is created by former HIM keyboard player Antto Melasniemi and London-based Finns, Mia Wallenius and Klaus Haapaniemi.
Hel Yes! will be open from 15 September-3 October 2010.
The ROLLS installation at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Minato-ku, Tokyo has been design by Japanese designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato. The designer describes the installation – ‘The characteristic of the material used for this installation, which is aluminium, is that it is very thin and easily bent by hands, yet harder than cloth or paper. Therefore it possesses both soft and hard qualities. By winding and sometimes extending this single, long strip of aluminum from the entrance to the back-end of the store, it creates a beautiful waving form, changing its function and features as the material strength changes. This flexible quality of the material represents a gentle connection between the softness of clothes and hardness of architecture.’
The first phase of the regeneration of the Speirs Locks area in Glasgow has been completed with the opening of the Garscube Link, a new public realm intervention which re-connects North Glasgow back to the city centre for pedestrians and cyclists. The project was designed by 7N Architects and RankinFraser Landscape Architecture for the Glasgow Canal Regeneration Partnership (GCRP) and The Garscube Link has been christened “The Phoenix Flowers”, a reference to the former Phoenix Park which once occupied the site before the construction of the motorway.
The latest installation by Arne Quinze is Camille and spans the Seine in Rouen. Stretching across the Boieldieu bridge, it divides the city and consists of an entanglement of colourful wooden beams and slats that are meant to ‘provoke dialogue and bring people together’. At 120 metres long and 110 tons it is supported by eighteen concrete footings and has been erected for the summer festival Rouen Impressionnée.
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