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The Largest Public Living-room : City Lounge

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On Freshome I focus mostly on things for homes, but today I’ve found an interesting project that I can say is the largest public living-room, and a great place to visit if you are in Switzerland. City Lounge is an outdoor space in the center of St. Gallen, Switzerland, that has been designed by Carlos Martinez in collaboration with Pipilotti Rist and it was the winning entry at a design competition announced by the Schweizer Verbandes der Raiffeisenbanken (SVRB) and the city of St. Gallen. The project features a bright red surfacing that appears to have swept in like the tide, covering everything in its path. At night, the streets are illuminated by blimp-shaped objects that hang from cables strung between the district’s modern office buildings. Photos by : Thomas Mayer – Via

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Published by Michael 28 May 2008 in Living Room

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17 comments:

  1. Cheyenne says:
    January 18, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Wow. Amazing. This is what I call art. Nice red. :)

    P.S. Nice comment reba! And please stop staying fake this is real.

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  2. reba says:
    June 14, 2008 at 1:10 am

    Very cool.
    sorry some of our inbreds have apparently broken into an internet-access facility.
    you see, they have this complex where they can only say “fake” and
    “photoshopped” because they can’t wrap their heads around the concept of
    art, excuse them.

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  3. michelle says:
    June 7, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    No kidding. It’s Installation Art, people! And this is in Europe, where creative exploration is
    not only allowed, but encouraged. Great piece.

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  4. HometownZero says:
    June 6, 2008 at 12:27 am

    You guys are idiots. This is real, but it must be temporary.
    What I would give to have something like that in the Mini-appel.

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  5. Ann Hanks says:
    June 5, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    This is the worest idea I have ever heard of. What about dirt, and the oil from vehicles? What is to keep weed seeds, and grass from growing in it? And then there is moss, and mildew to think about. Anything that would stop that would be equally toxic to people. Not tomention where could anyone sit after it rained without gettiing a wet butt? Skeptic in Tacoma.

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  6. Sumit says:
    June 3, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    i dont believe it

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  7. ChainSmirker says:
    June 1, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Fake

    this is photoshopped

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  8. City Lounge, las sala de estar más grande del mundo says:
    May 30, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    [...] Vía | FreshHome [...]

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  9. Fabio Scala says:
    May 29, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    One word: AMAZING!

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  10. dexie says:
    May 28, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    i bet the reason we don’t have that in America is because within two seconds of opening it will be littered with McDonalds bags and other trash and nobody will want to clean it up; we’re too lazy

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  11. Kendra says:
    May 28, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    LOLOLL PHOTOSHOPPED.

    No just kidding.
    This is ridiculously cool. This I’d like to see for myself.

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  12. mousiesqueakz4u says:
    May 28, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    this is AWESOME!!!!!
    How come America can’t come up with something this kickass?!?!?!
    Im moving to Switzerland!!
    haha ^.^

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  13. FireSpell says:
    May 28, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    wow, what happens when it rains? XP

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  14. ggn says:
    May 28, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    thats quite a photograph

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  15. Marisa says:
    May 28, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    Wow. All that is really carpet?

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  16. hipmonkey says:
    May 28, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    WAyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy cool!

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  17. SephirothWhoop says:
    May 28, 2008 at 11:40 am

    DUDEE WTF BOOYA I WANT ONE haha, great thing, love it, nice one ^^

    Reply

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