For the 2014 FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island, Inhabitat reports that the City of Dreams Pavilion, a visitors lounge, will be made of thousands of discarded cups collected all over New York City. Dubbed “Governor’s Cup,” the pavilion is designed by CDR Studio and inspired by tape-lace crochet. The structure will be connected by cables to nearby trees but will move and make a “soothing” sound with the wind.
Read more about the FIGMENT, a free interactive arts festival on Governors Island that we called an “all-ages sensory feast,” at its launch in 2012. Read more about “Governor’s Cup” on Inhabitat.
Michelle is the founder of Untapped New York and the author of The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, Secret Brooklyn, Secret New York, and Broadway. michelleyoungwriter.com
