Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Cityscapes

Unreal Scene


Chinese artist Liu Jianhua created this cityscape of Shanghai out of poker chips and dice.

San Francisco (edible)



Liz Hickock made a cityscape of The City out of Jell-O.

San Francisco (inedible)


Here's another one by Zhan Wang, who used stainless steel pots and pans, as well as silverware.

Egg City

I don't know much about the background of this Egg City, but it's also the image of a RMB 50 bill.

Biscuit City

In his installation titled "Eating the City," Chinese artist Sang Dong used about 72,000 biscuits, including "digestives, chocolate digestives, rich tea, hobnobs, caramels and fruit shortcake."

Atlantis Cityscape


Gayle Chong Kwan used hundreds of old plastic bottles and food packagings to create a cityscape of the lost city.

Colour Reading and Contexture

Jacob Dahlgren used colored tiles and wooden blocks to create this virtual cityscape installation.

Urville

Urville is an island off Côte d'Azur, between Cannes and St. Tropez. If you've never heard of it, that's because it exists only in the mind of a savant named Gilles Tréhin. Gilles started building Urville, named after Durmont d'Urville, a French scientific base in the Antarctic, when he was 12. Now, he has hundreds of detailed drawings, as well as a "historical" narrative on the founding of the city.

Cityscape II

For her exhibition titled "Uncharted Terrain," Grace Grothous made an imaginary topographic landscale out of discarded circuit boards.

Jerusalem Sphere

Inspired by ancient maps showing Jerusalem as a circular city, Frank Meisler created this sculpture of the city in the form of a sphere. It is a replica of the Jerusalem Fountain, commissioned by the King Solomon Hotel.

RPM-1200 "Junk City"

Japanese artist Enoki Chu created his futuristic cityscape out of polished old drill bits and machine parts.

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