These Stunning Geometric Sandcastles Echo Architectural Expression

We’ve always been fans of building sand castles at the beach, eager to create turrets and moats before the waves inevitably washed it all away.

Sand artist Calvin Seibert takes this pastime to a whole new level of craft and execution, creating large, precise, and impressive geometric castles.

His work echoes some of the best architectural styles, from Brutalism to Cubism, to Avant Garde. Using trowels and homemade tampers, Seibert has created hundreds of these temporary creations, mostly on Queen’s Rockaway Beach.

We love the patience and attention to detail that these castles require to make.

Via School of Visual Arts:

“Seibert’s castles are big, fantastical, cubist-looking things, alternately blocky and curvy, striated and smooth. They are most obviously influenced by architecture, primarily brutalism and modernism, but filled with details and inspirations from elsewhere and everywhere, be it earthworks, fine art or geology. They can sprawl for several feet or consist of heaps of haphazardly arranged, odd-angled shapes, or do both.”

Photo by Jeremy Cohen.