For Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa, founders of design studio Hou de Sousa, city thoroughfares and public squares are a clean canvas. The award-winning, New York-based staff focuses on architectural installations and large-scale sculptures that invite guests to expertise their environment in new methods.
Usually using vibrant shade and glowing lighting results to be loved day or evening, items like “Bubble” and “Star Light Star Bright” invite passersby to wander by way of and round undulating surfaces. Lots of the agency’s concepts revolve across the concept of the pavilion—an inviting out of doors assembly place for the neighborhood.
“Star Light Star Bright,” for instance, was put in earlier this yr on Broadway in New York Metropolis, “inspired by the cross-cultural tradition of wish trees, (inviting) visitors to tie ribbons representing their hopes and desires,” Hou and de Sousa say in a press release. As ribbon-like wristbands had been added, the pavilion advanced because it donned “a fluffy, fluorescent winter coat,” highlighting interconnectedness and the universality of hope.
Within the Flatiron District in Manhattan, Hou de Sousa additionally lately put in a bit referred to as “Tulips,” which reimagine lamp posts as big flowers blossoming towards the sky.
In the event you’re within the Sarasota, Florida, space this winter, preserve an eye fixed out for the studio’s subsequent set up, an 8,000-pound metal sculpture titled “Poly.” Dive into extra initiatives on the studio’s web site and Instagram.
