Escher
The so-called Hill of Shame is a hill in the island of Lampedusa, half-way between Sicily and North Africa in the Mediterranean Sea, where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions in improvised tents during the immigration crisis in April 2011. Tents were built with metal sticks, sheets, clothes and mattresses in an open-air dump of plastic bags, dishes and bottles used as urinals. In 2011, about 53,000 North African and Sub-Saharan migrants arrived in the so-called “Door of Europe”, fleeing the unrest of the region and stranded on the island in appalling conditions. Migrants weren’t provided with the most basic humanitarian assistance such as shelter, medical care, blankets and access to sanitary facilities, while thousands slept outdoors.
Emilio Ambaz Drawings
Arquitectonica Downtown Miami Atlantis Condominium
Arquitectonica drawings of Miami Architecture
Ray and Charles Eames Solar Toy 1957 for Alcoa
This toy was one of the first sun powered appliances ever built, is has no use other than to power itself.
Mariele Neudecker - Unreacallable now
Castello di Sammezzano, Tuscany, Italy
This wonderful building was abandoned for many years and has only recently been restored and opened to up to the public. The castle was first built in 1605 by Ximene D’Argona with an equally wonderful garden full of exotic species of plants.
Two depictions of the building of the Bell Rock Lighthouse in the North Sea. The engineer in charge of the project was Robert Stevenson, RLS’s grandfather. It was finished in 1810 and still stands.
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Congratulations to all third years for a great final crit!
Vertical Living Room
Toby and Pete bouncy caste
Apparently the air transport of the future. These vehicles utilise both aerodynamics and lighter-than-air technology to generate lift, potentially allowing the vehicle to stay aloft for a few weeks.
The company, based in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, has designed a vehicle for long endurance surveillance and heavy lift transportation. The aircraft, most importantly, does not require a runway, which means that these air vehicles could land in the city. Potentially, this could cause existing and future cities, to be completely reconfigured around this new form of transport, as they did with the car.
Trichoptere by Hubert Duprat
This is the incredible result come from a collaboration between a Caddis fly larvae and an artist. The Caddis flies live near water and produce larvae that protect their developing bodies by manufacturing cases, spun from silk and found objects such as grains of sand and pebbles. However, the larvae are remarkably adaptable: if other suitable materials are introduced into their environment, they will often incorporate those as well.
In this piece Duprat has collected the larvae and relocated them into a tank filled with jewels, gold and precious stones. The larvae then begin to build their cases using the available objects, creating beautifully intricate peaces of jewelry.
“The production of the artifact within nature herself poses a problem—even more so when an aesthetic aspect is involved. Whether the insect is a craftsperson or whether, more generally, nature is a creator of forms, the consideration, within nature, of an aesthetic dimension is the stumbling block of science.”
Fentich and Young
