Tag: Large Scale Art

Artist Liam Gillick’s “A Variability Quantifier (The Fogo Island Red Weather Station)” For Fogo Island Arts

A wondrous architectural art installation and functional part of the World Weather Network

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For world travelers, architectural tourists or anyone who daydreams of remote locales, Newfoundland’s Fogo Island is perhaps best known as the home of the utterly astonishing and unexpected Fogo Island Inn. Designed by Todd Saunders and imagined by Canadian entrepreneur and esteemed innkeeper Zita Cobb, the inn may be one of the most magnetizing examples of modern design informed by local architectural language. Saunders looked to …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

A vaccine against fentanyl, household appliances in the style of Gaudí, the future of clean energy and more

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Fusion Energy Breakthrough For the first time ever, scientists have been able to produce a nuclear fusion reaction that generates a net energy gain. This is, according to the Washington Post, “a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion-dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power.” This scientific breakthrough—which could ultimately support impoverished areas with power, and contribute …

Digital Artist Neon Saltwater Transforms a Las Vegas Gas Station into a Glowing Beacon

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Modifying an abandoned gas station from the 1930s on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, “Mystery Cruise 1990” (2022) is a glowing, site-specific installation by digital artist Neon Saltwater (aka Abigail Dougherty). The neon beacon is part of the city’s annual Life Is Beautiful Festival, curated by creative agency JustKids. “I see ‘Mystery Cruise 1990’ as a nostalgic reinterpretation by the artist of the vintage neon …

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