KENGO KUMA Oribe Tea House Pavilion, Japan 2005
A temporary, mobile tea room. Corrugated plastic boards 5mm thick are arrayed at 65mm intervals and fixed together using banding bands. Once the bands are unfastened, the tea room returns to an assembly of cheap elements, making it easy to move. The entire form resembles an irregularly-shaped cocoon, and is an homage to Furuta Oribe’s deformed tea ceremony bowl.
Turkish artist Ahmet Öğüt created a gigantic helium balloon in the shape of Magritte’s floating rock, as part of an outdoor installation for Belgian art festival, TRACK: a contemporary city conversation in Ghent. Ahmet replaced the mysterious castle on top of the rock with a replica of the Vooruit building, a cooperative where the working-class people of Ghent assembled from the end of the nineteenth century until the early 1970s and which ran both a centre for festive occasions and a newspaper .
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