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With the Architectural Essays all spread out, it's time to recollect them and put them together in a small catalogue for the screen, or, if you want to, for printing.
The print-edition catalogue with all 14 works is available as a PDF-file now and here --
Also, please note that selected works are available as limited-edition, high-quality, signed and numbered, prints.
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Chicago Crownhall, interior window --
Number #14 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Black and pink, translucent vinyl (#14). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Chicago Crownhall, facade --
Number #13 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White, transparent vinyl (#13). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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New York Seagram Building, facade --
Number #12 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White, black, and pink opaque vinyl (#12). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Chicago IBM Building, facade --
Number #11 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White opaque vinyl (#11). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Berlin Nationalgalerie, window front --
Number #10 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White translucent vinyl (#10). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Toronto Dominion Centre, facade --
Number #8 in the Mies Series.
Number #9 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White translucent vinyl (#8), white and black translucent vinyl (#9). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Horreur! Graffiti! on the German Pavillon in Barcelona --
Number #3 in the Mies Series.
Number #4 in the Mies Series.
Number #5 in the Mies Series.
Number #6 in the Mies Series.
Number #7 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Digital print on white vinyl (#3), black-matte opaque vinyl (#4 - #7). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Chicago Lake Shore Drive Apartments --
Number #1 in the Mies Series.
Number #2 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Silver-matte translucent vinyl (#1), black-matte opaque vinyl (#2). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
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Introducing Lyrois' architectural essays, conversations between architecture and art --
The vision: Lyrois shapes in public spaces. (Backstory)
The plan: Using our beloved glass, steel, and concrete as the perfect canvas to create a dialogue between static architecture and dynamic art.
Looking for and at glass, steel, and concrete; there is one artist -- architect -- who provides iconic, clean, and clear structures and patterns to pick up and play with: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Granite or concrete?
Mies planned to use granite for an element of the entrance for the IIT. The president of the Institute suggested using less expensive concrete stating that the granite was barely visible anyway. Mies retorted: Concrete instead of granite you would see and asked the president to raise more money instead -- eventually he built with granite.(Related by Swiss architect Otto Kolb)
The inspiration: Linear divisions, spatial proportions, as well as details like huge pieces of marble cut in symmetrical patterns.
Like graffiti, the public landscape is the canvas to work on.
Unlike graffiti, the Lyrois pieces pick up the pattern of the underlying architecture and highlight both canvas and artwork.
The print-edition catalogue with all 14 works is available either as a PDF-file or in actual, real paper.
Selected works are available as limited-edition, high-quality prints.
Artwork may be ordered as-is or privately commissioned and custom-tailored to your environmental structure, color-scale, and local setting.
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An appetizer for stuff to come --
Lyrois' architectural essays, conversations between architecture and art.
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