Public art installation

GOLDEN MONOLITHS Lille - France 2025 SpY's Golden Monoliths transforms the urban landscape of the French city of Lille through the installation of fourteen golden shipping containers in a vertical position, aligned along its main street.  This monumental intervention reconfigures the everyday perception of the public environment, turning industrial objects into totemic symbols that alter our understanding of space. Ruben PB Ruben PB The street ceases to be a simple space of transit and becomes a ritual corridor, a passageway between monolithic columns that challenge the spectator to confront them. Passers-by, now active participants, find themselves immersed in a dialogue with these imposing volumes, which symbolize an er... More

Songhyeon Green Plaza / Songhyeon Dong, Seoul, KoreaSEOUL BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM In the heart of Seoul, right beside the historic Joseon Dynasty palace, an emblematic space emerges from the ground. The location of Songhyeon Dong carries a rich and varied history, with changing uses and owners over time. The (in)visible pavilion presents contrasting perspectives: reflecting on the outside, while revealing transparency within. It acts as a temporal connector, transcending the boundaries of time for the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Caption Inspired by the site's intricate history, the artists embarked on a quest to discover the relics hidden beneath the soil. During their April 2023 site visit, they un... More

Created by LAAB Architects for the Science in Art exhibition along the Central Harbourfront promenade in Hong Kong, Harbour Cup is an interactive artwork that integrates sports, science, and art in one. DCinematic Otto Ng Harbour Cup is similar to the table soccer game we all know, with some exceptions—there is no goal on either side and there is no definition of teams.  The players need to negotiate and decide how they want to play the game, be it competition, or collaboration. By making the familiar unfamiliar, LAAB Architects creates a situation that invites people to reflect, to communicate, to negotiate. Otto Ng Otto Ng An array of solar-powered LED lights is installed inside the artwork. When the ball... More

“Monolith” is a new large-scale, groundbreaking installation by international artist SpY. The piece explores the present and future of our relation with screens and data using light, sound and context to unprecedented effect. “Monolith” was unveiled in Barcelona as part of Llum BCN Festival 2023, drawing a large stream of visitors and becoming instantly viral. SpY - Ruben P Bescos In “Monolith”, SpY pays homage to Kubrick’s classic film “2001”. The movie portrays the encounter of a group of pre-human apes with a large monolith, incomprehensible at first, but eventually impelling them to use tools and marking the start of human evolution. SpY - Ruben P Bescos SpY’s &ldqu... More

“Orb” draws its inspiration from the historical Egyptian heritage around it. The choice of form and materials in the piece is presented as a direct reference to elements of mathematics and symbolism present in classic Egyptian culture and in the Pyramids in particular. Ruben PBescos The shape of the piece alludes to the ‘pi’ number concealed in the geometry of the Pyramids, found when dividing the perimeter of a Pyramid by twice its height. The sphere is an invisible part of the resulting geometry, since a sphere with a radius as high as the Pyramid would have a circumference very close in length to the Pyramid’s perimeter. Ruben PBescos The surface of the artwork captures the Pyramids, the sky, the... More

Natural grass circle of 70m of diameter installed in the center of Madrid's Plaza Mayor. 400th Anniversary of Madrid's Plaza Mayor. Ruben P Bescos The main idea of this Project is as simple as recognizable. It consists of a 70 meter natural grass circle (3500 square meters in total) located in the center of the Plaza Mayor (Madrid) commemorating its 4th centenary. Ruben P Bescos Given the simplicity of such Project, both locals and tourists were immediately surprised by the decontextualisation of the Plaza and the invitation to new ways to feel pleasantly and comfortably embraced. Ruben P Bescos Over 200 thousand people enjoyed this artistic offer, along the 4 days that it lasted, that was also echoed by the most relevant... More

“REFLECTION” Action and effect of reflecting.  or Action and effect of reflecting or being reflected. “Reflection” comes from Latin. reflexus 'action of moving back', ‘withdrawal'. but also; Action that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus.    Ruben P Bescos In “REFLECTION”, SpY makes use of such common elements of street furniture as convex traffic mirrors that are used in surveillance and security, to present this hypnotic kinetic sculpture in movement. Ruben P Bescos Made up of 20 convex traffic mirrors, this kinetic sculpture generates a replicated universe that evolves with the different variations of movement and position of the spectators through reflectio... More

