Musical Art

This is called, 'The Singing Ringing Tree', a public Art work commissioned by Burnley CC, overlooking the Pennines in Lancashire.

I think that this is a beautiful example of a land sculpture,making the environment integral to the work - in this instance the wind. Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu.

There is another one which I came across, where the wind is used to create sound and this is equally as beautiful.

This one is called 'The Sea organ of Zadar, created by award winning architect Nikola Basic in 2005.

Solarium, Landform

These images are really interesting to me because they are much more innovative than some designs for public spaces. The using of the gradient in the hill - or building of earth to create a gradient. Both of the pieces below seem to be making a feature of the angles.

a+t Espacios Colectivos in common III, Solarium La Chappelle St-Luc, 2006 pg 26

In the 'Solarium' group, the bench, is created with strange angles in it and more obviously the scale, promoting different types of usage - for instance sunbathing, meeting with larger groups of people. Again this is much more unusual then the norm, and very aesthetically pleasing in my opinion.

http://www.civic.org.uk/burnley1.html

In PASW image the designer seems to have created a hill from flat land through adding earth, which I think is an interesting use of the space, creating a small amphitheatre with steps into the earth.