25.06.2007 by Zoltan

Blur Building

Coming from the horse’s mouth, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is “an interdisciplinary firm straddling architecture, urban design, visual arts and the performing arts”. You should definitely check them out, because they make beautiful hybrid “things” like the Blur Building in the photo above.

From their site: “Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 31,500 high-pressure mist nozzles… Upon entering the fog mass, visual and acoustic references are erased, leaving only an optical “white-out” and the “white-noise” of pulsing nozzles. Blur is an anti-spectacle. Contrary to immersive environments that strive for high-definition visual fidelity with ever-greater technical virtuosity, Blur is decidedly low-definition: there is nothing to see but our dependence on vision itself”.

Damn impressive is what that means in plain english. Wish I had of seen it myself…