'Safe or not, we should turn more billboards into swingsets' (re-posted on 26/12/11)

Didier Faustino, Double Happiness, 2009, Billboard and swings mix, steel ladder, steel lattice platform, protective nets on steel structure 6.4 x 3.7 x 6.6 m. Screen shot.

Parisian architect Didier Faustino's sculpture called 'urban furniture' is one of the best and to-the-point examples of art installations towards the re-appropriation of public spaces. He turned the skeleton of an advertising billboard into a swingset for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture.

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