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Rio wallflowers
As part of an art-project-cum-experiment in living, two brothers are living on the vertical facade of a building in the Old Center section of Rio de Janeiro, reports Archinect. Since May, twenty-seven-year-old Tiago Primo and his twenty-year-old brother Gabriel have been spending twelve hours a day suspended above the street on an outdoors wall equipped with a bed, sofa, hammock, coffee table, houseplant, and -- naturally! -- a victrola. The wall is also outfitted with climbing pegs and other mountaineering gear so the brothers can move easily from the bottom "floor," which is painted red, to the top one, painted yellow. Archinect does not say when the experiment/installation will end.
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
