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The floating building is part of what Chinneck calls the “architectural chapter” of his career, which has born four large-scale installations that use the materials, language and shapes associated with the craft. Though he’d previously used construction materials to create small sculptures, he only recently started working on a larger scale, partly inspired by Rachel Whiteread’s House (a concrete mold of a Victorian house that won the Turner Prize in 1993) and the installations of Richard Wilson.
“It just made sense to integrate those creative explorations into an architectural context and scale, back to where they belonged.”
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