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fromColossal
5 months ago
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This October, a Global Public Art Project Turns 35 Cities into Playgrounds

Nōvo Collective's uncommissioned mobilizes 54 artists to transform urban spaces worldwide with playful, site-specific public artworks across 35 cities.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 months ago
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SKULL studio turns car park into play lot with installation 'the floor is lava soft!' in estonia

A car park was transformed with straw bales to soften urban asphalt, creating a temporary, tactile playground that invites play and communal gathering.
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fromwww.amny.com
23 hours ago

Chasing Rainbows: The radical intimacy of monumental public art | amNewYork

Charlotte Colbert's public art installation in Manhattan uses monumental scale and reflective surfaces to introduce interiority and psychological depth into urban space, challenging the city's doctrine of acceleration and assertion.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

'horizons' at perrotin LA to show JR's california works from prison yards to border wall

JR's 'Horizons' exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles showcases large-scale photographic artworks created across California, transforming public spaces by placing enlarged portraits of individuals and communities onto architectural and landscape surfaces.
fromColossal
1 month ago

A Monumental Bisected Orb by SpY Glows Amid Scaffolding in Xi'an

Known for large-scale installations incorporating a range of objects like metallic emergency blankets and orange traffic cones, SpY prompts us to not only see our surroundings differently but also to immerse ourselves in his otherworldly interpretations of space and light. A recent work titled "Divided" towered over a public thoroughfare amid skyscrapers in Xi'an, China. One part of a trilogy called Earth, comprising similar interpretations of glowing orbs within scaffolding, "Divided" splits the sphere in half. Two identical sides sit within their own frameworks,
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
5 months ago

intertwined tubular forms shape inflatable rainbow labyrinth by cyril fancelin in grand rapids

Pyramid Curbs is a large-scale inflatable, rainbow-gradient, walkable pyramid-like installation in Grand Rapids transforming urban space into a playful, immersive labyrinth.
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