Peter Kogler : Paris Skatepark
I was in Paris this week and i got the chance to take some photos of the Peter Kogler Paris Skatepark (i allready posted a french article scan about it here).
This piece of art is located in Paris 13, just search for the ‘Square Robert Bajac’, you can take the metro, it’s near the ‘Porte d’Italie’ Stop.
The Peter Kogler Skatepark is not really a skatepark because it only got this worldmap bowl, but the work of Peter Kogler is really original, and i found the idea really great. The place will be opened to skaters mid January 2007.
Here is the official text that was featured on the park front door :
Sprayed concrete on wire mesh, gray paint. Dish diameter 6m ; acceleration path diameter : 16m.
With this hollowed out fragment of a globe, Peter kogler offers us an inverted vision of the world at the same time as a welcoming surface devoted to skateboards and and rollerblades.
Photos : David Durrenberger
December 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pm
looks pretty kool, wood b sick if someone skated up to and back royaled along it
December 21st, 2006 at 7:06 pm
City councils should put more of these artworks around their cities!
December 21st, 2006 at 8:24 pm
It’s hardly a fucking skatepark!
December 21st, 2006 at 9:45 pm
looks pretty weak structurally.
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:19 am
c’est vraiment un skate parc alors ? On va pas se faire virer tt les 5 min, c’est sur ????
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:36 am
Vu comme ça a l’air chaud à rouler, ça m’étonnerait que ça devienne un squatt… Sauf pour les enfants du square…
December 30th, 2006 at 5:39 am
how am i gonna skate man…
thats weird…