A Friendly Alien by sandra46
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Description
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)
artistheat
Fantastic Shot
alessimarco
~Very cool!~
blondeblurr
Fascinating image and info - thanks for sharing, I would have never ever seen this kind of art - unless I travelled abroad, which I'd love to do, but is not always and virtually possible, so thanks for bringing this little world closer Sandra, I am mesmerised by this fine 'spaceship' ;-) BB
Bothellite
One really needs to Google - image the museum and it's amazing isn't it. Like no other. Has so many shapes from so many different angles. Fascinating.
jeroni
Fantastic colors and shadow.Wonderful photo
clbsmiley
Wow!! What a great reflection... Sorry I am way behind on commenting... :)
carlx
Amazing image!!!
myrrhluz
"A hovering piece of jelly" I'll bet that got a mixed reception. It is a photographer's dream! Beautiful capture! Marvelous reflections and colors! I like this a lot!
erlandpil
Wonderful capture erland
dochtersions
Unique, and splendid reflections. Great image, Sandra!
Chipka
What a marvel! I love the colors and the retro-spaceship kind of feel this has. this is so well seen and so otherworldly. It's quite an amazing find! I love the reflections and the building in such beautiful intensity. This is really well seen and presented.
flaviok
Fascinante, captura incrivel, texto excelente minha amiga, aplausos (5)
Radar_rad-dude
If there be aliens, please let them be friendly! Excellent photo and wonderfully written descriptive!
KatesFriend
'Blob architecture', I shall have to learn more about this it sounds intriguing an your photo really helps to engage the curiosity.
jarmila
bellissimi questi riflessi e lavoro in post,,bel lavoro cara Sandra
Minaya
Great and interesting photo!
MagikUnicorn
WAY COOOOOOOOOL
Rhanagaz
Weird and wonderful! Thank you for you fine capture, Sandra! :o)
bmac62
Quite something Sandra...reminds me of a building I have yet to photograph in Seattle called the EMP (Experience Music Project) building. This is another piece of fascinating public art...
bobrgallegos
A very cool Image!!!
gmvgmvgmv
Breathtakingly exotic capture! Excellent!!
RJS
Intriguing building and a wonderful capture of it. Thanks for the explanation. I never would have figured it out for myself, lol. Now I must research it further...
dreampaint
very nice ecffect reflection, that give good style.