How architects built those wildly popular floating piers in Italy
How architects built those wildly popular floating piers in Italy
The Floating Piers is the latest and last work of artist duo Christo and Jean-Claude. The floating dock extends over the water of Italy’s Lake Iseo. Here is how they did it. The work consists of a three-kilometer walkway wrapped in 100,000 square meters of yellow cloth, which is supported by a floating dock system composed of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes. These elements naturally undulate with the movement of the waves at Lake Iseo, which … [more]
Source: The Real Deal New York