The question was…
‘The Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition focuses on London design.
If you could design one thing to benefit the capital what would it be?’
And this is what Ab thinks! :
“London needs a floating desert island to drift down the River Thames, stopping at random, unexpected locations.
An oasis for escape. A space without time or location, drifting freely and liberating people from the city.
A liberated, floating, desert island would be a great way discover the Thames which is a magical element of London.
The island, free of everything except desert, should be a magical place for contemplation and escape, taking you to and showing you places you have never seen.
We often take London for granted and need a mechanism for discovery.”
Image courtesy Yosuke Watanabe
[To be published in Design Week in a couple of weeks]
Posted By Rina | 20 July 2009 |
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This touring exhibition (designed by Ab Rogers Design), which first showed at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris, stopped by London at the Design Museum, then made it’s way to sunny Barcelona!
(But very recently moved to Madrid, and is currently showing at the Caixa Forum, Madrid.)
Image courtesy of John Short
Image courtesy of John Short
Image courtesy of John Short
Image courtesy of John Short
Please refer to our web site’s ‘Projects’ page -> ‘Richard Rogers + Architects’ for more information regarding this exhibition.
Posted By Rina | 17 July 2009 |
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It’s been quite some time ago - and probably some of you who had a recent visit to the Turbine Hall would have seen it already - but last October, Ab Rogers Design had installed 3 gigantic donation boxes in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern.
Image courtesy of John Short
Image courtesy of John Short
The larger-than-life boxes are deliberately prominent and difficult to miss, standing 2.7 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide. Yet their transparent acrylic construction offers very little to interrupt the visitor’s view: only a sign and a series of luminous coin deflectors. They are windows rather than monuments, inviting visitors to look through them as much as at them.
Visitors stretch to reach the highest slot they can. Their coins drop into the slot and ricochet through a series of colourful coin deflectors before falling with a clink to the bottom of the donation box. Each donation transforms this minimal construction into a kinetic composition of colour, light and sound.
Posted By Rina | 17 July 2009 |
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