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The Blob as a wall. (Photos by C-M.)

Bricks: they’re those heavy, rectangular prisms that you stack, one on top of the other, to make offices and mini-malls and parking garages. Or are they? Architect Greg Lynn of FORM gives them a serious makeover in his supercool Blobwall Pavilion at SCI-Arc’s gallery in downtown L.A. His reinvented bricks are hollow and made of recyclable polymer, stacked together to produce what amounts to one kick-ass, blobby-looking structure. Get over to see the installation ASAP (the show is only up through this weekend), because this fall, the pavilion is gonna be shipped to Italy for the Venice Biennale.

Here are directions to SCI-Arc. Helpful tip: the “entrance” to the building is around the back. You’d think a structure filled with architects would think to note this somewhere out front, but this little detail seems to have eluded everyone’s attention. Or is making people walk up and down a very long block in search of an open door some new avant-garde architectural thing I don’t know about?

More after the jump. Click on images to supersize.

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On a side note: The cool thing about the SCI-Arc building is that, when they remodeled, they left some of the graffiti tags on the support pillars intact.

A tag by Saber, who currently has several sculptures in the Laguna Art Museum show, In the Land of Retinal Delights.

Tag by Revok, who has done major pieces around L.A. and elsewhere for 15+ years.

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