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Image: Mark Pinder. 'Consisting of blue glass from recycled Harvey's Bristol Cream bottles set in white resin' ,  Blue Carpet by Heatherwick Studio won the design competition in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK for the city's first new public square. Before the launching of Blue Carpet 2002, the long narrow site was more of a disused road than a square although it is close to the city's busy inner ring road while surrounded by different types of buildings. After 2002, number of visitors for Laing Gallery in the square has increased by 57%. The design: 'The space was unified with a single surface using tiles, developed for the project over four years, consisting of blue glass from recycled Harvey's Bristol Cream bottles set in white resin. The surface articulates around trees and distorts as it meets buildings, and is perforated around bollards and peeled back to form benches. The square's trees, imported from Germany and Holland, were the lar...

By   Nicole Rae   @simmerandshoot   ·   On December 30, 2011 Yesterday, we posted a piece about the amazing light painting of  Brian Matthew Hart . If you thought that was impressive, you’re going to love this. According to  Video Mapping Blog , video projection mapping is “an exciting new projection technique that can turn almost any surface into a dynamic video display. Specialized software is used to warp and mask the projected image to make it fit perfectly on irregularly shaped screens. When done right, the end result is a dynamic projection installation that transcends ordinary video projection.” Uh, yeah. Translation: “it looks awesome”. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United Arab Emirates National Day,  Obscura Digital  put together this incredible light display using video projection mapping onto the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. They used forty-four projectors to cover the 600 x 351 foot high surface ...