A Friendly Alien by sandra46

Photography • Urban/Cityscape • posted on Jun 01, 2011

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In 2000 the London-based architects spacelab won the competition for a new museum for contemporary art in Graz, Austria. They proposed a transparent, bluish, organic shell that looked like a hovering piece of jelly. The Kunsthaus Graz, Grazer Kunsthaus, or Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria. Its exhibition program specializes in contemporary art of the last four decades. Its unusual form differs radically from conventional exhibition contexts, many of which maintain the traditions of the modernist White Cube. The team of architects used an innovative stylistic idiom, known as blob architecture within the historical ambiance of the Murvorstadt. Thus, the gigantic building affectionately called the Friendly Alien by its creators Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, in form and material, stands out consciously against the surrounding baroque roof landscape with its red clay roofing tiles. Here you can see the reflections of both the baroque house close to it and the street on the blue skin. The protuberances are windows, which lighten the interior together with neon spirals, as you can see in my previous post. Thank you for your kind comments.

Comments (53)

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Feliciti

10:14AM | Wed, 01 June 2011

cool shot and excellent Reflections !!

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flora-crassella

1:04PM | Wed, 01 June 2011

FANTASTIC image!!!!!!! Really great!!!!!!!

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durleybeachbum

1:38PM | Wed, 01 June 2011

Just marvellous! An exciting pic.

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brycek

1:40PM | Wed, 01 June 2011

Wonderful capture and reflections!!

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Hendesse

1:58PM | Wed, 01 June 2011

Looks cool. Fantastic colors and reflections.

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rockstrider

1:58PM | Wed, 01 June 2011

Superb colours and reflection Sandra!

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jophoto

3:16PM | Wed, 01 June 2011

Incredible building! I missed your previous post. I'm going to have to check it out!....Oh! I did see it! Now it makes sense. I didn't know what I was looking at before. WOW!

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