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New Art Museum / SANAA
Architect: SANAA
Location: 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Client: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City; Zubatkin Owner Representation
Project Leadership: Saul Dennison, Chairman, Board of Trustees, New Museum; Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum; Lisa Roumell, Deputy Director, New Museum
Architect of record: Gensler Architects
Project Management: Plaza Construction Corporation, New York City
Structural engineers: Guy Nordenson Associates, Simpson Gumperts & Heger Inc., New York City
Lights and illumination: Arup
Constructed area: 58,700 sq ft
Year of enchargement: 2002
Year of completion: 2007
Photographs: Iwan Baan, Dean Kaufman, Benoit Pailley
http://www.sanaa.co.jp/Recently Pritzker laureate SANAA offers to architects, critics and customers very sharp architectures, outstanding and internationally recognized. Most of the times, the reason of this is the simplicity and clearness of the concept, and its clean translation into construction. The New Contemporary Art Museum in New York is a precious building with clear concept and strong impact.
The location context, Lower Manhattan, with its squared blocks and buildings, can be considered as starting point for the Museum image: it replies the boxes surrounding, and stacks them one on top of the other in various sizes and heights, as the plot was a playground for a composition of cubes. By small but significant shifting of the cubes, the building gets dynamicity and an attracting shape, being different but similar to the near constructions. -
Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works out of some of the most unlikely things. His recent North American museum tours feature large-scale sculptures using only toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.A full-time freelance artist, Sawaya accepts commissions from individuals, corporations, and … well just about anyone with a good idea! He’s also available to design and build custom creations at events, photo shoots and conventions.So let Sawaya know what you have in mind, there are literally no limits to what he can create out of LEGO.
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Paper Art, Back to Basics
France-based design studio Zim and Zou have created this awesome collection entitled Back to Basics that features retro electronics made out of paper. The 80′s gadgets were intricately constructed using bright and colorful paper. The whole project took around a year and allows you to reminisce over paper replicas of a Polaroid camera, an old Leica, a walkman with cassette, an old phone, Gameboy, and a Nintendo game controller.Check out the video at the end to watch some behind-the-scene shots of Zim and Zou creating their paper electronics.
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3D Airbrush Drawings by Ramon Bruin
Ramon Bruin creates these incredibly realistic 3D optical illusions. The airbrushing technique makes it possible to display different densities of color by creating various gradients.Ramon is a mostly self-taught freelance artist with a passion for airbrushing, from photorealism to 3D optical illusion drawings. Be sure to check out his website for more information.
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