Video: On the culture of consumption: installation at the entrance to a shopping center in Shanghai
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The famous Dutch tandem of designers from UNStudio presented in Shanghai one of their latest creations - a spatial installation with mirrored elements, at the same time serving as the decoration of the entrance to one of the city's shopping centers.
The installation by the Dutch duo, which is a thirty-meter arched corridor, appeared in 2014 in one of the most famous shopping and entertainment districts of Shanghai - Xintiandi. Xintiandi is considered a must-see point for tourists, because it is here, in the city center, at the junction of Huaihai, Huangpi and Madan Streets, where numerous coffee shops, bookstores, restaurants and, of course, shopping centers are located. The UNStudio installation took pride of place just in front of the entrance to one of these centers.
“Our installation is connected with the culture of consumption,” says one of the co-founders of UNStudio, Ben van Berkel, “by culture of consumption we mean not only shops, there is, say, a culture of consumption of images, images or buildings that surround us” … “Our task,” van Berkel continues, “was to“dress up”the space by creating a kind of kaleidoscopic podium that you can walk along and at the same time observe what surrounds us from a new perspective. Thus, we hope that everyone will come to rethink the concepts of the city and the cultural environment."
UNStudio has been around since 1988. The creators and permanent masterminds of the workshop are designers and architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos. Initially, the studio was called "Van Berkel & Bos", but in 1998 it was decided to change the name, which has remained with the studio to this day. Today the studio's offices are located in Amsterdam and Shanghai, and the tandem has numerous successful projects under its belt, such as the Ardmore residential complex in Singapore, the Yongjia World Trade Center in Wenzhou, China, the international airport in Kutaisi (Georgia), the virtual engineering center in Stuttgart (Germany).
Another mirror installation was presented at one of the "five royal squares" in Paris by the French artist Arnaud Lapierre. Through the work "The Ring", the artist strove to show the ramified network of urban space, the rhythm of the city, its internal organization.
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