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.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the UK’s Virtual Pavilion, an online interactive website that accompanies the opening of the Shanghai Expo. The online experience is designed to enable visitors to explore and discover more about Thomas Heatherwick’s pavilion and Troika’s exhibition walkways through a series of immersive interactive environments. To visit the site click here.
This website accompanies the film that describes the concept behind Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion To view the film click here.
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.
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.
Fellow squintie down under , Fooch was interviewed on “The Architects” , 9th June 2009 on the topic of Digital Representation.
The Architects is a weekly discussion show on Triple RRR 102.7 FM (7-8pm Tuesday) talking about Architecture, Sustainabilty and Design. It is presented by Simon Knott, Stuart Harrison & Christine Phillips with Rory Hyde as the International Correspondent in Europe.
The Podcast is available online at:
http://rrrfm.libsyn.com/rss/The%20Architects
You can download the show here :
The Architects - Show 198 - Digital Representations.mp3
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/opera’s head of 3d Ryan Lintott is in the May edition of CG World + digial video (Japan). The article goes into depth about Ryans influences and inspirations which have shaped his career and how this has helped with directing the 3d on the imagina award winning film from squint/opera ‘Restoring Historic Jeddah’.
Our very own squintie Nick Taylor was interviewed when he presented our films at the recent ‘Soiree Video’ at the Le Cube cultural space in Paris; an evening dedicated to Squint/Opera.
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.
Squint/Opera’s 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”. Get your copy here.