architecture
Read more about “The City of Tomorrow”, known as Bo01 and located in Malmo, Sweden. The city was redeveloped in 2000, relies 100% on sustainable energy, increases biodiversity in flora and fauna, and reduced motorized transportation with promotion of walking and cycling.
Janet Echleman designs huge nets that illuminates the night skies of various cities around the world. Echleman was named the Architectural Digest 2012 Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces.”
Austrian bus stops designed for Amateur Architecture Studio project, BUS:STOP.
These are nicer than my apartment.
Rolleiflex Coffee House in South Korea.
“Soo Sunny Parks installation Unwoven Light animates Rice Gallerys expansive space, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow, and brilliant color. Suspended from the walls and ceiling, thirty-seven individually sculpted units are arranged as a graceful, twisting flow of abstract form.”
-Rice Gallery
Seoul, Korea
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James Welling - Glass House (2006-9)
Artist’s statement:
“When Frank Lloyd Wright visited the Glass House, as Philip Johnson tells it, he was unsure whether he was inside or outside. He said that he didn’t know whether or not to take his hat off. Another quote by Johnson on the house: ‘Nature is the most expensive wallpaper.’ I think the greatest thing about the house is that you’re ‘inside’ once you step on the property. The Glass House is, in truth, a large structure of landscape architecture and a dozen buildings and sculptures.
In 2005, I started making multiple exposures using six filters (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow) for photographs I called ‘hexachromes’. These images recorded vibrantly colored shadows on succulents in my front yard.
I started shooting the Glass House in 2006 with the same filters I used for ‘hexachromes’, but that technique really depended on motion and shadows to produce multicolored images. Nothing moved over the three days, so I decided to hold the filters in front of the lens, sometimes in pairs. This is how I began to incorporate arbitrary colors into pictures of the Glass House. I went back seven more times over the following three years.
I’ve been using the word filter as a noun, but it’s also a verb. A filter lets some wavelengths of light through and certain kinds of information to seep in. In addition to colored filters, I used clear glass, clear plastic, fogged plastic, pieces of glass that were slightly uneven or tinted, and finally a diffraction filter that breaks light into spectrums. Now I bring everything with me when I shoot, but initially I introduced new filters one by one. When I realized I could make the grass red or make sun flares, splatters, and different types of visual activity in front of this supposedly transparent house, or box, the project became a laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity, and color.”
