Tour Some Cool Bubbletecture From Around the World

In the new book Bubbletecture: Inflatable Architecture and Design, artists, architects and designers from around the world mash-up architecture and inflatables.

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Old Meets New

Environmental artist Steve Messam created "Pointed" as a conversation between the old and the new and to "disrupt and transform visitors' perceptions" of an 18th-century setting at the stately Scottish manor house Mellerstain House in Gordan, Scotland.

Bubbletecture Book

The British publisher Phaidon has collected an array of projects around the world, that use inflatable elements to create whimsical Bubbletecture structures, artworks and design features.

Foam World

Created by Bjarke Ingels Group: BIG for various events around Denmark, "Skum" ("foam" in Danish) is an inflatable pavilion—made from the same material as bouncy houses—that can be easily transported and can be inflated in just seven minutes.

Discover Eden

Eight interlinked transparent geodesic domes compose the Eden Project created by Grimshaw Architects in Cornwall, England. The domes contain thousands of plant species to simulate a humid, tropical environment in an unexpected place.

Fantastic Plastic

Created for the Nave 11 gallery space at the Naves Matadero cultural center in Madrid and created by architecture firm Plastique Fantastique, this playful room was inspired by a rubber glove. Visitors could walk throughout the "wrist" and "fingers" of the sculpture and watch videos projected in the space.

Summer Igloo

Created by American artist Virginia Melnyk as part of the Clhere Art Crawl in Beijing, China, "Summer Igloo" uses ordinary inflatable pool toys to create a fun geodesic dome. After the art event, the toys were donated to a local children's charity.

Inner Tube

Created by Polish design house Zieta Prozessdesign Studio, this pavilion of 35 connected arches was created for an island in Wroclaw, Poland as part of a restoration project of the area following floods in the 1990s. The structure uses innovative Free Internal Pressure Forming to create durable and stable lightweight forms.

Having a Ball

Considered the world's longest-running street art work, the ongoing RedBall Project from American artist Kurt Perschke is a temporary art event that has traveled to over 30 cities around the globe including Toronto, Paris, Chicago and Sydney. Created in 2001 the huge vinyl sphere is squeezed into different unexpected places in its host city every day like bridges, buildings and public squares.

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Tour Some Cool Bubbletecture From Around the World

Related To:

Shop This Look

Old Meets New

Bubbletecture Book

Foam World

Discover Eden

Fantastic Plastic

Summer Igloo

Inner Tube

Having a Ball

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