Alex Chinneck – a floating building in London's Covent Garden

Take My Lighting But Don't Steal My Thunder is a monumental architectural illusion that attracted the attention of passers-by in the square during October Covent Garden Piazza. The project is a combination of everything: art, architecture, magic, theater and engineering.

Floating building it's work more than 100 employees artist and designer Alex Chinneck, who made a floating copy of the 184-year-old Market Building made of lightweight styrofoam. The Briton intervened in the public space incredibly effectively, as he completely integrated the artistic illusion into the urban environment. 10 meters high and 12 meters wide floating building is like that elegantly infiltrated into the appearance of a famous London square, and passers-by can walk freely under the floating building (of course, everyone is excited, because the architectural construction it does not reveal a single buttress, which could make the building float in the air).

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Installation name Take My Lightning But Don't Steal My Thunder is an allusion to the cracks in ancient architectures that resemble lightning. Since the artist likes to use native phrases for the names of his work, he incorporated an English phrase into the title "to steal someone's thunder", which could be translated into Slovenian as "to steal someone's glory".

Alex Chinneck talks about his project in the short video below:

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