The Solar Trees of Vienna: a Lovegrove, if you will

Behold the Solar Trees of Vienna, set to be unveiled in front of the MAK Museum on October 8th. It's just the latest from Ross Lovegrove who's already graced our pages with his Muon speaker and System X lighting system. Developed in coordination with Italian lighting Co. Artemide and solar cell Co. Sharp Solar, the installation could help wash away the godless hellscape of urban decay in the sweet bouquet of luminescent Lilies. Or not, depending upon its practical application. So if anyone happens to be in the area during the unveiling at 20.30 local time, by all means, send us some pictures and your thoughts -- Detroit awaits your response.

[Via Inhabitat]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 6:20AM]

We have something very similar here in Auckland, NZ at the entrance to the Southern/Western motorways. The Solar Trees look a gazillion times more tasteful however.

Art: Sometimes it's good, sometimes it goes horribly wrong.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 9:18AM]

That last line, it stole the words right out of my mouth. Err, out of my fingertips.

I just hope the pigeons don't get too fond of these.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 10:16AM]

i live around the corner. so if i don't forget i'll send a picture next week.

cheers from vienna
jw

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 10:28AM]

The pigeons will finish decorating the rest of the master piece.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 11:01AM]

I was wondering when aluminum trees would start replacing real trees. I wonder if I can carve in useless messages like "Jeremy was here".

[Kizul Emeraldfire Posted Oct 5th 2007 9:26AM]

Even better: in the middle of the night, when nobody's looking, carve the words "KILROY WAS HERE", complete with the weird-looking doodle that always appears next to it. :D

--ºººº-’º()º‘-ºººº-- KILROY WAS HERE

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 4:26PM]

Why do I think that real trees would be so much more attractive. Silly me.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2007 2:26PM]

Hi, here you can see how it looked today :-)
http://www.kultur-channel.at/Pics/Mak.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2007 4:07PM]

On the promo pics it looked way better then in reality.
Not from the opening, but a night after it: http://picasaweb.google.hu/csite.laszlo/MAKDesignNITE

As the germans would say: "peinlich" :(