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Public Art – Green, Functional and Beautiful
On October 8th Rebecca Ansert, Founder of Green Public Art Consultancy, was invited to speak at the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places (AIPP) Symposium , OFF THE GRID: Recharging Public Art + Design. AIPP staff, Carrie Brown and … Continue reading
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Public Art + Green Technology: Perspective from an Urban Sustainability Graduate Student
Green Public Art’s Intern, Jessica Kimmel is our guest blogger for this post. Below are her thoughts on art and green technology. As an intern for Green Public Art, I have been in the process of researching new materials for … Continue reading
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“A Breath of Life”: Artificial Study of Plant Life
The idea is simple…plants require carbon dioxide to grow. Scotland-based artist and designer Fraser Ross has designed A Breath of Life to engage viewers by asking them to activate his artwork by breathing on it. This is, as Fraser notes, … Continue reading
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Wind Knitting Factory
Knit bombs or Yarn Bombing seems to be catching a lot of traction in the street art scene – but this project takes knitting to the next level! The Wind Knitting Factory designed by artist Merel Karhof has tapped into … Continue reading
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OR2 Demonstrates an Elegant Use of Photovoltaics in Public Art
OR2 is a combination shading device and solar-powered chandelier designed by London-based Orproject. The structure’s purpose is twofold: it acts as a source of shade during the day, and it turns into a dazzling chandelier at night, dispersing light collected … Continue reading
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Future Flower: Illuminated by Wind Turbines
London architects Tonkin Liu have recently installed a beautiful metal flower beside the River Mersey in England. Dubbed Future Flower, the 14 metre-high flower having giant petals of perforated galvanized steel is part of a regeneration project for the waterfront … Continue reading
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Art Transforms London Waste Land into an Environmental Park
The award winning monumental project, Northala Fields, is Europe’s largest example of land art created by artist Peter Fink and architect Igor Marko.The site was once a barren, windswept, inaccessible tract of land located next to a major highway. Now … Continue reading
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Artwork trancends barrier between private and public spaces
Gitta Gschwendtner‘s ‘Animal Wall’ is part of a 50 meter long wall, running along the south-western edge of ‘Strata’, a new residential development in Century Wharf, Cardiff Bay, UK. The environmental impact of Cardiff Bay’s extensive development is an … Continue reading
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Architectural Association temporary installation: Driftwood
Designed by students at the Architectural Association school, “Driftwood” is built from a plywood spruce structure provided by a Finnish timber merchant, with the cladding consisting of 28 layers of 4mm thick plywood. The flowing, heavily computer-aided design, which the … Continue reading
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