A luminous red sphere caged inside a structure In “Tierra”, SpY presents an artistic project made up of a luminous red sphere caged inside a cube-shaped structure, constructed with the type of scaffolding normally used on building sites. These 2 simple geometric elements (sphere and cube) form a large-scale construction which stands almost 25 metres high and has been installed in Plaza de Colón in Madrid. Ruben PBescos This powerful visual statement is accompanied by a bright red light emanating from inside the sphere, from which one can almost feel the heat transmitted by the concept of the work. In this work, SpY asks us to reflect on the way in which our home makes up a whole of which we form part, and in whic... More

Dynamic brick wall by ARCHITIME  The art-object is at intersection of kinetic and parametric architecture and dedicated to the highest feeling on the Earth - LOVE.    Authors: Grigory Malitskiy, Maria Malitskaya, ARCHITIME design group.Artist: Alexey Kio. Location: Russia, Moscow, Orbion transport hub, Skolkovo Date: 2020 About: The dynamic wall dance reveals, like a theatrical curtain, what is hidden in the emotions palette of love. Love kindles hearts and stirs the blood. Flaming hearts are looking for self-expression, finding it in creativity, and, in particular, street art, which has gone a way from vandalism to art, from destruction to creation. Architecture is silent and ready to accept a sensual creative impulse... More

“ Engine is roaring, ship starts to vibrate, and sail swells out in the wind. Ship smoke · curl upwards. Adventure is going to start! ”   Ship Smoke is selected for Harbor City’s Worldwide Public Art design competition. The jury concludes Jean de Loisy, director of the Palais de Tokyo Museum, Andrea Schlieker, director of commissions and special projects at White Cube, independent curator Fang Zhenning, art director Fram Kitagawa, government recommended experts and client’s representatives. Ultimately, 17 out of 500 artworks were officially selected to be made and located on the Shanghai Lujiazui Harbor City street in 2020.   Currently, under the globalization situation, we wish each place... More

Mask Architects developed a proposal for a public artwork to be located in Nuevo Polanco, Mexico City " Hole Zero + Timeless Kinetic Art Sculpture" has been selected one of 5 finalists among  340 international projects and Artist for MassivArt and MIRA  investment and real estate development company in Mexico.  Designed by Öznur Pınar ÇER, Danilo PETTA " Hole Zero + Timeless Kinetic Art Sculpture" is the first spiral interactive movement and rotated lattice loop structure in the world which has filled easily controlled rotatable kinetic art panels by human movements where human are interactive and environmental data according to the location of the structure on the site. Inspired by spacetime curving/bending whic... More

Penda China’s New Work “Life Island”: A Dream Mansion between Mountain and Sea The isolation to curb the COVID-19 epidemic has confined us quietly at home for quite some time, allowing us to rethink the relationship between life, living space and nature. Here we present a design proposal for a residential development which may hopefully trigger off some new ideas about our future home.   Life Island is located in Shenzhen,overlooking Hong Kong across the sea. As a major gateway adjacent to Shenzhen Bay Bridge and the cruise homeport anda key node on the urban development axis of Shenzhen, it represents unlimited potential for future development.  The site backs onto few Mountains, enjoying an unblocked view o... More

Along the banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River, five decommissioned aviation fuel tanks once stood abandoned on an empty industrial site. Today, these tanks and the surrounding site—forgotten relics of the city's former Longhua Airport—have been given new life and relevancy by OPEN Architecture. Over the course of six years, the five tanks were converted from waste containers to a vibrant contemporary art center, with galleries and other public spaces housed within the tanks themselves. One of the world’s rare examples of the adaptive re-use of aviation fuel tanks, Tank Shanghai has attracted millions of visitors since its opening in March 2019 and has solidified its place in the city’s contemporary art scene.  ... More