Behold: the Galleria department store in the Korean city of Gwanggyo, 25km south of Seoul.
Designed by OMA/Chris van Duijn, the facade features a replicating mosaic of precision cut triangular stones and bulging triangular opal windows apparently inspired in part by the nearby Suwon Gwanggyo Lake Park.
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O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
Michael Smith writes:
Clery’s, a robust nineteenth-century building, is being demolished behind facade, as is revealed by daylight coming through the front. All that embodied energy junked. Why?
Previously: Behind The Clock
An enamel pin business born of a love of architecture – some of the world’s most iconic building façades recreated in pleasing minimalist 2D pin brooches.
Above: Geisel Library, California; Pagoda House, Tel Aviv; Eames House, California; Pantheon, Italy; Villa Savoye, France; clockwise from top left: Guaranty Building, Buffalo NY; VitraHaus, Germany; Notre Dame, Paris; house on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv and Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo.
Currently crowdfunding and accepting advance orders (Busáras, the Casino at Marino, Supemac’s in Moate and so forth) for the façades of your choice
The façade of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway brought to life in a continuous motion feature conjoured from a single photograph by animator Ismael Sans-Pena, who sez of it:
The idea behind the film was to find the innate movement inherit in still forms. Every sculpture has movement in it, and it is the task of the animator to discover it. It was through the process of editing my imagery that I discovered that a single image would suffice to create the animation. The film was made by zooming into the image and panning row by row while making sure that different architectural motives aligned in every increment. This also gave a structure to the film.
Skull in the Mirror: a 19th century French chateau (abandoned for the last 30 years and lately donated to the Town Hall) transformed by artist Okuda San Miguel as part of last week’s Festival LaBel Valette organised by Urban Art Paris.
Gullah tweetz:
Inverse gentrification..looks old timesy but it’s just a Paddy Powers camouflaged in Portobello [Dublin 8]
A 2001 piece entitled ‘Love letters Building’ by the German conceptual artist HA Schult (b.1939) for which the artist invited the public to submit love letters.
He received 150,000, enlarging 35,000 to wrap the exterior of a former post office building in Berlin with the remaining 115,000 letters displayed inside.
