Tens of thousands of yards of fabric temporarily obscured the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a posthumous “Large-scale artworks in the landscape—that’s what I’ve been interested installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in for the past 20 years”
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technicians, fabricators, and riggers led by Steve Messam
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1. Part of the year-long process of sketches and mock-ups for Bridged, a temporary installation by British artist Steve Messam that ran above the River Skell at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Park in North Yorkshire, U.K., included this CAD rendering. 2. Inspired by the concept of an archit ectural folly, even though the work func tioned as a bridge, Messam had hundreds of yards of fire-coated scarlet polyester cut and sewn into a spiked skin that was testfit over its corresponding weight-bearing structure at Stage One, the engineering firm that fabricated the structure’s steel elements. 3. Technicians on-site at the river worked with a forklift to fit the skin
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A contemporary bridge by Steve Messam enlivened an 18th-century National Trust Heritage Site in northern England
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over the structure. 4. After the bridge was pieced together, it was crane-lifted and swung 90 degrees onto steel grill footings on each side of the river. 5. Polypropylene rope and elastic shock cord laced into 244 brass eyelets on the skin’s underside helped the installation withstand strong rains and wind gusts.
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