Art June 3, 2014

Famous Architecture Gets Minecraft-Like Twist in Animations by Axel de Stampa

Each animated GIF in this project takes a famous building and gives it a unique twist — sometimes literally. Architecture Animée (Animated Architecture), by French architect Axel de Stampa, shows these buildings in movement. They are added to, disassembled and reassembled, slided, or rotated. Some of the animations are inspired by video games, particularly one in which Tetris-like blocks fall from the sky, though I also see the influence of building games like Minecraft and Lego in the entire series. We discovered these fascinating images via Whudat.

Zollverein School

VitraHaus

Theatre Agora

New Museum

Mirador Building

Memory Museum

Emerson College Los Angeles

Americas Cup Building

Absolute Towers

Tom McMeekin

Tom is a writer, artist, and multi-media guru from Pennsylvania, U.S. He holds a Master's in Journalism and Mass Communication, but he has also taken several university-level courses in fine arts, art appreciation, graphic design, printmaking, and Asian art. He has been blogging for Monde Mosaic since February 2014.