Day 4659: Rippling London Townhouse Facade & A Single Indian Great Banyan & TBT..

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A Rippling London Townhouse Facade

by Alex Chinneck

Photos by Charles Emerson

“A week at the knees” playfully anthropomorphizes a classic Georgian facade, with its lower two levels rippling over a pathway as if seated in the park with its knees up. London is famous for its green squares and gardens, and Chinneck’s work invites visitors to pass through a unique portal that calls upon the history of its surroundings, complete with downspout and lamps flanking the arched front door.

Chinneck fabricated the sculpture in collaboration with numerous British companies to source and create bespoke steel beams, curving windows, and bricks. At five meters tall and weighing 12 tons, the piece mimics a life-size building while sporting a thickness of only 15 centimeters.

 The effect lends itself to the experience of a hefty, architectonic structure with a graceful, lightweight personality. -1 minute video here.

              

  Explore more on Chinneck’s website and Instagram.

This is a single tree, known as the Great Banyan tree. It has a canopy diameter of over 400 feet making it one of the widest trees in the world. The tree’s crown covers an area over 4 acres (1.65 hectares) and is made up of hundreds of trunks. Although its exact age is unknown, references date back more than 250 years. In the 1900s, massive storms hit the tree, which led to a decline of its main trunk, which once measured over 50 feet wide. Yet, as the sign at the tree states: “Interestingly enough, the tree now lives in perfect vigor without its main trunk.”

Thanks fellow "tree hugger", Rad Nana!

Demura Sensei's 1986 Kangieko

Huntington Beach, CA

We survived. Kevin Suzuki & me.

  

 

A 4+  minute video, Good education , here

 

  

  

 

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Blond-crested Woodpecker 

 

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