Wednesday, 12 October 2011
The Blue Lagoon - Reykjavik
The Blue Lagoon, Reykjavik is Iceland's most trumpeted geothermal spa, a surreal splash of colour and warmth amidst a landscape of black lava. The Blue Lagoon is actually artificial, dug into the middle of a flat expanse of black lava and filled by the outflow from the nearby Svartsengi Thermal Power Station.
Monday, 12 September 2011
The America's Cup World Series comes to Plymouth
Fast and furious, daring and spectacular!
The America's Cup World Series event is the best sailors on the fastest boats racing on the edge around Plymouth Sound. Nine teams battled it out on their high tech, AC45 catamarans pushing themselves and their boats to the limit.
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Jaume Plensa at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
YSP presents an extraordinary body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Encouraging tactile and sensory exploration, this vibrant exhibition includes a 50-metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters, large illuminated sculptures in the landscape, and engraved gongs that visitors can strike to fill the gallery with sound.
Plensa’s sculpture gives physical form to the intangible, using the body as a way of exploring what it means to be human and engaging with universal themes: love, memory, language and despair. Other works need the presence of a human body to make them complete, such as Song of Songs. These glass cabins, immersed in coloured light, are only large enough for one visitor to enter and are spaces for solitary contemplation.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Architects of Air Amococo Luminarium at Sheffield Cathedral
"A luminarium is a sculpture people enter to be moved to a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour.
A luminarium has great appeal for everyone. Appreciated by all ages, all cultures, all abilities including the elderly and wheelchair uses. A luminarium is the most inclusive offering.
Amococo is more than just an walk in art installation, it is a paradox that such a stimulating environment can simultaneously be so calming and comforting. Many people find the luminarium a place for rest or meditation.
Each luminarium is a dazzling maze of winding paths and soaring domes where Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and Gothic cathedrals meld into inspiring monument to the beauty of light and colour.
Architects of Air is an internationally renowned inflatable walk in art installation, manufactured from translucent PVC, the Luminarium, Amococo.
The structure transforms natural light into a kaleidoscope of liquid light and colour spilling across labyrinthine pathways, cavernous domes and curved walls. The initial reaction is often one of wonder and delight at the unexpected beauty created ,often described as walking through a stained glass window.
No two visits to a structure are alike, as the atmosphere inside alters according to changing weather and changing light outside. The experience is also affected by how the public inhabits the Luminarium."
www.architects-of-air.com
A luminarium has great appeal for everyone. Appreciated by all ages, all cultures, all abilities including the elderly and wheelchair uses. A luminarium is the most inclusive offering.
Amococo is more than just an walk in art installation, it is a paradox that such a stimulating environment can simultaneously be so calming and comforting. Many people find the luminarium a place for rest or meditation.
Each luminarium is a dazzling maze of winding paths and soaring domes where Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and Gothic cathedrals meld into inspiring monument to the beauty of light and colour.
Architects of Air is an internationally renowned inflatable walk in art installation, manufactured from translucent PVC, the Luminarium, Amococo.
The structure transforms natural light into a kaleidoscope of liquid light and colour spilling across labyrinthine pathways, cavernous domes and curved walls. The initial reaction is often one of wonder and delight at the unexpected beauty created ,often described as walking through a stained glass window.
No two visits to a structure are alike, as the atmosphere inside alters according to changing weather and changing light outside. The experience is also affected by how the public inhabits the Luminarium."
www.architects-of-air.com
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Duxford - Imperial War Museum
Duxford has been part of the Imperial War Museum since the 1970s, but its history dates back to the closing stages of the First World War.
It achieved everlasting fame as the first RAF station to operate the Spitfire, for its role in the Battle of Britain and as an USAAF fighter base. Continually updated and improved during its time as an operational station, Historic Duxford contains some of the best-preserved RAF buildings in the country. Over 30 of these are listed as buildings of special architectural and historic interest, and as a group they form the finest example of a pre-1945 fighter station.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011
The Festival of Speed is the largest motoring garden party in the world – a unique summer weekend that brings together an impossibly heady mix of cars, stars and motor sport ‘royalty’ to create the largest car culture event in the world. Held in the immaculate grounds of Goodwood House, this annual hill-climb event is a true celebration of motor sport and all things automotive.
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