Look of the Games: Civic Olympic Art & Decorations

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by shaners

seen that too on ctv, but it's burrard and cambie bridges. those will apparently be the two most seen bridges by media for the games.

global said it was Granville and Cambie and they showed shots of granville and cambie bridges no mention of burrard in their report

i don't watch CTV that woman's hair scares me

[SpongeG]

Night lights to give 2010 Olympics a carnival atmosphere


You can expect a lot more Olympic-themed illumination in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Photograph by: Andy Clark, Reuters

Vancouver will take on a round-the-clock, carnival atmosphere during the 2010 Olympics, thanks to a $1.1-million lights and banner program.

Another $1 million will be spent to provide street lighting on a pedestrian route through Yaletown linking live sites on Georgia Street and at David Lam Park, said Peter Judd, the city’s manager of Olympic operations.

“I think the atmosphere will be a lot like Expo 86, in the downtown particularly,” Judd said Thursday. “There’s an extensive banner program and, at night, the biggest bang for your buck is lighting.”

A “light the city” program, costing $486,450, includes, permanent, programmable, colour-changing LED lights at Library Square, site of the city’s $600,000 Vancouver House. Similar lighting will also be put on the Cambie Bridge and on Granville Street Bridge’s “intricate support beams.”

As well, according to Judd’s report to city council this week, the curved facade at 111 Dunsmuir “will be transformed into a dynamic, interactive ‘pixel map’ of a scale never before seen in Vancouver.” The south-facing windows of the building will be lit from the inside in Olympic colours “individually controlled to create patterns, movement and even hockey scores.”

The banner program costs $650,000 and includes more than 6,000 banners and brackets. Funding comes from a $20-million Olympic Legacy Reserve Fund.

Judd said he expects a carnival atmosphere downtown.

“Anyone I know who went to Torino said you could hardly move downtown and the restaurants were jam-packed,” he added.

The city will regulate building wraps which will be put up by sponsors on downtown buildings and by Vancouver 2010 at Olympic venues, he said. In order to put up building wraps, sponsors will need to have “a presence” in the building and the signs have to be “celebratory” and have no more than 10-per-cent commercial content, said Judd.

E-mail reporter Damian Inwood at [email protected]

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010w...s+carnival+atmosphere/1617565/story.html

[Spork]

First of all, props to me for finding the right thread for this. Now, on to the goods...

At the request of the City of Surrey, the top floors of the Central City Tower, including floors 14 and 15, will be partially wrapped with Olympic-themed graphics to coincide with the 17-day 2010 Olympic Celebration site at Holland Park. The goal, according to the City, is to create a visual iconic focal point in the city centre that conveys the core essence of the City's 2010 community plan and brings attention to business and investment opportunities.

Installation of the wrap will begin later this month. The wrap will be removed immediately after the Olympics and Paralympic Games in February 2010. Blackwood Partners, which manage Central City, have assured us that the material used will not block views from the windows affected and will only provide a minor tint.

Conceptual graphics for the three "wraps" are attached. Please note that these have not been finalized and the actual graphics may differ from the attached concepts.

[Canadian Mind]

First one for sure. other two are shit... Especially last one, which is a shame considerig message it is trying to convey.

[Spork]

I agree. The second one isn't THAT bad, but all three could match a bit better for sure.

[mr.x]

The second one I can let it go, but who on earth designed the third one???


I love the first one.

[ckkelley]

So we now have less than a month to go before we start seeing the 2010 building wraps.

Has anyone heard anything about this? What gives? I would have thought we would have had a pretty good idea by now regarding which buildings and what image they may have.

[wrenegade]

I don't really care about building wraps. When do we start seeing lighting features?

[ckkelley]

Originally Posted by awvan

I don't really care about building wraps. When do we start seeing lighting features?

Good question. Those lighting features will be cool.

You don't care about building wraps? No?

[wrenegade]

Originally Posted by ckkelley

You don't care about building wraps? No?

meh. lights are way cooler.

[officedweller]

Final selections....

