As Bansky's Dismaland un-amusement park opened in the UK this week, I am looking at the mirror funhouses. As a boy in the USA, part of every boy's life was visiting the mirrored funhouses at the traveling county fair or beachside amusement park. Best with my brothers as you laugh in the curved mirrors or try to find each other in mirror maze. Sometime before age 12, everyone figures out that … [Read more...]
Mirror, Mirror on the Ceiling. Why? Foster, Eliasson, MVRDV and others.
Mirrors on the walls have been popular since the unveiling of great hall of mirrors at Versailles in 1678. Adds to the sparkle and apparent size of the room. Exterior walls of mirror glass begins in the early 1970s in the USA by architects like Cesar Pelli and I.M. Pei. Reduces the scale on the street and skyline. Merge with the sky. But mirrors on the ceiling?? The first reference is the … [Read more...]