We are Surrounded Less and Less by Nature and More and More by Buildings
Poster
1989 (published)
1989 (published)
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Poster with an image of a floating leaf imprisoned between high-rise buildings
Object details
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| Title | We are Surrounded Less and Less by Nature and More and More by Buildings (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithography |
| Brief description | Environment poster published by the Soviet state publishing house Plakat |
| Physical description | Poster with an image of a floating leaf imprisoned between high-rise buildings |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Gallery label | The race ever-upward
The ability to build skywards redefined urban architecture in the 20th century. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a major architecture firm with some of the world’s tallest buildings to its name, including the 423-metre-tall Chicago skyscraper built for the Trump Organization. In 2013, engineering company KONE developed a carbon fibre rope enabling lifts to travel uninterrupted for 1000 metres, doubling what was previously attainable. Although the new material innovation makes the next generation of super-tall towers possible, careful design consideration needs to be given to the urban enivronment they create, as seen here in the Russian poster.
Model for 98-storey building
Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, 2001
Designed by Adrian Smith for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, USA
Stacked acrylic
Given by Adrian Smith
Museum no. CD.25-2017
Carbon fibre rope
UltraRope, 2014
Designed and manufactured by KONE, Finland
Polymer-coated carbon fibre
Given by KONE Corporation
Museum no. CD.25:1 to 4-2014
Russian poster calling out changes to the urban environment
‘We are Surrounded Less and Less by Nature and More and More by Buildings’ (translated title), 1989
Designed by J. Zlatopolsky
Issued by Plakat, Russia
Colour offset lithography on paper
Museum no. E.2053-1991
The object sits in the 'Housing and Living' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.(2021) |
| Historical context | One of a number of posters published by the Soviet state publishing house "Plakat" on the theme of the environment in the late 1980s and early 1990s. |
| Production | Attribution note: Published in a print run of 18,000 |
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| Accession number | E.2053-1991 |
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| Record created | March 4, 2009 |
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