Wednesday 1 October 2008

arty farty sunny sunday

The last of the sunny days led us to Frank Gehry's Serpentine Pavilion Gallery and what a way to end the sunny days. This is the Gehry office's first UK project, consisting of 4 massive steel columns intersected with suspended timber planks and a network of glass panels.

Such a great space, the light reflects and bounces off each surface, while the interior is protected from the rain by the positioning of the suspended glass panels. With terraced seating on either side, it's awesome as aevent space, amphitheatre of just a spot to take it all in.

Two weeks left and it's gone so go get a look......





There is a really good time lapse video of the construction...see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANuimkRfGiw




And inside the Serpentine, Beijing-based artist Cao Fei fuses fantasy with the contemporary Chinese city in her construction of RMB City, an experimental art community in the internet-based virtual world of Second Life. The photos below are of the prototyped model of her city, with a few familiar structures such as the Beijing Stadium by Hertzog & de Meuron and the China Central TV HQ by OMA....


A fantastic animated video of this available here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9MhfATPZA0g