Over the weekend a test lab for the world’s first underground park opened its doors to visitors in New York. Housed in the former Essex Street Market building in Manhattan, it is the first step toward making former NASA engineer James Ramsey’s idea for the Lowline a reality. His plans for the Lowline propose transforming a disused trolley terminal into a subterranean park using innovative solar technology.
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We talked with Fabrice Le Nezet about his new installation at Dalston Junction
If your journey to work takes you through Dalston Junction station in east London then you may have come across several hefty blocks of concrete suspended from the ceiling. Intrigued? We were, so we had a chat with designer Fabrice Le Nezet about his installation Elasticity which we think is ingenious. It reminds us of Measure which he spoke to us about before-, as the materials in both pieces appear to be in tension in an impossible way. Elasticity creates a sort of optical illusion as the blocks seem to be stretching the orange bars which support them like giant rubber bands, almost about to career into an innocent London commuter.
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