This artist asks: what happens when the things we build turn to ash, and what comes next?
These huge public sculptures bring a sense of joy, whimsy and curious-humor to our often too-boring built environment.
Jesús Rafael Soto’s Pénétrable BBL Jaune hangs outside the Serpentine in London — 4,000 yellow tubes you don’t just see, you walk through.
Denmark’s Forest Tower at Camp Adventure spirals 45 meters above the beech canopy, with a 900 meter boardwalk that welcomes walkers of every ability.
Someone in the Netherlands picks a dandelion each spring and attaches its seeds to an LED. One at a time.
The British sculptor was commissioned to fill flagship windows in New York and Beverly Hills with surrealist versions of each city’s own streets.
A designer in Cambodia gave 90 kids one brief: draw a house for a bird. The sculptural results are stranger and more alive than most things built by professionals.