3metre high x 4 metre wide bronze security gate for 77 Grosvenor Street, London W1. 2006. The gate is closed at night, during the day it divides in the centre and folds back against glowing amber-lit panels. The design is derived from a sequence of video images of the surface of water - a reminder that the river Tyburn runs underground nearby.
commissioned by Grosvenor Estates
photo: Grosvenor Estates
Posted on 14th November 2007
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Set within an external sunken courtyard, a 12 m high silver tree - an imagined shadow tree - links lower & upper levels. The reflection of the same species of tree planted outside mixes with the silvery shadow. 'Rainsquares' inset within the paved granite floor of the courtyard crystallize the memory of a real time event: falling rain on the roof of a neighbouring building on the 12 & 13 june 2002. Variation in the force of the falling raindrops on thin metal leaf made by wind or the rain shadow of the surrounding buildings caused the variations in the pattern. Commissioned for the Marunouchi building, Tokyo by Mitsubishi Estate C. Completed 2003.
photo: Tetsuhito Tanaka
Posted on 14th November 2007
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The gold and colored mosaic above the new entrance to the Royal Albert Hall,completed in 2003, was inspired by art and science in the tradition of the original terracotta mosaic frieze that wraps the dome. It is imagined that the warm air and composed sound from the hall meets with the cool air and wild sounds outside causing a turbulent situation. The image is derived from the surface of swirling, turbulent water This was worked on digitally, pixels in the design indicating the teserae of the mosaic.
Posted on 5th November 2007
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