Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi plans to build a structure supporting a living room which would enclose Columbus Circle’s historic monument, 6 stories above ground. The project, developed by the Public Art Fund, will allow the New York community to scale scaffolding and entertain an intimate face-to-face visit with the statue, surrounded by coffee tables, couches, and and the comforts of home. Workers will use the living room as an enclosed perch for restoration of the monument when the exhibition closes on November 18.

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Via Estuaire 2007

Once a center of naval activity, the newest and certainly most eye-catching bateau on France’s Loire estuary is armored with a shell of mirrors, reflecting the riverbank’s factories, natural marshes… and resident gigantic floating plastic duck? Florentijn Hofman’s “Canard du Bain”, a titanic incarnation of every child’s favorite yellow bath time friend is absurdly placed within a dingy, industrial habitat. A cartoon-like beacon, the river-bound sculpture injects a certain lightheartedness into the milieu. If it were not so innocent looking, its size would suggest that it could wipe out a nearby cluster of sailboats in a single gulp. (more…)