Size+Matter is something of a fixture at London Design Festival—the space outside the Royal Festival Theatre on the Southbank being given over to the likes of Zaha Hadid, Marc Newson and Paul Cocksedge in previous years, each designer having been commissioned to create a sculpture in partnership with innovative material manufacturers.
This year's installation was created by David Chipperfield Architects, an arrangement of large glass panels apparently establishing "a dialogue between two identical forms, different in their orientation and material build-up". The arrangement is coloured with thin copper and aluminium mesh sandwiched between layers of glass, giving the glass a translucent quality.
Unfortunately—what with the amount of pigeons flocking around central London—"Two Lines" will probably need a lot of cleaning to maintain the architects vision.
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