Art in Corn

Corn Palace. can anyone imagine how could one think about such creativity.

Mitchell, South Dakota

Although the “Corn Belt Exposition” began in 1892, the current Corn Palace dates from 1921. Each year, beginning in Spring and completed by the end of September, the exterior of the Corn Palace is stripped and new murals and decorations are applied, using locally grown corn, grain and grasses. Mitchell is considered the center of corn country (the high school sports team are the Kernels, the local radio station is KORN… - you get the idea?) The building is a large auditorium used for city events, including Corn Palace Week at the end of harvest.

The Corn Palace is also referred to as the World’s Largest Bird Feeder. Local pigeons feast on the decorations through the winter.

Designs are created by local artists and depict aspects of life in South Dakota.

A closer zoom of the above image.

From the front of the building.

Future Architecture

Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). As a solution to this alarming problem architect Vincent Callebaut came up with this ecotectural marvel that could serve as a luxurious future retreat for 50,000 inhabitants seeking refuge from rising waters due to global warming. He believes the world will be desperately seeking shelter from the devastations of climate change, and hopes the auto-sufficient amphibious city will serve as a luxurious solution. To bad that right now we are close to 7 billion people and this luxurious future retreat is just for 50,000 inhabitants ( just for rich people ).

Vincent Callebaut called this project “Lilypad“, but this ecotectural marvel is also called as “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees”. The whole structure is covered in green walls and roofs, the top portion covered in grasses with the inner portion featuring a palm oasis, and the under portion serving as a bed for natural sea planktons and oceanic plants. Finally if you were already planning to reserve a place to this luxurious future retreat stay calm, because Vincent Callebaut hopes that “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees” will make the transition from design to reality around the year 2100.

Mural Painted Building

If you wonder yourself how come I've posted Mural optical illusion two days in a row, the answer is more than simple. Yesterday's post inspired me to refurbish Murals category, and to give it new shine. I have collected all the mural posts from this site's archive, and arranged them to show little icon and description inside the previously mentioned category. Feel free to jump inside "Trompe L'Oeil" Murals section (French for "Fool the Eye"), and you'll quickly understand what am I babbling here. Related to this announcement, I have added interesting black and white/color photo I found lying on my hard drive. The photo below was manipulated to look black and white, so that the mural jumps out, which helps spotting it more easily. I adore this kind of art, and wish there were similarly painted surfaces back here where I live. Still nothing here, but I'll keep you informed if some artist shares my idea and starts painting buildings and sidewalks :)

via Mighty Optical Illusions

Mini Art in Mini World

This is a miniature park at Klagenfurt, Austria.

Bridge Art...!

Art in bridge making.. fantastic.



Click on the image to enlarge - Highest Bridge In The World





















This one is fully constructed and NOT in underconstruction state

Marvelous Japan

Grand bridges from The Grand Canyon

Water Bridge In Germany

Folding Bridge

It functions like this

And finally man is not the only architect