Nope, today is not Valentine's day... and yes, those are really big roses. Who says that we should celebrate the month of L-O-V-E only in February when there is a place in the world that grows more than 60,000 roses of 2,000 varieties? You may want to visit the Rose Garden of Princess Hildegard of Bavaria located in Zweibrücken, Germany which is also known as the City of Roses. German artist …
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Give me an E! Do you remember that famous American game show The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime? This enormous keyboard installation reminds me very well of that show that my family used to watch back when me and my siblings were still young. I wonder if Russian artist Anatoly Vyatkin was able to watch that program at least once in his lifetime. Vyatkin happens to pay tribute to the QWERTY keyboard when he thought…
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Spanish architect Cristina Parreño created the Paper Chandeliers project for this year's International Art Fair ARCO Madrid.
In this installation, thousands of paper tubes were…
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Artist Megan Ceckler's colorful installations using flagging tape seem digital at first glance. A flagging tape is a mass-produced colorful plastic ribbon utilized on construction sites.
Each installation takes days or weeks of exhaustive site visits and endless…
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Plastic bottles totaling around 2,100 pieces became an interactive public art project named Argallios as initiated by Athenian studio …
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Brazilian artist Eduardo Coimbra provided a heavenly experience to the visitors of his art installation in Brazil.
Five light boxes with cloud images measuring 17 square feet were installed on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Fascinated passers-by were able to…
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Don't you just adore this 14' x 6' mosaic wall made of 12,000 pencil crayons? blackLAB Architects created the colourSPACE using 25 different colors to come up with a color gradient from black to white. I wonder how many drawings I can make out of these thousands of crayons.…
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Check out this amazing installation entitled A Million Times created by Stockholm-based Humans since 1982 to be featured this month at Design Days Dubai. What's really interesting with this artwork is that 300 interconnected clocks work independently resulting to a remarkable choreography of…
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As part of the 2006 FIFA World Cup football event in Germany, a set of six huge steel book sculptures were displayed in central Berlin. Designed by Scholz & Friends, the 12.2 meter high exhibition was called Modern Book Printing.
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Adding color to Qubic Tax's monochromatic office is this fun installation of 1,200 pieces of LEGO minifigs. Design firm Acrylicize conceptualized and executed the project. The main theme was 'tax' so that each LEGO minifig…
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The Small Knocking Down the Big is an installation project by Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie. The artist put together big rectangular pieces of wood for the trunk and small sized ones for branches constituting the shape of a knocked down giant…
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From white paper, artist Tomás Saraceno created light geometrical structures similar to those white feathery clouds in the sky. Some of the polyhedronic structures were suspended separately using nylon wires so that it appears to float.
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As a way to create awareness for the on-going river abuse, 100,000 pieces of 'wishing star' solar-powered LED lights were released on to Sumida River in Tokyo. The lights were particularly designed by Panasonic so that it glows when touched by water. After the beautiful river display, the tiny lights were gathered to be used again in the…
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Happy Hearts Day everyone! Well, I guess, everyday should be Valentine's Day. And what better way to celebrate this extra special event is to take a trip down memory and be a bit nostalgic. Last year, the collaboration among BIG + Times Square Alliance + Flatcut + …
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For this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair, Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi collaborated in creating an impressive installation. 11,000 pieces of paper with printed patterns on one side were layered and arranged in a…
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This installation dubbed as Chairs for Abu Dhabi was created by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata using various kinds of stools, sofas, benches and armchairs. The structure that reaches the gallery's 20-foot-tall ceiling is a tribute to humanity's diversity, unity and interconnectedness. It was featured in …
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Greek studio Beforelight and Imagine The City collaborated for a public installation project aimed to illuminate a deserted street in Athens called Pittaki. In preparation for the installation, they’ve gathered old lamps and light fixtures donated…
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Remember our previous post about Peg Carpets by We Make Carpets using colorful clothes pins? Well, here's another unique work by Heidi Voet and this time it is made of digital watches. The project is called Is six…
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Check out these natural art installations created by Finnish sculptor and environment artist Jaakko Pernu. I think what he's trying to convey is that once in a while we should stick with minimalism and move away from complexities. ♥
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