I was googling E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology when I came across this collaboration for the Expo ’70 Pepsi Pavilion in Osaka, Japan. The outside of the building was covered by a water vapour cloud sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya. The dome shaped objects in the foreground are six-foot high moving sculptures by Robert Breer, they travel at less than 2 feet per minute and emit sound.
The interior skin of the building consists of a giant Mylar bubble, producing a spherical mirror effect. The bubble was inflated by a slight vacuum created between the Mylar skin and the buildings outer structure. Follow the link, click on the image thumbnails, be amazed.
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Pretty much the most awesome thing i have ever seen.
R.e Nakaya, Diller and Scofidio got him in as a consultant for their Blur building which is also foggy. I also just discovered he did a fog installation at the NGA in 1977. Misty radness.