Pirated Architecture

Posted: December 30, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

heyitsnoah:

Apparently Zaha Hadid is working on a new building in China and it’s being pirated … AS SHE’S BUILDING THE ORIGINAL. This sounds like a weird William Gibson future world:

But the appeal of the Prtizker Prize winner’s experimental architecture, especially since the unveiling of her glowing, crystalline Guangzhou Opera House two years ago, has expanded so explosively that a contingent of pirate architects and construction teams in southern China is now building a carbon copy of one of Hadid’s Beijing projects.
What’s worse, Hadid said in an interview, she is now being forced to race these pirates to complete her original project first.

[Via Ed Cotton]

.. via NoahBrier.com: http://bit.ly/12UWA24 ..

Cheers to pirates.

Pirated Architecture

Posted: December 7, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

wildcat2030:

That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving. It evokes both the surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters while reminding us of the ephemerality of art and nature. (via Indoor Clouds | Best Inventions of the Year 2012 | TIME.com)