Pentagram has teamed up with placemaking agency Futurecity and renowned graphic artist Karel Martens to create a permanent installation at the newly opened Cancer Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. The piece is one of five major art commissions in the centre, which was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
Read MoreHarry Nuriev still remembers his first ride in an elevator. He was a teenager. “While growing up in low-income projects in Russia, elevators were not very commonplace,” he explains. He has since been in many other elevators all over the world, but his latest project, The Elevator, a retrofuturistic installation he unveils today at the 15th edition of the design fair Design Miami/Basel, is inspired by a lift’s speed and its quality as a room that is constantly in motion. It also continues his fascination with the metallic, the monochrome, and the mid-century Italian modernism that has been typical of his firm Crosby Studios’ well-received work.
Read MoreJapans rich history of craft and design dates back ever since humans settled on its islands. Traditionally artisans and trained workers used natural materials to craft functional objects. These objects were created to be used, but also to be displayed, a blurring of form and function which continues to be emphasized throughout Japan today.
Read MoreNeon is present all around us, it reminds us of the modern and exciting urban landscape and can also appear nostalgic and old-school at the same time. This is what makes the blinged out 2.5-metre glowing beetle on the back of the elevator wall the perfect centrepiece for W-Hotels new luxury hotel in Brisbane.
Read MoreDesign duo david/nicolas have crafted two exclusive elevator cabins using their signature design approach of combining high quality craftsmanship and old world nostalgia. The result is a juxtaposition of retro-futurism and a truly one of a kind elevator experience.
Read MoreExpo 2010 was held in Shanghai, China. The international event gave counties and corporations a stage to showcase their unique culture, identity and technology alongside local industry and innovation. The Finnish elevator behemoth Kone designed a three story glass shaft and complimentary elevator cab that shuttled people through the vertical landscape.
Read MoreNicknamed “The Vessel,” the dynamic structure that has captured the attention of media, designers, critics, as well as visiting and resident selfie hunters alike rose out of the multi-billion dollar Hudsons Yards development in New York in early 2019. At 150ft (45 metres), stairs climb up in every direction providing the public a one of a kind vertical climb unlike anything constructed before.
Read MoreMovement, travel and the circulation of people and goods are constant themes in Gabriel Orozco’s work. Elevator is a modified elevator cab and modern art installation that distorts the perception of space. Cut horizontally, it’s shorter than a standard elevator cab. When you walk inside, which originally the idea is that a person can walk inside the elevator, you feel the distortion, you realize that the subject is transformed.
Read MoreArtist Olafur Eliasson has completed his first building named Fjordenhus in Denmark. The playful building is the headquarters of Kirk Kapital, which is the holding and investment company for Lego family wealth fund. The one of a kind building is entered from the quay by a footbridge that leads into a circular public space. The open area features three of the artist’s sculptures and a mirrored ceiling piece that reflects the light of the fjord back into the occupied public space.
Read MoreWhile graphic design is not new in the elevator industry, companies like Adobe and Amazon have leveraged the unique elevator environment in the past to brand their offices, Lumine has taken the concept much further with the evolving collection of art elevators in their Japan department store.
Read MoreThe 'CHANGE' elevator intervention, envisioned by designers Kristine Matthews and Karen Cheng, both on the faculty at the University of Washington resulted in a unique collaboration between art and business—two distinctly contrasting disciplines. The result, a custom elevator installation that allow riders to reflect upon the dynamic relationship between business and change.
Read MoreA Belgian warehouse elevator get's a graphic makeover by illustrator Darrin Umboh. A member of the Dutch artist agency Shop Around, his work explores traditional graffiti styles with contemporary illustration for an instantly recognizable effect.
Read MoreThe Balfour Building is one of Toronto's lasting piece of Art Deco architecture owned and maintained by WTF Group. Their dedication to preservation and heritage inspired this custom wall graphic recreating the architectural elevations by Jewish Architect Benjamin Brown.
Read MoreThe 5 storey Dominion Public Building was built between 1926 to 1935 for the government of Canada at southeast corner of Front and Bay street, Toronto.
Read MoreArtist Richard Artschwager has designed the insides of four elevators at the new Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City. The elevators are the only permanent art in the building, whose galleries opened their doors in 2015.
Read MoreThe Chateau Laurier, not to be confused with the Canada’s Grand Railway Hotel Chateau Laurier in Ottawa that opened nearly in 1912, has uncovered two original wood panelled elevator with manual sliding doors, and French style baroque oil paintings directly on the elevator walls.
Read MoreAdobe graphics and branding were applied to the elevator lobby. The building is full of different companies, now when you arrive on the Adobe floor, you are welcomed with bold graphics! While graphic design is not new in the elevator industry, companies are beginning to leverage the unique and valuable space in and around elevators to better brand their physical environment.
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