Drink up!

SHSH is an Architecture and Scenography office based in Belgium. This particular installation is Bonheur Provisoire, a temporary pavilion built in Brussels for the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition. The structure housed projection rooms and exhibit space and is constructed with used beer crates! 33,000 crates were used to create columns, arches, domes that can all be de-constructed and used as beer crates once again.
The structure behind the installation is Atomium which was originally built for that World Exhibition to mimic an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. The Atomium (a misnomer since it is shaped more like a molecule than an atom) is a series of exhibit spaces connected by escalator tubes. Five of the spheres contain information about the Exhibition, another sphere is a changing exhibit, currently showing Intersections, Belgian Design, and the top sphere is a panorama lookout. It is an interesting place that makes you feel a little retro-future-ish knowing that in 1958 this was probably one of the most futuristic places patrons had been.