Cast & Place: City of Dreams Pavilion
A project in New York, NY by Josh, Lisa, Powell, Ted, and Max000days
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300,000 aluminum cans, recycled and cast into cracked clay, form a pavilion for an arts festival on NYC's Governors Island this summer.
Backers: 261
Average Pledge Per Backer: $120
Funded: $31,449 of $30,000
Dates: Feb 27th -> Mar 27th (29 days)
Project By: Josh, Lisa, Powell, Ted, and Max
Backers: 261
Average Pledge Per Backer: $120
Funded: $31,449 of $30,000
Dates: Feb 27th -> Mar 27th (29 days)
Project By: Josh, Lisa, Powell, Ted, and Max
$31,449
current pledge level
Last Updated: March 28 @ 00:01 -0400 GMT
104%
of goal
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Latest News
So close we can taste it. 
March 27th - via: kickstarter.com
It was a nail biter, but late last night we surged over the $30,000 mark. And we’re not stopping! We still have 13 hours to get as much support as possible. Any extra money will just make the pavilion better. Please keep pushing with us: tell... (Read More)
Prototype pours at "Artists in Action"
March 26th - via: kickstarter.com
URGENT: As I am about to publish this update, we are at $29,346! That's only $654 to go. If everyone adds $5 to their pledge we make it. If you find a friend to make a small pledge we make it. We're so close! Let's do this. - Josh... (Read More)
Come see a prototype casting!
March 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Clear your calendars! We’re doing a prototype pour this Saturday (the 25th) for Artists in Action at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ and we want you to come watch. Artists in Action is an annual event where artists invite the public to... (Read More)
Can't get enough of the C&P rewards?
March 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Backers, you guys are fantastic. We’re so glad you believe in this project as much as we do. We want to make sure you guys know that you can get more than one of our fantastic rewards. Just pledge the combined total of all the rewards you want... (Read More)
Crack formation timelapse
March 20th - via: kickstarter.com
We never thought we'd be so happy to see mud dry. But this new timelapse video of crack formation in our glacial clay is pretty cool. The timelapse was taken at photo every 60 second. The original video was 2:11 at 29 fps. That's a total of about 63... (Read More)
Crackology!
March 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Cracked clay is usually bad! Perhaps your river bed has gone dry or you have to start over on your piece of pottery. For our Cast & Place pavilion we use this typically undesirable feature of clay to our advantage. We lay out clay to dry and... (Read More)
We cast a 20” x 40” prototype panel!
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Before producing the 20” x 10’ panels that will make up our pavilion, we are testing our clay drying and aluminum casting process on a series of 20” x 40” prototypes. For the first prototype we built a tray out of recycled steel tubes and... (Read More)
2017 City of Dreams winner to make pavilion from 300,000 cans
March 8th - via: archpaper.com
The 2017 City of Dreams Pavilion is waiting for approval from the city and for funding (via a Kickstarter campaign and sponsorships). (Read More)
We got Glacial Clay from Queens!
March 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
When we started the "City of Dreams" pavilion project, we had the ambition to get clay-rich dredge and fill to make the cracked pattern molds for our aluminum panels. We knew it wouldn't be so easy. Where, when and how would we get it? Would it be... (Read More)
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