New York World’s Fair
[peace through understanding
a view from belgian village and adjacent french park
1964/65]
(Source: eye-you)
New York World’s Fair
[peace through understanding
a view from belgian village and adjacent french park
1964/65]
(Source: eye-you)
Cedric Price, “Fun Palace Concept,” London, England, 1961 (via unbuilt)
‘The Fun Palace was one of Cedric Price’s most influential projects and inspired Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s early 1970s project, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Initiated with Joan Littlewood, the theatre director and founder of the innovative Theatre Workshop in east London, the idea was to build a ‘laboratory of fun’ with facilities for dancing, music, drama and fireworks. Central to Price’s practice was the belief that through the correct use of new technology the public could have unprecedented control over their environment, resulting in a building which could be responsive to visitors’ needs and the many activities intended to take place there. As the marketing material suggested, there was a wide choice of activities: “Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what’s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.” Using an unenclosed steel structure, fully serviced by travelling gantry cranes the building comprised a ‘kit of parts’: pre-fabricated walls, platforms, floors, stairs, and ceiling modules that could be moved and assembled by the cranes. Virtually every part of the structure was variable. “Its form and structure, resembling a large shipyard in which enclosures such as theatres, cinemas, restaurants, workshops, rally areas, can be assembled, moved, re-arranged and scrapped continuously,” promised Price.’
(via documentarycity)
Flore Kunst | on Tumblr (b.1978, France) - Physiognomy / On ignore
Graduated from the Emile Cohl school in 1999, Flore Kunst worked in many fields such as textile design, illustration, graphic design, linocut and photography. Since 2010, She works mainly on collage for commission work or for personal exhibitions. She collects old magazines, postcards and other more contemporary sources to create and mix images. Flore never stops the idea what will be the collage before starting, it reveals itself progressively. She lets her eyes walk around all these fragments until, spontaneously and almost magically, the links are created between images who might seem to be opposite at first sight: “I like the idea of providing a new story to the papers forgotten.” Please follow artist’s Tumblr for more work. (Interview with artist by Artchipel Jan-2013)
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Wooden LEGO blocks by Mokurokku
Japanese firm Mokurokku hopes to get you feel closer to nature with their new wooden bricks.
Each box of mokulock bricks is priced at ¥2,835/USD31 and includes 50 pieces. they seem to be compatible with standard LEGO pieces, and we would want to see sets of mixed plastic and wood construction on different textures and colors. the mokurukku set has a disclaimer that the pieces can warp or fit together imprecisely due to the nature of the material in different temperatures and scale of humidity..
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Photo by Gjon Mili, 1941
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Bauwelt : Kenzo Tange
Black & White Illustration | 2567
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ORAWAN ARUNRAK
Drifting Map of Bangkok, 2012
Featured in Temporary Storage #01.1 broadsheet
Orawan Arunrak has been making drawings on her sketchbook whist drifting in the city of Bangkok. Found objects, places and people in everyday life are drawn as she’s thought they are already existing “art”. What interests us is that her drawings operate as a personal journal reflecting stories of the city and also a drifting map for others. Besides, Orawan’s contribution also delivers an aspect of “museum”; a museum without walls.
Temporary Storage #01
10 November – 9 December 2012
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre & Advertising Banners around BTS Stations (Siam – Victory Monument)
