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alecshao:

Matteo Pugliese

langst:

In collaboration with sound artist Spencer Topel, sculptor Soo Sunny Park has created a radiant interactive installation that audibly responds to movement. The large-scale piece, entitled Capturing Resonance, hangs from the third floor ceiling of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Massachusetts, illuminating the tight corridors.

caitlindeane:

invisiblexarchive:

Superadobe form houses, originally developed by Nader Khalili

Making a conscious effort to head out to Southern California this summer/fall to go to the Cal Earth Art Institute to make these! Universe, let’s make this happen! YEAH!

floresenelatico:

Selected works by land artist Nils Udo

”The artist works on site using found berries, leaves, sticks, the movement of water, the growth of plants. Each piece is in response to the landscape and materials he finds around him. The beauty of nature and the gently altered landscapes revealed in Nils-Udo’s work are entrancing and mysterious.”

1. “Root Sculpture”, Parque Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico, 1995.
2. “Summer in the park,” Lime tree, bird berries and lime tree sheets, Aachen, Germany, 1999.
3. “The Nest”, Earth, stones, birch branches, grass, Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 1978.
4. “Water and Art”, Brookbed, Bindweed Blossoms, Ile de la Réunion, Indian Ocean, 1990.
   
5. ”Little Lake”, Ground water, connect hazel tree, bluebells, dead sheets, Vallery, France, 2000.

(Source: askios)

theastralcity:

Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.

To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.

The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.

Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.

The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.

I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at. Documentary here.