Have some cute dinosaurs to ease the pain
Remember, the dinosaurs love you no matter what, even if your country doesn’t.
Have some cute dinosaurs to ease the pain
Remember, the dinosaurs love you no matter what, even if your country doesn’t.
Stunning Installation Mimics Raindrops Frozen in Time
A studio called Luzinterruptus was invited by the Waterman Arts Centre to recreate their Interactive Light project in London as part of the city’s festival called Totally Thames.
The Hive is an installation by Nottingham artist Wolfgang Buttress, who originally conceived the bio-inspired sculpture for the Milan Expo in 2015. The Expo’s theme was “Feeding the Planet,” and Buttress was inspired by the role that bees play in pollination. The sculpture ended up winning top prize and has now been moved to Kew Gardens for two years.
Standing nearly 56 feet tall and 46 feet deep, the Hive consists of 169,300 aluminum pieces that are tightly interlocked in a hexagonal pattern, forming an oblong shape evocative of a beehive. From a distance, the sculpture looks like a swarm. But as you home in on the architecture, says Buttress, “you then get a sense of the hexagons of this abstracted honeycomb pattern, this latticework.”
As a visitor enters the hollow structure, she might notice 1,000 LED lights strung around the scaffolding, flickering and alternating hues. The changing luminescence is triggered by the energy inside two honeybee hives, located just hundreds of feet away from the sculpture. Learn how Wolfgang Buttress put this amazing sculpture together.
Westville Road School (1950) in London, England, by Ernö Goldfinger
