The photographers who designed a digital art piece of a Tetris board superimposed on Jardine House, the renowned skyscraper in Central, have turned the artwork into a playable version.
Blair Sugarman, one of the artists behind the creative number, wrote on Instagram Wednesday: “At BV (photography collective Beyond Visuals) we understand that many of you in the Hong Kong financial district like to have fun with lines,” referring to absolutely nothing illicit in particular.
“We feel that you’ll really enjoy playing Tetris on one of HK’s most iconic buildings,” he added.
The game can be accessed at Beyond Visual’s website, where the team is calling on players to share their final scores for a chance to win a photo print.
Sugarman first shared his reimagination of Jardine House—an office tower playfully nicknamed “Building of a Thousand Assholes”—on Instagram last week.
In the game, the tower’s office lights form the four-tile Tetris segments cascading against the skyscraper’s window-dotted facade.
Sugarman, who works in the building next to Jardine House, told Coconuts that he had always thought it looked like a giant Connect 4 board.
“I’ve always imagined what it would be like if the lights were coordinated in a way that shows the game being played,” he said. “For the past few years it’s really driven me crazy to look out the window and be reminded of a vision that I hadn’t yet completed.”
Amid the pandemic inertia of being stuck in Hong Kong, he and photographer Will Markezana began toying with images of the building. Using a combination of drone photography, compositing and Python coding, they turned the silver monolith into a classic game of Tetris. (Connect 4, Sugarman explained, would have been more complex to execute as it would require two colors due to its multiplayer nature.)
The piece—named “Fun and Games at Jardine House”—is on display at the Digital Art Fair, which opened to the public Sunday.
