Month: April 2015

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The Pentagon (9.11.01) Memorial

Image by dbking
A Description of the symbolism inside the Pentagon Memorial……

A MEMORIAL PARK is inscribed with 184 MEMORIAL UNITS. Each and every unit is committed to an individual victim – its placement and spot within the collective field a special instance. This highly certain and qualitatively objective organizational technique yields seemingly random outcomes. The field is organized as a timeline of the victims’ ages, spanning from Dana Falkenberg, 3 years old, to John D. Yamnicky, age 71. Although each memorial unit locates itself on its respective age line, the units are then organized by birth date along the age line. Inherent tendencies – the clustering of specific age groups, the gap among the children and adults – are clearly evident and meaningful, although infinitely interpretive.

Private interpretation is further sparked by embedding layers of specificity into the orientation of each and every memorial unit inside the expansive web site. Fifty-nine memorial units face one particular direction, 125 face the other – as a result distinguishing victims on board American Airlines Flight 77 from those who had been inside the Pentagon. When going to a memorial committed to a victim who was in the Pentagon, the visitor will see their engraved name and the Pentagon in the very same view. Conversely, one would see the engraved name of a victim on Flight 77 with the sky. Although extremely particular, this distinction is really subtle when deployed regularly throughout the web site. It adds a level of difference to the visual and spatial field, therefore provoking visitors’ curiosity, although simultaneously telling the story of those involved in the events that took place here that day.

Elegant in its self-supporting kind, the memorial unit is at after a glowing light pool, a cantilevered bench and a place for the permanent inscription of every single victim’s name. Employing Laptop Numerically Controlled (CNC) technologies typical to the aerospace market, the cast duplex stainless steel memorial unit is easily mass-made and extremely articulate. Its structural cross-section not only reflects radiant light from the glowing pool of water onto the surrounding gravel field, but also permits that fields to be continuous. A polymer concrete utilizing the identical gravel aggregate located on the ground is poured into the memorial unit, seemingly “freezing” the gravel in spot and floating it above the light pool. This surface is polished smooth to attain a “terrazzo” finish. As the memorial unit grows out of the ground, the stabilized gravel field is interrupted only by moments of glowing light and water, and the engraved names float above these moments.

Though loose sufficient to hear and really feel footsteps upon it, stabilized gravel is a hard, ADA-compliant surface. Disbursed all through the complete website, the porous stabilized gravel field is contained within two perimeter benches that serve as planters for ornamental grasses. These grasses act as a soft screen demarcating the boundary of the memorial park. Further, the combined length of the perimeter benches plus the bench portion of each and every memorial unit supplies more than two,100 linear feet of seating surface. Birth years, utilized to find the age lines, are inlaid stainless steel numbers set flush with the finished horizontal surface of the perimeter benches. The birth years are flanked by the stainless steel age lines that permeate the whole internet site.

The western edge of the site is defined with the AGE WALL – a wall that “grows” in height one inch per year relative to the age lines that organize the site at big. As one moves deeper into the website the wall gets higher – it grows from 3 inches above the perimeter bench (at Dana’s memorial age-line) to 71 inches above the bench (at John’s). Strategically, this wall grows as a barrier is required among the memorial park and the delivery lane that encroaches upon the web site at its northwestern edge. Experientially, this wall communicates the organizational technique to the drivers passing by on the freeway, while still enabling them to peer into the site from afar. From within the internet site it supplies a shadowy backdrop for the lacy ornamental grasses that are planted along its base.

A vivid canopy of colour and light gives shade all through the web site, as trees are clustered in conjunction with the disbursement of memorial units. Numerous Maple species, specially the Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum) serve this scheme nicely. The Paperbark is one of the last Maples to drop their leaves, retaining their beautiful fall foliage properly into the winter months – this suspension of time will contribute to the sublime beauty of the Park. Upon maturity, the cinnamon-colored bark starts to exfoliate, exhibiting exquisite texture and colour and all round year-round interest. On an intimate level, the interplay amongst leaves, light, bark, gravel, grasses, water, and the senses will be greatly enhanced with these sophisticated trees.

Take my Lightning but Don’t Steal my Thunder – Covent Garden

Image by Dave Pearce (London)
This surreal stunt is the function of 30-year-old artist Alex Chinneck, master of architectural illusion, who has previously turned buildings upside down, pulled off their facades, and let them slither down in a heap on the pavement. A Uri Geller of bricks and mortar, this is 1 of his most ambitious functions yet, fabricating an imaginary eastern entrance to the market hall that he’s then torn in half and jacked aloft, its Portland stone columns and granite walls left brutally severed.

“I wanted to play on the theatricality of this area, and make some thing physically extraordinary,” he says. In location for the subsequent 3 weeks, it is currently attracting crowds of gawping passers-by, as a visually arresting one particular-liner, seemingly made for the Instagram era.

The illusion of weightlessness is created feasible by a lot of polystyrene and 16 tonnes of steel. A 12-metre armature hidden inside the structure is connected to the ground by way of an innocuous marketplace cart, in which a 6-tonne counterweight stops it all from toppling more than. The effect of weathered stonework has been immaculately recreated by Richard Nutbourne and his team of scenic artists – who normally work on stage sets for the opera and ballet next door. Covering the CNC-milled polystyrene blocks with plaster and granite sand, they have mimicked the neighbouring gnarled stone even down to the detail of moss, electrostatically flocked onto the surface.

“My perform is typically very straightforward in its idea,” says Chinneck, “but it’s a nightmare in execution.” Eight months in the generating, the Covent Garden installation is the product of a one hundred-powerful team of architects and engineers, carpenters and set-builders, and much more than 500 hours of digital carving. It follows earlier commissions in the piazza from Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, Banksy and Sam Taylor-Johnson.