Automobile Museum by 3GATTI Architecture Studio 3Gatti Architecture Studio of Rome and Shanghai have won a competition to design an automobile museum in Nanjing, China. An external concentric ramp allows visitors to drive around the exterior of the museum in their own car, past the exhibits to a roof-top car park. Visitors then descend through the museum on foot via an internal ramp. Here are more details from 3Gatti: Automobile museum in Nanjing. It is difficult to identify one single and continuing exploratory theme in the work of Francesco Gatti. From the ethereal virtual ceiling of the redevelopment project “In Factory” – his first Chinese work – to the curved forms of the Ze Bar, from the sculptural faceting of the Red Object to the spotted epidermis of his transgenic houses, the architect with Roman origins has never let himself be bound by a specific or recognisable aesthetic style. The same applies in the winning project for the new car museum at Nanchino where Gatti has envisaged an origami on urban scale. Click for larger image.
~Wunderkammer~ ~ Sunday, February 21 ~ 3,215 notes reblogged via les-sanglots-longs: “The Bone Collector” by Rebecca Bathory, taken at an abandoned house in the UK 976 notes ~ Wednesday, December 16 ~ ~ Wednesday, October 28 ~ 3,588 notes ~ Sunday, October 4 ~ ~ Wednesday, June 24 ~ ~ Thursday, December 18 ~ 2,165 notes ~ Monday, December 1 ~ ~ Friday, September 5 ~ memewhore: unexplained-events: Devil’s FingersThe picture above is of a mushroom thats thought to be a specimen of Clathrus archeri right before its fingers open up. That is so freakin’ cool. (Source: unexplained-events) Lehmann Maupin VOODOOVOODOO Art Brut Synaptic Stimuli Speed Caffeine Cocaine Dopamine Ecstasy Heroin Ketamine Crystal Meth Opium External Stimuli – Sarah Schoenfeld ‘All you can feel’, via Huff Post Helene Schjerfbeck Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.(Roberta Smith, New York Times, November 27th 1992) Biography[edit] Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck was born on 10 July 1862 in Helsinki, Finland (then an autonomous Grand-Duchy within the Russian Empire), to Svante Schjerfbeck (an office manager) and Olga Johanna (née Printz). When Schjerfbeck’s father died of tuberculosis on February 2, 1876, Schjerfbeck’s mother took in boarders so that they could get by. In 1879, at the age of 17, Schjerfbeck won third prize in a competition organised by the Finnish Art Society, and in 1880 her work was displayed in an annual Finnish Art Society exhibition. In the 1890s Schjerfbeck started teaching regularly in Finland at the Art Society drawing school, but in 1901 she became too ill to teach and in 1902 she resigned her post.
Miss Christine Wu. Artist. Los Angeles.