Big Blue functions both as a remarkable visual event within Canada Square Park and as illumination for the shopping mall below. A huge, asymmetric glass fibre object, it rests on a ring of structural glazing that makes it appear as if it were floating above the ground.
As tall as the surrounding buildings, the needle thin, 50 metre high Windwand, made of vivid red carbon fibre, was designed to flex gently in the wind, subverting one's expectations of what tall objects in this area should do.
Ron Arad is one of Britain's most inventive designers, whose work crosses boundaries.
As tall as the surrounding buildings, the needle thin, 50 metre high Windwand, made of vivid red carbon fibre, was designed to flex gently in the wind, subverting one's expectations of what tall objects in this area should do.
Ron Arad is one of Britain's most inventive designers, whose work crosses boundaries.
The Big Blue, 2000
The Big Blue, 2000
The Big Blue, 2000
The Big Blue, 2000
The Big Blue, 2000
Windward, 2000
Windward, 2000
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