City picks six artists to create public artworks for the Games

By Kevin Griffin, Vancouver SunSeptember 25, 2009

Vancouver artist Rodney Graham leads a roster of six Canadian and international artists chosen to create major new public artworks for the city's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program.

Details of the commissions were announced in a news release Thursday by Mayor Gregor Robertson. They're all destined for high-profile public sites around Vancouver.

Graham will be creating a sculptural installation for a site by the Georgia Street entrance to Stanley Park. The work will play with the idea of flight, both in reference to the seaplanes nearby as well as the toy model planes used by children and adults in the park.

At city hall, Berlin-based artist Gunda Förster's light-based work will appear as a skim of shimmering ice gracing the edges of the building. Förster's work, which uses LED lights, will have the added benefit of reducing the energy consumption of city hall's external architectural lighting.

Light will also be a theme of Paris-based artist Tania Ruiz Gutiérrez's sculptural work under the Cambie Street Bridge at West Second Avenue. Taking its inspiration from the abstract geometric patterns in weaving, the work will include a special heat camera to capture and record the movement of passers-by.

Vancouver artist Christian Kliegel has been chosen to create an open-air architectural installation for the Central Library's north plaza on West Georgia. His architectural-inspired structure will serve as an open-air theatre for a program of still and moving images and performances by local artists curated by Cate Rimmer, curator for the Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University.

Canadian artists Adrian Göllner and Pierre Poussin have developed an artistic lighting scheme using LED technology for the Cambie/Hamilton Street corridor. The decorative street lighting on lampposts will connect the city's two Olympic Live Sites.

All the pieces are permanent installations except for the Central Library project, which will be mounted for one year. Installations will be complete by the beginning of 2010. The artists and projects were selected by three independent juries from 300 submissions.

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© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

[Yume-sama]

Sounds cool!

[raggedy13]

City Hall will be permanently "icy" at night? Interesting...

[deasine]

I really wonder what that would look like...

[gillty]

Originally Posted by deasine

I really wonder what that would look like...

somehow this is what i imagine

okay maybe not... please.

[Yume-sama]

Originally Posted by tGill

somehow this is what i imagine

okay maybe not... please.

Half the people in my neighborhood in Calgary still have those, their Christmas lights, up! Of course, now they are just looking like they are up early.

It would be wonderfully tacky if that was our "permanent display"

[Vancity]

Let's hope not.

[Smooth]

I was hoping they'd go for an updated version of "highway 86" as one of the public art pieces.

[nova9]

I have a question about process...

What's the procedure for buildings to get a building wrap? I assume all buildings that are involved will have olympic banners. but what's the protocol for VANOC to ask other buildings to show some spirit - do they pay the building, can buildings request, etc.

[officedweller]

From Metro - the rendering of the Post Office looks butt-ugly:

Postcards to spread Olympic cheer
kristen thompson
30 September 2009 05:11

kristen thompson/metro vancouver

Canadian long track speedskater Justin Warsylewicz gives Olympic mascot Quatchi a skating lesson at Canada Post’s main Vancouver branch yesterday during a campaign kickoff to cheer on 2010 athletes.

Speedskater and Olympic hopeful Brittany Schussler says she has been trained to win under any circumstances, but receiving words of support from her community gives her a boost.

“Knowing that people are cheering for us and want us to do well, it makes the hard days a little bit easier,” Schlusser said yesterday.

Schlusser was at Canada Post’s main Vancouver branch to kick off a new national campaign that lets Canadians send personal messages of encouragement to our Olympic athletes.

The initiative lets people cut out postcards printed on the back of Cheerios cereal boxes, write a note of encouragement, and send the message to Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic teams.

Eventually, the postcards will be displayed on a Cheer Wall at the post office at Georgia and Homer streets.

“It’s huge to have all that emotional support from Canadians,” said skier and Whistler native Ashleigh McIvor.

Mary Traversy, with Canada Post, said the campaign provides “unequivocal support to all athletes competing in the 2010 Winter Games.”

“It’s truly beautiful to see such a simple idea ... send such a powerful message,” she said.

With files from Stig Nielsen