Archive for April, 2007
The Fat House
The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK, presented some interesting works of Erwin Wurm. The most terrifying is “The Fat House”, a life-sized house that’s very fat. Everything is weird about it, from the roof which expands to cover it all, to the video playing inside, asking questions like “Am I a house?”. […]
Haunted houses
In the Taiwanese area, called San Zhi, there is an entire residential area abandoned. It seems it was constructed in the early ’80, but it was never finished because of the numerous work accidents. It should have been a luxurious vacation spot for the rich people in Taipei but nobody wanted to live there when […]
The bridge as a change
When entering the cathedral you find yourself in front of an empty expanse of water with only one step at its edge. As you walk on, steps rise out of the lake, one by one, and fall back as you pass. You just feel like walking on water while alone in the silence of an […]
Play state statues
Some intriguing urban forms that have an amazing story. Six students from the Royal College of Art (design section) have envisioned and physically created a landscape of human state “furniture”. In the dim light of the early evening a group of PSP players (Play Station Portable) covered their heads with coats just for a better […]
The tallest building in Paris?
After 120 years, the Eiffel Tower is threatened to lose its title as the tallest structure in Paris. The Californian architect Thom Mayne (winner of the 2005 Pritzker prize) envisioned a new office block in La Defense district, that will be 300m high, only 20 cm smaller than the famous tower. This sky-scraper project, along […]
Stair illusion
Just another example of tricky urban art. This looks almost impossible. Still it’s not a real 3D stair it’s just one of Panya Clark Espinal’s illusions painted in one of Toronto’s subway stations. And if you find this hard to believe have a look at that man standing just in front of you. There’s no […]
