Sculpture

In an inspired piece of Olympics legacy development, a sculpture that was created for the 2012 Games in London is to become "the world's tallest and longest slide." Visitors will be able to descend from the top of the ArcelorMittal Orbit.

As a child, Brooklyn-based metal sculptor Adrian Landon played with Lego a lot. He also learned about horses from his polo-playing dad. That background set the stage for Landon's latest work of art, a stainless steel life-size Mechanical Horse that gallops in slow motion at the press of a button.

A statue so tiny that it cannot be seen by the naked eye has been produced using a new 3D printing technique. Measuring a picayune 20 x 80 x 100 microns, it's claimed the smallest sculpture of the human form ever created.

The use of UV light, special blue-light polymers and a clever safety trigger could make the Polyes Q1 the safest 3D sketching pen yet.

A group of British artists have conceptualized a giant solar harvesting floating duck as part of the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative Copenhagen design competition. Energy Duck has been designed to generate clean electricity for the local residents of Copenhagen.

A complex aeronautical sculpture by Richard Wilson, described by engineers as "a hundred-thousand-piece jigsaw," was unveiled as part of the newly refurbished Heathrow Terminal 2 on April 23. The 78-meter-long (256-foot) sculpture simulates the flight path of a small stunt plane.

The TED Conference taking place this week in Vancouver is featuring a huge net sculpture floating above the city that's hung from a skyscraper and incorporates an interactive light-show at night.

A tower made of organic bricks has won the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2014. Hy-Fi, conceived by New York architecture firm The Living, is a circular sculpture that will be built with bricks grown from corn stalks and living root structures.

French artist Gilles Azzaro has created a 3D-printed three-dimensional voice sculpture of a 39-second clip of Barack Obama's State of the Union address. His programming software digitally reconstructs a person's voice in three dimensions, creating a voiceprint which he prints out with a 3D printer.

The local cultural association of the small Austrian market town of Krumbach has invited a range of international architects to submit their takes on the humble bus stop. The results are in, and one minimal design has already been built.

How many artificial animals can you encounter on a seaside walk? More than one if you frequent the Dutch coastline where Theo Jansen's moving artworks amble along with the help of their rudimentary senses.

Rolling out of a hangar on the former Soesterberg Air Base in Utrecht, The Netherlands, is a black, angular shape that looks like a stealth hermit crab crossed with an airport waiting lounge: Secret Operation 610.