{"id":2639,"date":"2015-09-22T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2015-09-22T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:49:59","slug":"the-shooting-star-sculpture-at-london-design-festival-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/events\/the-shooting-star-sculpture-at-london-design-festival-2015","title":{"rendered":"The Shooting Star sculpture at London Design Festival 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During \u00a0London Design Festival\u00a02015<\/a>, british sculptor Alex Chinneck\u00a0transforms the everyday into the extraordinary with his latest outdoor installation, \u2018a bullet from a shooting star\u2019.\u00a0The enormous intervention sees a lattice of steel that takes the form of an inverted electricity pylon, seemingly shot into the ground at a precarious angle. In its realization, Alex Chinnek and his team\u00a0used 450 pieces of steel and 900 engineered connection points, all constructed from a combined length of 1186 meters of steel, weighing 15 tons.<\/p>\n

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The 35-metre high creative structure has been designed to be seen from a distance, and can be viewed from North Greenwich Station, the Emirates Airline cable car, the Thames Clipper service, Canary Wharf and all planes that fly to and from City Airport. Illuminated at night, the work acts as a literal beacon and will project a maze of latticed shadows.<\/p>\n

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This massive box steel sculpture was commissioned by the London Design Festival in collaboration with Greenwich Peninsula. Alex Chinnec,\u00a0who specialises in architectural installations featuring optical illusions, was also the artist behind a\u00a0house\u00a0in Margate with a slumping brick facade\u00a0and a\u00a0levitating building in Covent Garden\u2019s Piazza.<\/p>\n

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Alex Chinneck\u2019s indoor and outdoor works have been conceived to share a dialogue that links the East and the West of the Peninsula. Physically separated yet sculpturally connected they will encourage visitors to explore both areas of the expansive and extraordinary district and unravel its rich history.<\/p>\n

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Illuminated at night, it will also create a beacon for passing cars and for planes passing overhead on their arrival to and from the City Airport, as well as the Emirates cable car that links both banks of the River Thames and passing boat services.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe work takes a complex path to reach a dramatic conclusion,\u201d says Alex Chinneck. \u201cFor the London Design Festival I wanted to take on my biggest challenge to date \u2013 one that could only be realised through collaborative design and problem solving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During \u00a0London Design Festival\u00a02015, british sculptor Alex Chinneck\u00a0transforms the everyday into the extraordinary with his latest outdoor installation, \u2018a bullet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,43],"tags":[1278,1282,1280,197,925,1281,1283,1279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}