When droning isn't dull

Here's an extraordinary image showing a reconstruction of what Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire (and popular with Dracula fans worldwide) would have once looked like.

And it's all done with drones. Or will be.

If you've ever watched any of the recent extraordinary fireworks displays in capital cities on New Year's Eve you'll have seen how teams of computer-controlled drones can make fantastic images in the sky. These reconstructed buildings will be done by using the same technology. But it's not quite there yet.

These are mock-ups created by Dutch art installation duo DRIFT who are working with drone display experts Cyberdrone to create these fantastic images in real life. Apart from Whitby Abbey they also plan to 'complete' unfinished or damaged buildings such as the Colosseum in Rome, the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, the Plovdiv Amphitheatre in Bulgaria and the ruins of Soli in Turkey. Here are some images to show how they might look.

DRIFT's Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn call their planned installations ‘aerial sculptures’ and they state that, once perfected, they could also demonstrate what as yet unbuilt projects could look like, such as this projected skyscraper in Chicago.

DRIFT love to play with technology to create installations that blend nature with science and the old with the new. Here's a video about their exhibition, Coded Nature:

DRIFT's website is here.

Cyberdrone's website is here.

All images copyright (c) DRIFT/Cyberdrone