He designed a number of buildings in Zurich, including the Oerlikon stadium, and in 1952 built the Swiss pavilion for the Venice Biennale.
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Bruno Giacometti dies aged 105
Swiss architect Bruno Giacometti, the younger brother of sculptor Alberto Giacometti, died on Wednesday at age 105, the Zurich art museum, of which he was a patron, announced.
Published: 22 March 2012 09:13 CET
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Art project shows the scope of Switzerland’s extraordinary glacier loss
An art project has shed light on the sheer scope of Switzerland’s glacier loss in recent years due to climate change.
Published: 13 July 2020 12:54 CEST
Photo: Studio Oefner/ETH Zurich
The project looks to “visualise 140 years of glacial retreat through an interactive network”.
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The project is led by Swiss artist Fabian Oefner, who has reproduced the receding glaciers using neon lines which contrast with images of the glaciers as they currently stand.
In a collaboration with with Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Google mapped the shrinking glaciers over time.
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“Im interested in the concept of time and how change shapes the way we see reality”, Oefner says.
Using drones equipped with LEDs, Oefner used real representations of glacial loss as the frame for the project.
“I looked at maps where you could see the glacier in its current state and dozens of lines drawn on the map in front of it. Each of these lines represented where the glacier was in the past few decades,” Oefner said.
“I wanted to find a way to transport the scientific data and bring it into reality”.
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