Designed by architecture firm K-Studio, Barbouni, a beach restaurant at the Costa Navarino Resort in Greece features one of the coolest ceilings we’ve ever seen. Just watch when happens when a strong gust of wind passes through.
borderless and brilliant: teamlab’s dreamlike digital art museum is now open
set across a monumental 10,000 square meters and comprising more than 50 artworks in a single space, teamlab’smori building digital art museum is officially open to the public. the immersive institution features multiple 3-dimensional spaces that revolve around the theme of ‘borderless’, removing the boundaries between art and visitors. the japanese collective of ‘ultra-technologists’ have titled the entitled the extensive exhibition ‘teamlab borderless’ to describe the free-flowing nature of the boundary-free installations that transcend the various rooms, communicating with other artworks and even blending in with them.
zaha hadid architects releases video of king abdullah petroleum studies & research centre
a new video of the king abdullah petroleum studies and research center (KAPSARC) in riyadh, saudi arabia by zaha hadid architects has been released. filmed by german photographer hans georg esch, the 7-minute movie showcases the building from every angle, discovering its beauty and stateliness. completed in 2017, the project has been shortlisted in the category of higher education and research completed buildings at the world architecture festival 2018 happening later this year in amsterdam.
Postures by Carl Kleiner
Carl Kleiner creates sleek editorial content for fashion and lifestyle brands, and that sensibility shows in his photo and video series Postures which features artfully arranged tulips. Using minimal metal rods, bent at strategic ends and angles, Kleiner showcases the graceful curves of the flowers’ long necks and gently ruffled petals and leaves. A further sense of movement is instilled through the stop-motion video, which combines still photos of the blossoms’ subtle changes into a dramatic dance. You can see more from the Swedish photographer on Instagram and Vimeo.
diplomates amplifies the sounds of the runway with a towering timber speaker
in the background of menswear brand OAMC’s SS18 show at paris fashion week, behind the models stood a giant wooden contraption, created in order to amplify the sound of the runway. it was designed and handcrafted by the design firm diplomates, a pluri-disciplinary studio based between athens and paris that works across the fields of architecture, design and visual art.
Stackable, modular hardware synth makes grooving easy
Getting your groove going with a modular synth can involve lots of patch cables or a screen full of intimidating controls, depending on whether you’re playing with hardware or software. Or it could be a frightening collection of both. Industrial designer Colin Hearon set out to simplify the interface and has come up with an interactive, modular synthesis device called Tone Lab where players young or old stack up components to generate layers of sound.
the world’s biggest AI exhibit required 136 projectors and 20 million lines of text
inside foundry-turned-art-venue atelier des lumieres, the light, sound and sheer, monumental scale of three inagural exhibitions are luring in audiences. in one exhibit, gustav klimt’s work drips like melted gold from the lips of an ensnared couple, down to the flowery floor. in an exhibit by OUCHHH — poetic AI — geometric infinity patterns explode in humongous scale on the walls, ceiling and floor. these patterns and forms are an AI’s translation of no less than 20 million lines of text.
selgascano’s structure — photographed by iwan baan
floating on the canal, selgascano’s structure — photographed here by iwan baan — forms an organically-shaped habitat with hot pink and orange semi-translucent walls. the color of the pavilion’s façade generates filtered views of the surrounding water, and offers a sunny and serene spot to stop and rest. the structure’s sinuous silhouette snakes across the water and sits on a floating platform that offers an ideal place for adults and children to wade in or venture a splash in the canals.
the project embodies one of the main objectives of the bruges triennial 2018: generating encounters, and challenging the public to not only view artwork, but also to experience it and become part of the creative process.
OMA’s Ellen van Loon Discusses the Firm’s New Danish Architecture Center
Meet architect Ellen van Loon, the Dutch ‘design duchess’ of the world-renowned Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), who here talks about the ideas and “architectural contamination” that went into creating the new multifunctional BLOX building in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark: “I think it was the right task for us, this site, because nobody really knew what to do with it… and it had to do with re-inventing mixed-use, reinventing DAC and re-inventing this area of Copenhagen.”
floating water installation by martin leveque
martin leveque’s sanctuaire plays with light, water and mirror reflections to create a paradoxical experience and momentarily alter the reality of the spectator. the analog installation comprises a 45-degree mirror, cut in an anamorphic way to appear as a perfect circle of floating water from the viewer’s perspective.
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