Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 October 2008

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Pompidou Centre



A contemporary designed building holding some of the most famous and recent artworks siutated in the elegant Parisian centre. One of my favorite structures and the best building in Paris, for sure.

The daring use of bold colours and radical transformation from traditional, using monumential buildings to signify importance and status has been torn up. Escalators and that protrude in segments and made a feature of is unique to my knowledge and an inspiration to design differently and make a statement.

Every angle provides a new composition, a building that you could never be bored by.
The architecture is just as good as the exhibitons inside.

Saturday, 27 September 2008

Jewish holocaust museum



The holocaust museum in Berlin resides underground and the atmosphere is rather strange compared to a exhibiting gallery. The passages through the museums lead you on a journey of emphemera photographs and personal accounts on the events that unfolded over war.

The contrast between the modern minimalistic building and historical events is quite cold and eerie. Without natural sunlight a uncomfortable silence and loneliness ressonates throughout the entire visit. The effect of the location takes you away from the touristy busy streets of sunny Berlin and works to engross the audience into a serious and tragic piece of history.

Thursday, 10 July 2008

BMW Kinetic Sculpture - showcasing art or innovative design

BMW is a brand that communicates the "ultimate driving machine." The brand strategy aimed at the consumer image is known for speed, handling and driving - sporty yet elegant and cool...

This particular installation promotes a new innovative use of technology. Successfully addressing the brand ident; control of motion (speed) and form. This piece show cases physical art as a kinetic sculpture, yet at the same time advertises BMW's engineering and techological superiority over it's competitors.




An installation featured in BMWs museum in Munich displays an array of steel balls attached to invisible string and is controlled via movements to create motion images of it's different products.