
"Your Rainbow Panorama" The 360° multi-coloured glass viewing walkway on the roof of ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Quintin Lake

Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur Eliasson on the roof of ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum, Denmark. Photo: Quintin Lake
“Your Rainbow Panorama” is a Rainbow-coloured glass walkway on the roof of the Danish art museum ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum, by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The permanent piece consists of a 150-metre-long and three-metre-wide self-contained circular walkway with glass that moves through all of the colours of the spectrum. The 52-metre-diameter walkway “floats” 3.5 metres above the roof and stretches like a multi-coloured halo — supported by 12 slender columns. The piece opened to the public on 28 May, 2011. In order to access the walkway, visitors can take stairs or a lift from the museum in order to appreciate a panoramic view tinted in different colours.Eliasson describes the work:
Your Rainbow panorama establishes a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what was already there, that is to say the view across the city. I have created a space that can almost be said to erase the boundary between inside and outside — a place where you become a little uncertain as to whether you have stepped into a work of art or into part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to function.”
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Wow, what amazing architecture. And great photos too. Thanks so much for sharing.
It’s spectacullar isn’t it! Thanks for your comment
[…] The final combination and rhythm of colours was influenced by the Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s theories as can be seen by looking at his works such as “Fire in the Evening” (above). This sophisticated use of colour in architecture won the building the WAN Colour in Architecture award in 2011. For another stunning use of coloured glass in architecture see my photographs of “My Rainbow Horizon” in Denmark […]
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And wow – if that were over the countryside, how brill would it be? Brill already! 🙂
Agreed!
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