Venetian images from LA based photographer Mona Kuhn. Born in Brazil with German parents, Mona’s work is mainly figurative but seems to take studies of the surrounding landscape during shoots. I really like these semi submerged photographs of the Venetian waterways. Mona Kuhn is represented by the Flowers Gallery in London and New York, and you can find more work on her site below.
Serene images captured on road trips around America from Portland Maine based Photographer Mark Yaggie.
Beautiful Steps is an ongoing Sculpture / Architecture project from Swiss creative duo Lang Baumann aka Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann.
Beautiful lighting installation by Venezuelan Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Cruz-Diez work is about the viewers interaction without any need for cultural context. He works with silk-screen prints, video, architectural models, and traditional paintings. Olafur Eliasson has done similar chromatic works if you’re interested in seeing more of this kind of stuff.
Copenhagen and New York based Architects BIG’s (Bjarke Ingels Group) design for a mixed use Observation Tower in Phoenix, Arizona. Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum rotunda, the tower marks a pin in the city to provide a new identity to the sky line. The oversize lollipop like structure towers 130 meters above the city consisting of a reinforced concrete and an open-air spiral sphere.
Amazing photo-real paintings from Irish Artist Francis Matthews. Francis works from photographs he takes around Dublin city, always looking for an interesting lighting effects and dynamic compositions. His technique is time consuming but the results are mind-blowing. He is currently working on an exhibition which will be held early in 2013. Francis’s work is available through Cherry Lane Fine Arts. You can see an interview with Francis Matthews put together by Chutney Films below.
A Tree house that’s for the Birds by Japanese design studio Nendo. The tree house is located in a forest in Komoro City in Japan’s mountainous Nagano Prefecture and contains 78 separate spaces for birds to nest while providing accommodation for the ornithological enthusiast to have an auld snoop. There’s a mammoth amount of great furniture and product design from Nendo on their site but do check out the exhibition they did with Philips de Pury in the Saatchi Gallery, London in 2011 entitled ‘Think Black Lines’.
The City of Detroit has an area of over 225 square kilometers, which is about the size of San Fran, Boston and Manhattan Island combined but with a population of 700,000. With the reduction in population by over half in the last 60 years and the masses of area; large amounts of the city have become completely abandoned; leaving waste lands of burned out houses where packs of wild dogs roam feeding from rubbish dumped by opportunistic passers by. Over the last 10 years Denver based Photographer Kevin Bauman has documented these houses in a series entitled ’100 abandoned houses’.
Loving this public park pavilion in Texas by Architects Cooper Joseph Studio. In-situ concrete and pristine bright yellow paneling look deadly together. It’s in Texas so it’s probably sunny pretty much all the time so when the light hits the panels from above it gives off a yellow glow making it a focal point for the park. Along with its physical size; the clever stepped seating encourages the community to use it as a meeting place.
Deadly little video by Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond aka NOTsoNOISY and Trivial Mass Production. Together with a group of 110 people at the University of Health Sciences in Switzerland they turned the facade of their building into an analog 10 x 11 display turning the sliding shutters and window opes into pixels. The results are worth a watch.
