Mexico Border Wall

It is not a sound normally associated with the border, particularly in its latest role as a national symbol of incalculable political charge. But there it was, as unmistakable as the pink seesaws that prompted it: laughter. Two architects in the San Francis…

Five designs that challenge Trump's US-Mexico border wall

A spot of brightness recently emerged amid the the gray desert sand and the dark steel fencing laid across border of Sunland Park, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: flamingo pink see-saws that cut across the border were installed over the weekend, allowi…

Rael San Fratell slots pink seesaws into US-Mexico border wall

A set of neon pink seesaws along the US-Mexico border (in Sunland Park and Ciudad Juárez, respectively) have been installed by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratellowho work together as Rael San Fratello. The installationcalled “Teetertotter Wall”is playful an…

Two California professors unveiled three pink seesaws that rest on the U.S.-Mexico border wall a playful and fun way to bring “joy, excitement and togetherness” to families on both sides of the border. Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University…

Think back to the earliest days of your childhood. Odds are that you remember smiling and having a lot of fun with your friends in playgrounds, whether you were on the swings or a seesaw. However, you probably wouldn’t expect to see seesaws anywhere near a he…

Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello have long worked in activating structures in projects that blur the line between art and architecture. The Oakland-based duo, who self-describe as pursuing “applied architectural research”, also have a longstanding intere…

The border wall between Mexico and the United States is the ultimate symbol of division. But two architects have found a simple, playful way to connect the people on either side: seesaws.Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, partners at the design firm Rael …

YABUCOA, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The nonprofit All Hands and Hearts arrived here in January 2018, to fix roofs in the rural town where Hurricane Maria made its first, most damaging landfall.  “We kept an open-door policy,” partnership manager Nicole Franks …