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Title:
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'The Tyburn Project'
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The Tyburn Project incorporates twelve stained glass windows and two enamelled glass canopies. The work comprises fifteen square meters of decorative float glass. The decorative glass has been integrated into double glazed units and covers the facade over three floors. All glass has been toughened, laminated or heatsoaked to conform to the relevant British Standard.
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Client:
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Morgan Sindall Plc
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Architect:
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KP Architects
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Location:
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110 Wigmore Street, London, England.
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The decorative glass is linked thematically and functions as on piece of work. This project is a celebration of the River Tyburn. It is one of several artworks that mark the path of the Tyburn as it flows from the springs on Hampstead Heath to the Thames at Westminster. A collage of dates, maps and chronological images point to this fact. Computer technology and anamorphic distortion have been used to create an aesthetic of information overload. The work is buzzing with information that is transforming itself into something unruly and difficult to control. The water course is used as a metaphor to celebrate the equally anarchic forces beneath the urbanity of city life.
"Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock."
Landscape and Memory - Simon Schama
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