{"id":3507,"date":"2016-02-06T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T23:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2016-02-06T23:37:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T23:37:49","slug":"babel-tower-a-kinetic-mirrored-ziggurat-reflects-the-surrounding-iranian-landscape-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/babel-tower-a-kinetic-mirrored-ziggurat-reflects-the-surrounding-iranian-landscape-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Babel Tower: A Kinetic Mirrored Ziggurat Reflects the Surrounding Iranian Landscape | Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/01\/babel-tower\/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=webfeeds\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mirror-1.gif?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Very cool, although I think it could be made even better with freer and more organic movement. -egg]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirinabedinirad.com\/#\/babel-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">Babel Tower<\/a> is the latest artwork by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirinabedinirad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shirin Abedinirad<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/?s=shirin\">previously<\/a>) who has become known for her outdoor mirror installations designed to reflect landscapes and elements of architecture. This newest piece, a collaboration with interaction designer <a href=\"http:\/\/gugotorelli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gugo Torelli<\/a>, adds a kinetic component to a stair-stepped ziggurat that simultaneously reflects elements of the sky, horizon, and ground while slowly rotating 360 degrees. She shares about the piece:<\/p>\n<p>Babel Tower is an interactive installation that recontextualizes the spiritual architecture of the Babel Tower with modern materials, creating a union between ancient history and our present world; it is combing the past, present and offering a union for future. The top view of installation by reflecting the sky is connecting it to the earth, symbolizing the aim of Babel tower to reach for the heaven; The structural use of mirrors, serve as a reflective vessel for light, an integral feature of paradise.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more views of the sculpture on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirinabedinirad.com\/#\/babel-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, and watch a video of the piece in motion down below. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Submissions<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/01\/babel-tower\/\">Babel Tower: A Kinetic Mirrored Ziggurat Reflects the Surrounding Iranian Landscape | Colossal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Very cool, although I think it could be made even better with freer and more organic movement. -egg] &nbsp; Babel Tower is the latest artwork by Shirin Abedinirad (previously) who has become known for her outdoor mirror installations designed to reflect landscapes and elements of architecture. This newest piece, a collaboration with interaction designer Gugo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}