In one of the courtyards of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, is a swimming pool framed by a limestone deck. When seen from the deck, the pool appears to be filled with deep, shimmering water. In fact, however, a layer of water only some 10 centimeters deep is suspended over transparent glass. Below the glass is an empty space with aquamarine walls that viewers can enter.
The Swimming Pool was designed by Buenos Aires artist Leandro Erlich in 2004.
39 comments:
How, exactly, did they "suspend" the water over transparent glass??
The glass is just wavy.....
Stupid question, no offense. They have glass covering the top. They pour water on the glass. The end.
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then the water isn't suspended over the glass, it's on the glass itself
Awesome!!!!
@May 20, 2010 10:28 PM
...do you have some sort of mental handicap?
where do they get air?
How many have been hurt diving in to save someone?
what if you went to dive in you would be fu**ed
Woah, that's pretty trippy.
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its photoshopped i can tell by the pixelz
You're retarded i can tell by th kommente.
Tool, it's real, nothing has been photoshoppe, it's not fake. Douche.
epic lulz in tehse comments
The water is suspended on special glass that has been cleaned with water repellent glass cleaner like on those shopping channeles.
There are some deviant pixels in the images for sure. I am still determining via computer forensic evaluation whether or not it is shopped but my gut instinct is that photo three is shopped because of the pixels.
omfg you are photoshopped retards, i can tell by your pixel size brains..
why do you fun size brained dorks think everything is fake? it's a real invention even tho its stupid.... it's like a stove in which you can't cook or a car you can't drive.
photo 3 is a different pool entirely...
I love it when people get mad over the "photoshop" comments. It's full of lulz.
You know how I know it's been shopped? The pictures were originally higher res.
For those unaware of what a joke is:
http://mrw.blox.pl/resource/500pxShopped.jpg
It's an old Internet meme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme)
That is so cool. :)
wow very cool! looks awesome
Great job and good ideas some one use them at home and hotels....
What is the point of a fake swimming pool??? Why not just have a real one?
totally want a house with a room like that and a rooftop patio. maybe one day.., oh and people are STILL doing the photo shop thing? *sigh* guess you'll keep doing it as long as other morons keep falling for it. Rather sad really.....
how do you get out...? and photo 3 is a completely different pool.
This was so cool to see!
This is cool man :)
Its kinda cool but obviously fake
Not Fake...It´s architecture...
http://designyoutrust.com/2009/07/31/21st-century-museum-of-contemporary-art-kanazawa/
just to end this "shopped/ not shopped" war
here's the info for both picture 3, and all the other pictures
for picture 3:
this is the fake pool located at:
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
for all the other pictures:
this is the fake pool located at:
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan here's some links for you dummy's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7gjhHq9d0
http://thecoolgadgets.com/fake-swimming-pool-leandro-erlich/
this links will also answer you other questions about this sh!t
^_^
PEACE OUT!
I thought that they were underwater until I read the article. I wondered why they did not look soggy.
some of you guys are so stupid. it's a piece of glass, with water on top. then there is another way to get into it underneath. no photoshop, this is real, i've seen it on the news. god.
you can see the ledge were the glass slips in on the top and the pixles can be caused by many things, like shrinking a high res large photo to fit the web site, or just a crappy effing camera. did you ever think this was taked By a camera phone, i think it is real.
Very clever. thanks for posting this.
swimming swimming, in my swimming pool, when days are hot, when days are cold, in my swimming pool! side stroke, breast stroke fancy diving too, oh don't you wish you never had anything else to do!
*bows*
i like how some of you think the people who say its shopped are actually being serious. They're just trolling you. Haha..stupid people
how doyou get into it??