Friday, September 16, 2011

Spotlight on Iceland

Being that the contributors to the Operable Window seem to pick up and post a disproportionally large amount of work coming out of Iceland it is time to compile a post of strictly work from the cold island in the North Atlantic:

Starting with this new, and stunning, time lapse video of the Icelandic Aurora by August Ingvarsson:



Followed by this work, previously featured here in a post about geographic branding, that had our hearts beating like a jungle drum:



An bit of Unbuilt Architecture for an Icelandic Pylon Design Competition creates a new typology of high voltage power lines and pylons:





This design work was done by Jin Choi and Thomas Shine of Choi+Shine in 2008.

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