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02-09-2018, 05:31 PM
The 'darkest building on Earth' is at the Winter Olympic Games
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"There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
Spinal Tap's inane discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds7FRivVMgA) of their pitch-black album cover is the best way we can get a handle on the brand-new pavilion unveiled at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games*in South Korea.
SEE ALSO: The Norwegian curling team's pants are the real stars of the Olympics (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/norway-curling-uniforms-olympics-fashion/)
A new project commissioned by Hyundai, British architect Asif Khan's 10-meter-high temporary building has been erected specifically for the Games, which officially begin on Friday, Feb. 9.
In what's being called "the darkest building on Earth," Khan's structure has employed a sprayable version of the ominous Vantablack (https://mashable.com/2017/03/29/worlds-darkest-material-vantablack/) pigment. Created by UK researchers in 2014 and trademarked by British artist Anish Kapoor (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/26/anish-kapoor-vantablack-art-architecture-exclusive-rights-to-the-blackest-black), Vantablack is touted as the darkest known artificial substance in the world — it absorbs up to 99.965 percent of light that hits its surface.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/08/vantablack-pavilion-winter-olympics/)
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"There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
Spinal Tap's inane discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds7FRivVMgA) of their pitch-black album cover is the best way we can get a handle on the brand-new pavilion unveiled at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games*in South Korea.
SEE ALSO: The Norwegian curling team's pants are the real stars of the Olympics (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/norway-curling-uniforms-olympics-fashion/)
A new project commissioned by Hyundai, British architect Asif Khan's 10-meter-high temporary building has been erected specifically for the Games, which officially begin on Friday, Feb. 9.
In what's being called "the darkest building on Earth," Khan's structure has employed a sprayable version of the ominous Vantablack (https://mashable.com/2017/03/29/worlds-darkest-material-vantablack/) pigment. Created by UK researchers in 2014 and trademarked by British artist Anish Kapoor (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/26/anish-kapoor-vantablack-art-architecture-exclusive-rights-to-the-blackest-black), Vantablack is touted as the darkest known artificial substance in the world — it absorbs up to 99.965 percent of light that hits its surface.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/08/vantablack-pavilion-winter-olympics/)
More about Art (https://mashable.com/category/art/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Pavilion (https://mashable.com/category/pavilion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Olympic Games (https://mashable.com/category/olympic-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Winter Olympic Games (https://mashable.com/category/winter-olympic-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Installation (https://mashable.com/category/installation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/r2rSJVAh8bo