Green Carpet: Grass Trail Winds Through City Streets
It flows down the streets, up staircases and around corners - a green carpet, unfurled like a leaf, in a city of stone. This path of grass was installed in the picturesque French village of ...
Tag: public art
Street Seats for the People: Bold Guerrilla Furniture
Just try to locate a truly comfortable outdoor, public place to lounge around your city. Typically what you'll find are rigid benches that discourage people from lingering too long. Artist Oliver ...
Good Clean Fun: Interactive Games Tidy Urban Spaces
It doesn't matter where you go in the world: it seems like litter is always an unwelcome part of the scenery. The Swiss city of Lucerne decided to do something about their litter problem by ...
Feeling the Earth Move: Urban Sidewalk Liquid Intervention
The normal urban environment is hard, angular and not often playful. We go about our business with the type of calculated indifference cultivated through years of city dwelling. But when that ...
Playfully Serious: Interactive Sculpture With Killer Curves
From a distance, this structure looks like just another winding, looping roller coaster. But look a little closer and you'll see that all is not as it appears. This roller coaster is actually a ...
Let There Be Light: 14 Illuminating Art Installations
LED lights that respond to bodily movements, choreographed bursts of brightness emerging unexpectedly from a tree, fluorescent tubes arranged into chaotic but beautiful sculptures - these 14 ...
An Army Of Fun: FL Sidewalk Invaded by LEGO Soldiers
If you can't get to China to see the astonishing terracotta warriors in their pits, seeing this whimsical tribute to them might be almost as good. It was part of a street art festival in ...
See What? 14 Amazing & Unexpected Urban Art Installations
All ephemeral, lasting a few weeks or maybe just a few hours, temporary street art installations are a colorful and engaging addition to ever-evolving urban settings. Some are so subtle that only ...
Spiraling Tower of Babel Made of Books in Buenos Aires
Seven stories tall, this Tower of Babel is no long-lost artifact from biblical times but rather an artistic tribute to the city of Buenos Aires' new designation as 'World Book Capital 2011'. The ...
Confetti + Walls + Tape = Sticky Spray-Paint Alternative
Graffiti is typically seen as a destructive, unsightly problem for cities - but there are, of course, times when it is incredibly beautiful. The Coriandoli project from French artist Eltono ...
