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details: leather-wrapped handrail at Finlandia Hall (Alvar Aalto)

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SKYBOX – the closest you’ll get to the sky when living on the prairies.

The Forks’ market in Winnipeg, home to the world’s longest naturally frozen skating trail annually hosts an open international competition to design riverside shelters which “push the envelope of design, craft, and art”. Despite the coldest winter on record, Winnipeg’s skating trail is experienced by over 300,000 visitors over the frigid season.

Harnessing Winnipeg’s trademark winter weather, SKYBOX creates a visual immersion of people against an ephemeral backdrop – the sky. A large reflective plane with attached seating opposes a vertical mirror, allowing visitors to use their camera to take a “selfie” of themselves appearing to sit among the clouds.

By uploading images with the tagline #SKYBOXWPG, the community can interact and engage with the Forks' skating trail. At the end of the winter season, visitors’ experiences will live on through a collected online mosaic of completely unique pictures on skyboxwpg.ca.

Check out SKYBOX on Facebook!

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Check out mine and two classmates winning competition entry as we actually get to build it this week!

Follow our progress on our project's facebook page!

#winnipeg #architecture #warming huts #skating trail #red river #manitoba #canada #design #uofm #winterpeg #skybox #skyboxwpg

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Los Angeles-based video, photography and sculptural/installation artist Cayetano Ferrer has re-interpreted the discipline of graffiti through his artistic interrogation of urban objects. Through his projects “city of chicago” and “western imports” he camouflages street signs and ordinary cardboard boxes to mimic the surrounding scenery – rendering them “invisible street art”. Ferrer creates the work by pasting high-quality photographs reflecting the relevant environment printed onto stickers and fixing them to various urban debris around the city. By photographing these pieces in situ, the resulting images articulate an illusion of transparency, prompting the viewer to look twice.