Video: Pixel tree instead of a real tree. Christmas installation by 1024 Architecture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In recent years, calls have been heard more and more often to abandon the use of real trees for Christmas and New Year, replacing them with artificial ones. By supporting this initiative, the studio 1024 Architecture created especially for Brussels, perhaps the most amazing and beautiful artificial tree in the world!
In Belgium, it looks like real Christmas trees are no longer popular! After all, in one or another city of the country, very unusual substitutes for these festive beauties appear, created from rather extraordinary materials. For example, in Hasselt, a Christmas tree appeared from unnecessary ceramic dishes collected specifically for this purpose by residents of the village, and a pixel tree was recently opened in Brussels!
Of course, this happened, to a greater extent, not from a good life. It turns out that the Muslim community of Brussels spoke out against the installation of a traditional Christmas tree in the central square of the city, explaining this as an insult to their religious feelings. After the city council recognized the above requirement as legal, the designers from the 1024 Architecture studio decided to create a special version of the holiday tree - modern, but neutral.
An object called ABIES-Electronicus appeared in the Market Square of Brussels, initially as part of the Festival of Light. This artificial “tree”, 19 meters high, has LED illumination, allowing it to glow from the inside with lights of all colors of the rainbow.
And, of course, immediately after its appearance in the center of Brussels, this extraordinary tree caused a lot of controversy among the residents of the city, both in the Muslim community and within the Christian one.
Radical Muslims nevertheless saw in ABIES-Electronicus the outlines of a Christmas tree - a symbol of Christmas that offends them so much. Christians, on the other hand, began to demand that this pseudo-tree be replaced with a real coniferous beauty, without which the New Year holidays would not bring such joy as they should!
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