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Standing in sharp contrast to the more traditional historic architecture of Graz, Austria, the Kunsthaus Graz art museum was designed to break out of the usual white box museum design and it ended up looking like a giant robot/demon heart from the future.
The modern museum was built in 2003 during the time when Graz served as the European Capital of Culture, a roving honor that is awarded to a different European city each year. Rather than install another bland box among the lovely, aging buildings of the city, the designers went in the completely opposite direction, giving the building a more rounded, organic look. It also manages to look completely otherworldly. The bulbous shape and the skylight shafts that protrude from the top of the structure make it look like a metallic monster heart.
The gleaming surface of the museum is also embedded with nearly 1,000 fluorescent rings that can be programmed to create patterns, making the building even more spectacular and strange at night. Much of the structure's power is absorbed by solar panels on the gleaming roof of the building, so it is almost as though it is gaining energy like an actual living being.
While the museum definitely stands out among the rest of Graz's uniformly historic buildings, it is now a beloved landmark of the city, and well worth a visit whether you are a fan of art or just looking to see what a giant's silver heart would look like.
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This week marks $100M pledged to Publishing projects on Kickstarter, a landmark achievement for our busy community of bookmakers, zine…
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the campaign features a series of faceless figures, shaded in dark depressive colors which are accompanied by a short resume.
The post pedro coelho's alcoholics anonymous resume details faceless portraits appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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the short film honers seventy-five year old ruben pardo - the oldest manual elevator operator in LA.
The post dress code celebrates los angeles' oldest lift operator in ruben's elevator appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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