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Wim Delvoye touches up building equipment with a Gothic spin | News | Archinect

If our recently published article featuring a computer mouse/Eames chair mashup didn't provoke you, this one might just do the trick. With his series of heavy utility trucks outfitted in Gothic ornament, artist Wim Delvoye conceived of a mashup of two elements nearly a full millennium apart.

The series likely came about given a genuine similarity between modern automobiles and Gothic cathedrals; unquestionably, both are marvels of human engineering and craftsmanship; one pursued for the appeasement of a higher being, the other for the satisfaction of a consumptive economy.  Corten Steel Sheet 3mm

Wim Delvoye touches up building equipment with a Gothic spin | News | Archinect

I read this as “William Defoe touches up....” long day I guess 

Anyone not familiar with Delvoye should look up his Cloaca series. 

This is the kind of person we need in architecture.  

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