Squint/Opera have designed large scale bespoke artwork for the walls of Sonys’ Columbia Pictures, Soho. Each of the 11 rooms have unique names created by Sony, which were used to inspire our designs.
Created for the Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2010 Squint/Opera now create stereoscopic 3d films. For more information or samples please get in touch.
In collaboration with Buro North and Peter Bennetts we’ve visualised an alternative use for Melbourne’s conceptually flawed Southern Star Big Wheel which is now non operational due to heat damage. We imagine a Wind Driven Solar Sail Powered Wheel that will act as the central docking station for a new fleet of Flying Steam Powered Punk Trams, invented to alleviate traffic congestion in a newly greened Melbourne. This project has been published in Monument Magazine, Expose 8 and Architecture Australia.
As featured on both the RSA’s Arts & Ecology website and The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts’ website, Squint Opera’s image ‘An afternoon Plunge’ from the Flooded London series, is part of the new Art Not Oil 2010 desk diary. Art Not Oil, the organisation that encourages people to create artworks which explore the dangers posed to the climate by the oil and gas industries, has brought out this diary to celebrate its seventh year in existence. The diary is available to buy here.
Squint Opera and Doodlearth were invited to the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival last month. Several of Squint’s films were screened and festival goers got creative with the ongoing Doodlearth installation in the foyer. Serge Seidlitz was interviewed on Vrijdag Gesprek TV show about Doodlearth and Squint’s work and Jules’ interview appears on the festival’s website.
The recently completed Green Lighthouse, the first public CO2 neutral building in Denmark, will be showcased at the forthcoming UN Climate Conference (COP15) being held in Copenhagen in December. Our film, commissioned by Velux, will be played to demonstrate the building’s excellent intelligent and sustainable design.
Released today in the Architects Journal and Building Design were three images that we created for DCM Architects showing the proposed new visitor centre at Stonehenge. Although the controversy over this project has been great, DCM have acknowledged the challenge, and the responsibility, and have endeavoured to design a modest building that blends with its surroundings, avoiding as much disturbance of the ancient site as possible.
The images show the one-story visitors centre with its ‘forest’ of columns and ‘undulating canopy’, subtly perched away from the stone circle, sitting lightly amongst its surrounding landscape.
Following on from the success of Doodlearth, Squint/Opera and Serge Seidlitz have created a new arts cafe called The Doodle Bar and the launch party is on Friday 5th June 2009 from 6pm until midnight.
We believe in the Freedom of Doodle. We wanted to create a space that will act as a platform for people to get together, to inspire, share, develop and evolve their ideas, unleash their potential creativity and have fun! White-washed from top to bottom and with an illustrated map of London weaving across the walls, all those who come to the Doodle Bar are encouraged to doodle on the walls, tables, chairs and even the waiters.
Come along, EVERYBODY WELCOME.
Squintie Alice Scott, and Sam Britton from Squint Opera Music, will be giving a presentation at the Thrilling Wonder Stories: Speculative Futures for an Alternative Present event at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London on Friday 29th May 2009. Theirs will be part of a series of talks given by a varied and fantastic line up of authors, architects, artists and designers who will be discussing the speculative visions of the future that we devise, investigating how ’slipping suggestively between the real and the imagined, they offer a distanced view from which to survey the consequences of various social, environmental and technological scenarios’. This free event will run from 11am until 5pm and is open to all.
From the front cover of icon… to page 28 in the News of The World on Sunday. Our design for a supermarket of the future has appeared in NOTW, Sunday 10 May 2009.
squint/opera was asked to design the front cover of the icon magazine (June 2009). Here is our interpretation of urban farming in London and some more pages from the magazine showing different stages of the image along the way.
Squint/Operas latest work has just been featured in the book - “Beyond Architecture” which is the first publication of its kind to document the creative exploration of architecture and urban propositions in the contemporary arts. The projects collected in this book demonstrate how not only architects and designers but also artists are taking architecture as a starting point for experimentation. Click here to get your copy.
We have just completed a series of stills as part of a planning application for 4,000 new homes at Barking Riverside for Shepperd Robson and Maccreanor Lavington .
Various architectural news sites have picked up on it and have used our images
Art Not Oil, in conjunction with The Rising Tide Project, have picked up on our recent Flooded London series and have featured ‘St Paul’s: A Late Afternoon Plunge’ in their gallery. For more information click here.
come and doodle!
at the British Film Institute 14-17th November - more details on the onedotzero website.