James Corner hopes to melt hearts with vast ICEBERGS installation
POSTED 06 Jul 2016 . BY Kim Megson
The installation at the National Building Museum makes visitors feel as though they are walking through an underwater world of ice fields
Credit: Timothy Schenck
As a physical experience, the installation creates an ambient field of texture, movement and interaction – James Corner
James Corner’s huge ice-themed installation for the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. has opened to the public.
The immersive work, called ICEBERGS, occupies an area of 12,540sq ft (1,100sq m) in the museum’s Great Hall. It allows visitors to feel as though they are walking through an underwater world of ice fields.
A host of newly-released images reveal the varied elements introduced by Corner and his studio Field Operations.
Caves and grottoes – created by recycled construction materials – line the ocean floor and icebergs float on a ‘water line’ which is suspended 20ft high bisecting the vertical space. The tallest iceberg rises 56ft (17m) to the museum's third-storey balcony and can be climbed, while others feature slides. Cushions evocative of ice blocks provide space for relaxation below the icebergs.
“This world is both beautiful and ominous given our current epoch of climate change, ice-melt and rising seas,” said Corner in a statement when the project was first announced. “As a physical experience, the installation creates an ambient field of texture, movement and interaction, as in an unfolding landscape of multiples, distinct from a static, single object.
“As geometry, it speaks to the mathematics of triangles and parallelograms in folded combinations. As construction, it describes a method of assembly made from multiple prefabricated units.”
ICEBERGS will be on display until 5 September 206 as part of the museum’s Summer Block Series. A series of events will be held over that time, including DJ sets, educational workshops, discussions hosted by the architects and a creative workshop that allows guests to work out how Rose could have saved Jack at the end of the film Titanic.
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James Corner hopes to melt hearts with vast ICEBERGS installation
POSTED 06 Jul 2016 . BY Kim Megson
The installation at the National Building Museum makes visitors feel as though they are walking through an underwater world of ice fields
Credit: Timothy Schenck
As a physical experience, the installation creates an ambient field of texture, movement and interaction – James Corner
James Corner’s huge ice-themed installation for the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. has opened to the public.
The immersive work, called ICEBERGS, occupies an area of 12,540sq ft (1,100sq m) in the museum’s Great Hall. It allows visitors to feel as though they are walking through an underwater world of ice fields.
A host of newly-released images reveal the varied elements introduced by Corner and his studio Field Operations.
Caves and grottoes – created by recycled construction materials – line the ocean floor and icebergs float on a ‘water line’ which is suspended 20ft high bisecting the vertical space. The tallest iceberg rises 56ft (17m) to the museum's third-storey balcony and can be climbed, while others feature slides. Cushions evocative of ice blocks provide space for relaxation below the icebergs.
“This world is both beautiful and ominous given our current epoch of climate change, ice-melt and rising seas,” said Corner in a statement when the project was first announced. “As a physical experience, the installation creates an ambient field of texture, movement and interaction, as in an unfolding landscape of multiples, distinct from a static, single object.
“As geometry, it speaks to the mathematics of triangles and parallelograms in folded combinations. As construction, it describes a method of assembly made from multiple prefabricated units.”
ICEBERGS will be on display until 5 September 206 as part of the museum’s Summer Block Series. A series of events will be held over that time, including DJ sets, educational workshops, discussions hosted by the architects and a creative workshop that allows guests to work out how Rose could have saved Jack at the end of the film Titanic.
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Capital has made a binding, fully financed
€1 billion
offer to acquire Pierre and Vacances SA, the European holiday resort operator behind the
continental European Center Parcs business.
Expo 2030 Riyadh is being planned as a permanent visitor destination, with organisers
confirming the six-million-square-metre site will become a Global Village after the event closes.
The owner of one of Australia's best-known waterparks has acquired a major competitor,
creating a new attractions business spanning two of the country's largest visitor destinations.
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