With countless supertall structures spontaneously springing up, our world has gained some seriously sky-high square footage. Looking down from these soaring skyscrapers surely causes peoples’ hearts to skip a few beats. And while we admire those bold photographers scaling tall towers to capture the dizzying views from the top, we’re thankful we’re not the ones dangling our …Continue Reading
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Under The Sea: A Surreal Photography Exhibit Set Within A Fossilized Shipwreck!
According to the United Nations, there are approximately 3 million sunken ships around the globe resting on our oceans’ floors. Shipwrecks vary in cause and category, ranging from captivating treasure troves straight out of story books, to botched naval missions, to the catastrophe of the Titanic. Overtime, these doomed vessels transform into fossilized fragments of …Continue Reading
Under The Sea: A Surreal Photography Exhibit Set Within A Fossilized Shipwreck!
According to the United Nations, there are approximately 3 million sunken ships around the globe resting on our oceans’ floors. Shipwrecks vary in cause and category, ranging from captivating treasure troves straight out of story books, to botched naval missions, to the catastrophe of the Titanic. Overtime, these doomed vessels transform into fossilized fragments of …Continue Reading
Carsten Güth’s Terrifyingly Beautiful Photos Of Bunker Homes
In her “Private Bunker Series,” photographer Carsten Güth depicts suburban abodes that look completely shut off from the outside world. Though not specifically built to seal interior spaces from impending doom (see: our best places in which to ride out the apocalypse), the houses in Güt’s photos appear to have no windows or doors, creating a haunting, surreal effect.
It’s difficult to put a finger on what emotions these photographs elicit, but something about their isolation and seclusion feels nightmare-ish and claustrophobic, but still eerily beautiful. Why these homes were designed to be so inaccessible is unclear, but Güth channeled this confusion into a creepy mystification. Click through to see more.
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The Best Bathroom You’ve Ever Seen, Just Watch Out For The Bugs!
It’s the outhouse refined. The “Superlative Space” room (original Japanese name: gokujo no heya) is an immersive installation that brings the garden into the bathroom, or vice-versa. Designed by architect Naruse-Inokuma Architects and botanical artist Makoto Azuma for the HOUSE VISION 2013 in Tokyo, the room is quite the head trip, a jarring collage of organic plant life, cold white walls, and pristine bathroom fixtures. The latter were furnished by Otto, who, along with window maker YPP AP, sponsored the project. The room is part of a 1:1 mock-up house, one of the nine that make up the exhibition. Click for more.
All photos: Makoto Azum
The expo, which pairs design brands like Muji and industry leaders like Honda with Japan’s best and brightest architects such as Shigeru Ban and Toyo Ito, envisions what the home of the future and the sustainable technologies embedded therein might look like. Naruse-Inokuma’s installation is an easy standout, both visually stunning and perplexing. You don’t know where the space begins or ends, as the pockets of green shrubbery become swallowed up by a homogeneous white substance, i.e. the room’s perimeter walls and floors.
HOUSE VISION runs through March 24, 2013.
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Check Out This Installation Made Of 11,000 Sheets Of Paper For Stockholm Design Week!
Yesterday marked the opening of this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair, and what better way to kick off the event than with the breathtaking pavilion created by Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Dutch illustrator Kustaa Saksi Created out of 1,120 stacks of paper — a total of 11,000 individual sheets connected at 44,000 points — “Hello! Anatomy of Communication” spans an area of 200 square meters. The paper acts as a canvas for the illustrative artist, reflected by the mirrored tabletops that rest below the suspended structure. As if the designers thought there wasn’t enough paper used in the construction, the reflective tabletops are also balanced upon stacks of paper. “Hello! Anatomy of Communication” will be on view during the fair, which runs until February 9 as a part of Stockholm Design Week. Click through to see more of the surreal paper installation!
Hello! Anatomy of Communication via sthlmfurniturefair
Photos: courtesy Tord-Rikard Söderström
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Photographer Turns Rooms Into Giant Camera Obscuras
As what is probably the first imaging device, the camera obscura seems a curious tool for a contemporary photographer to use. Yet it proves integral to photographer Abelardo Morell‘s entire body of work. Morell has spent most of his career working with the technique—he cuts a tiny pinhole of light in a darkened room and captures the
Anyone Feeling Woozy? A Surrealist Creation By Luxembourg Artists Feipel and Bechameil
Photography: Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil
As if taken directly from a scene in a David Lynch film, the images of the Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil artwork presented at last year’s Venice Biennale would warm any surrealist fan’s already melting heart. Entitled Le Cercle Fermé (Closed Circle) and curated by René Kockelkorn, the installation—which hasn’t received much exposure—explores the central theme of space while playing with the physiological limitations of perception. Read more.
The piece, which maintains a severe and all-encompassing white palette, features everything from flowing walls, hidden doorways, and even liquefied chairs. The philosophy of the work delves into the historically dated concept of space as it pertains to the meaning of limitations. Kockelkorn explains: “The meaning of the word ‘space’ is profoundly destabilised. In this, our two artists are very topical because the management of space is in crisis. This space we think of as living space is simultaneously a space of action, orientation, and communication.”
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