LONDON | Olympic Hubble Bubble | 115m / 377ft
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7083022.ece
The sculptor Anish Kapoor is to erect the largest and most ambitious public artwork in the country in east London: a startling red tower that looks rather like a mangled roller coaster. It is too early to tell what the world will call this £19.1 million, 115m tall feat of technological and industrial wizadry but if Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has anything to do with it it will be the “Hubble-Bubble” after the tobacco smoking contraptions popular in the Middle East and North Africa. Kapoor beat off competition from the artist Antony Gormley and the architects Caruso St John to win a contest run by the Mayor to find yet another “iconic symol” for the city and the 2012 Olympic park. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multime...60_703334a.jpg |
mehh... its whatever. maybe it'll grow on me, london has a history of wacky architecture which overtime looks good.
i wouldnt have chosen this personally, but whatev. |
Interesting, I would assume they will need to get going on this pretty soon to have it ready in time for the games?
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Eeeesh. :rolleyes: It's art so have at it. But, I'm not terribly fond of it.
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It's a 450-ft. hookah.
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i just, dont get it. what is the artist trying to say? unity? peace? the 2012 games are going to be a mangled wreck?
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Not as cool as the bean:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...om_east%27.jpg wikipedia Its strange that this contraption doesn't seem to reflect (no pun intended) the simplicity of any of his previous artwork. Most of his art explores the reflection of light and this seems to explore how many weird ways we can weld steel together in. |
eww.. fugly......
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Never realized how much the Bean reminds me of the spaceship from Flight of Navigator until now.
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/u...ship_in_sf.gif * |
My first reaction was that it looks like something out of War of the Worlds.
Very menacing, without having any real drama. I can hardly believe it was done by the same person that did the Bean. It would be interesting to see the other designs. I can't believe that none of them was better. It reminds me of the old joke, "What's big, red and eats rocks? A big red rock eater". Only in this case, it's "What's big, red, and acts as an observation tower? A big, red observation tower". |
Saw it in the news. I think it has the potential to be a lasting icon. I think it's supposed to be 377 ft.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?ITO=1490 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...x476_popup.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...x503_popup.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...25_634x597.jpg |
Barf!
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Reminds me of this...
http://felixsalmon.com/pics/thinkbig.jpghttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/multime...60_703334a.jpg felixsalmon.com |
Blargh! First the awful Olympic stadium design and now this? London may go down for having birthed some of the most butt-ugly architecture of the millennium at this rate! Almost a complete 180 from Beijing!
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Can a mod edit the thread title, official height is 377 ft. Thanks.
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Yuck!!!!!!!
I really dig the stadium, but this thing's just horrible. |
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^I was thinking the same...
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Well, I'm in the minority on this one, I kind of like it. They should build something like this at Coney Island...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ondon-olympics Is the Orbit anything more than a folly on an Olympic scale? It's the most extravagant example of the idea that a huge, strange object can affect tens of thousands. This could be the point at which the idea stops working Rowan Moore The Observer, Sunday 4 April 2010 Quote:
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