Dutch designer Roeland Otten uses mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints to disguise scruffy public buildings like this former public toilet in Amsterdam. For the latest instalment in Roeland Otten’s City Camouflage project, the tiles provide a pixelated view of Jan van Galenstraat shopping street. Otten’s project began in 2009 with the transformation of a former electricity substation on the corner of Graaf Floristraat and Heemraadsingel in Rotterdam. He clad the building in sheets of aluminium printed with high-resolution photographs of the surrounding streets, so that it seems almost invisible among the houses and trees. Last year he used acrylic paint to transform a rusty electricity substation on the Boompjeskade waterfront in Rotterdam. The bold graphic paintwork makes the substation blend in with the water and foliage nearby.

 

 

 

Izvor: dezeen, 28/1/2013