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
Published by Michael May 28th, 2008 in Living Room
Tags: carpet, Living Room, lounge, Outdoor space, Switzerland, travel
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16 Responses to “The Largest Public Living-room : City Lounge”
- 1 Pingback on May 30th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
DUDEE WTF BOOYA I WANT ONE haha, great thing, love it, nice one ^^
WAyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy cool!
Wow. All that is really carpet?
thats quite a photograph
wow, what happens when it rains? XP
this is AWESOME!!!!!
How come America can’t come up with something this kickass?!?!?!
Im moving to Switzerland!!
haha ^.^
LOLOLL PHOTOSHOPPED.
No just kidding.
This is ridiculously cool. This I’d like to see for myself.
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
One word: AMAZING!
Fake
this is photoshopped
i dont believe it
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.
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.
No kidding. It’s Installation Art, people! And this is in Europe, where creative exploration is
not only allowed, but encouraged. Great piece.
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.