The 7 Metre Bar in Sydney has been officially opened by Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP.
The bar was created by landscape architect Adrian McGregor from McGregor Coxall, artist Richard Goodwin and 'architect/gamer' Russel Lowe and is one of eight installations that have transformed under-utilised laneways near George Street in Sydney.
At 7m above sea level, the installation combines the landscape of weather, an architecture of catastrophe and the technology of games.
The 7 Metre Bar, hidden in Underwood Street near Circular Quay sits at an elevation of 7m above sea level.
If the ice poles melt we will experience a 75m sea level rise according to NASA scientist James Hansen. At 8m, Underwood Street will be underwater, washed by tidal surges and the flotsam and jetsam of our civilisation.
The installation has cars, boats, building materials and bodies tangled within building columns like seaweed at the edge of beaches.
The project is a step toward the invigoration of Sydney’s neglected laneways, with the project was chosen by the jury from over 500 registrations and 68 submissions.
The temporary artworks of the festival will remain in place until January 2010.
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