The Greatest CGI Ever: Alex Roman & Architecture as Art
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
The following piece is 12-minutes long and is the greatest FULL computer generated imagery (CGI) I have ever seen… The piece is purely architecture based and makes Avatar look 5 years old. It’s 100% animated and was built in 3ds Max, V-Ray, After Effects and Premiere. This is Alex Roman’s “The Third and the Seventh.”
Tags: 3, 7, alex roman, architecture, art, CGI, furniture, gehry, graphics, third and seventh
Atmospheric Architecture
Posted by Coupon | Filed under Art & Design
So recently, I came across this nifty little exhibit called Cardboard Cloud by designers Fantastic Norway from, um, Norway. Based on the “thrill” of unpacking (having moved 10 times in three years, I would strongly disagree with this sentiment), the installation is comprised of 3000 hanging cardboard boxes that creates a pixelated cloud above the exhibition space:
Seeing this got me thinking of other projects/buildings I’ve seen that use an atmospheric motif as a conceptual basis for design. After the click through are a few that stand out.
Tags: architecture, atmosphere, cloud, rain, sky, storm
Tortoise & Chicago Architecture
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
The new Tortoise video “Prepare Your Coffin” highlights a bunch of still and moving images of Chicago architecture. The most noticeable from my knowledge of this city include O’Hare International Airport (the terminal, the underground area, the parking lot with circular driveway), The Hancock building, and the double semicircle sculpture in Grant Park. I wonder if they’re saying we’re all gonna die in this concrete jungle. Yikes.
Tags: architecture, chicago, Grant Park, Hancock Building, O'Hare, ORD, prepare your coffin, tortoise
Resampled Space
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Off the beaten path
Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he “combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures,” Mark Magazine explains.
The resulting projects look like old factory sites in the American rust belt – Mark describes them as “informal and often dilapidated structures with unspecified functions”
Tags: architecture, BLDG, Filip Dujardin, recycled imagery, resampled space
Scary but Dope Viewing Platforms
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Some of the more architecturally astounding viewing platforms around the world.
Top of the Tyrol
Grand Canyon Skywalk
Sydney Tower Skywalk
Tags: architecture, glass, skyscraper, skywalk, viewing platform
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