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NGV Pavilion

NGV Pavilion

Each year, the National Gallery of Victoria organise a two-stage architectural competition for a pavilion in the Grollo garden of the museum. This year, lacoste+stevenson designed a giant QR code maze creating a surprising and memorable backdrop for NGV’s collection of garden sculptures. the maze is both perceptibly man made and natural. over-time the geometry..
Drought Monument

Drought Monument

The monument is composed of large dead tree trunks precariously entwined. Each log is supported by the adjacent ones with surprisingly thin Corten steel rods. Through its scale and arrangement, the installation illustrates the climate duality: its formidable strength and its fragile equilibrium. Exceptional droughts are poorly apprehended in urban areas. This monument raises awareness..
Fully Fledged

Fully Fledged

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is undergoing major additions and renovations. At this  occasion every means should be used to advance and enhance a contemporary image for the Gallery, reflecting the maturity of Australian culture. As such, this art intervention, “Fully Fledged”, celebrates this new begining. The proposal is to integrate a contemporary artwork..
LOCKDOWN PROJECT

LOCKDOWN PROJECT

The artwork consists in selecting, collecting, and rearranging ordinary fragments of nature FOUND IN 1KM PERIMETER AROUND HOME, into miniatures trees. In the same spirit as Mono-Ha and Arte Povera, it draws out its artistic expression from matter by directly engaging in its being. An attitude particularly relevant in the age of Anthropocene. Nothing is..
CONGWONG

CONGWONG

a sculpture / installation by Katherine Norman and Thierry Lacoste More than 10,000 plastic pieces were gathered from a small beach over a period of 6 months. The location of this beach, Congwong, at the entrance to Botany Bay, where Europeans first claimed the land, is symbolic. It marks the beginning of a disconnection from..
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA

SCULPTURE BY THE SEA

Sculpture-by-the-Sea is an annual art exhibition which takes place along the shoreline of the coastal walk between Bondi and Tamarama. The event takes advantage of its dramatic location with art projects of varying scales, materials and forms responding to this unique setting. The idea for “Lend Me Your Ears’ was to enhance the aural appreciation..
SOPA ENTRIES

SOPA ENTRIES

Strike the band” is a permanent installation producing an unexpected melody coming from nowhere. Sydney Olympic Park Authority realised that the Olympic precinct was not well defined spatially. They organised a competition to create a ‘marker’ at each entrance of the site. Rather than to add a visual element into a space that was already..
VENICE BIENALE

VENICE BIENALE

    “Fundamentals” will be a biennale of Optimism, celebrating “the richness of architecture’s fundamental repertoire” over the last 100 years. The exhibition will explore the ways that Australian residential architecture has evolved from 1914 as a specific response to and celebration of light, climate and environment as a fundamental aspect of design.  The brief..
Fandeck

Fandeck

20 Staying in Hong Kong once, in a room on the 19th floor, you could see nothing from the window but the facade of the building opposite. At dawn, on one of the balconies, a man was doing his daily Tai Chi. His only company on the balcony was a tank with a single fish...