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(November) The New Zealand Yellow Pages is conducting a marketing promotion to show that no matter what your project is, the Yellow Pages can help you complete it. To prove it, they’re building a restaurant 10 metres up a redwood tree, and the idea is to source all products and services through Yellow Pages listings.
As you can see the treehouse is now complete. You can read the original post about the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.
The Treehouse was designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects.
Photographs by Lucy Gauntlett.
Visit the Pacific Environments Architects website - here.
Visit the website for the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.
*If you have trouble viewing the video on Vox I've cross-posted to my Posterous.
The DVD offers the viewer a range of colors and a selection of audio to fit different moods. We spent over a year putting the product together and launched last September at New York Fashion Week.
Features:
-easy to use
-continuous play
-automatic repeat
-constant pixel movement
-synchronizes with all music
-20-page booklet
-28 color & audio mixes
-36 unique Pantone shades
-180 minutes of programming
via microcinema
The Eden Project is a well-known education center that encourages people to learn how to
look after nature in a time of radical change. They offer educational programs,
exhibits, events and workshops and especially focus on educating children and
encouraging them to be part of nature.
Naturally, the Field of Light is best viewed at night after the sun has set, when the lights begin to glow and the starry sky appears to be reflected on the ground. The beautiful installation will be on display through the Winter and into Spring 2009. As Munro remarks, Field of Light, like a giant surreal camp-site banana, is an alien installation in the midst of nature. And like dry desert seeds lying in wait for the rain, the sculptures fiber optic stems lie dormant until darkness falls, and then under a blazing blanket of stars they flower with gentle rhythms of light. Field of Light is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites.
via Inhabitat
Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The time-based nature of the poem–and the visitor’s time-based encounters with it–allow viewers to have different experiences either seeing a stanza of the poem or getting the whole poem. All of these possible experiences are equally valuable and have meanings unique to the individual.
This technique has the potential for producing particular effects and meanings within an architectural environment. Without the use of a source of power other than the sun, this project uses light and shadow to push the boundaries of communication and experiential delight.
For his posthumous induction into The One Club's Hall of Fame for 2007,
Imaginary Forces created a short film combining original animation
with a videotaped interview of Rand himself. (via imaginary forces | tacouin)
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