May 2012
19 posts
"SOM Architects Call for a 100 Year Vision for the Great Lakes" →
treehugger.com
See also SOM’s Great Lakes Century blog: http://thegreatlakescenturyblog.som.com/
Public Art Project of the Day: Pools of Colored Light in Paris →
theatlanticcities.com
Photo: The Atlantic Cities
Rather than “contesting” the architecture or “challenging” the viewer, to use the banal phraseology of museum types, Buren’s work is at the mercy of the light from the Paris sky, the scudding clouds, the slanting sunlight as it enters the building.
Archive of Socially Engaged Practices →
creativetime.org
The Creative Time’s online database contains over 350 projects related to public realm and civic engagement from the last 20 years, categorized by a series of criteria.
"Gravity-Defying Land Art by Cornelia Konrads" →
thisiscolossal.com
Moment of Decision (2004) below is just one example of Cornelia Konrads’ site-based installations that seem to defy gravity. Click the link above to see more of her work at This is Colossal.
Photo: This is Colossal via Cornelia Konrads
"Urban Geodes" →
acommonname.com
Check out this street art project by Paige Smith (A Common Name). Paper “geodes” are sculpted to fill in small spaces.
Photo: A Common Name
