{"id":105289,"date":"2017-09-22T21:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/liam-hopkins-fills-an-abandoned-building-with-26-000-square-feet-of-cardboard\/"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T16:48:45","slug":"liam-hopkins-fills-an-abandoned-building-with-26-000-square-feet-of-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/liam-hopkins-fills-an-abandoned-building-with-26-000-square-feet-of-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Hopkins Fills an Abandoned Building With 26,000 Square Feet of Cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One designer. 8 printworkers. 26,000 square feet of cardboard. 4,500 cardboard pieces. 15 pods.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Installing <\/span>Chromatogram<\/em>, <\/span>part of the U.K.’s National Festival of Making, Studio Lazerian<\/a> principal Liam Hopkins<\/a> removed clamps after gluing precision-cut sections of custom-colored cardboard together. Photography by GS Visuals + Co.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Hopkins cleaned his fingers after using a compression-powered glue gun on one of the 10-foot-high pods. Photography by GS Visuals + Co.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A detail of the cardboard pods. Photography by GS Visuals + Co.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Nylon barrier tape wrapped a pod to support it before the base, also cardboard, was glued on. Photography by GS Visuals + Co.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Backdropped by the Cotton Exchange<\/a>, an abandoned 1863 building in Blackburn, the gradient spectrum of the cardboard represented colors used by the Cardboard Box Company<\/a>, which donated the materials, over the course of the past 50 years. Photography by GS Visuals + Co.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

> See more from the August 2017 issue of Interior Design<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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