London’s Cheapside Gets Lively with Colorful Street Furniture
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Playful street furniture gets scattered throughout London’s Cheapside financial district as part of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), making the city bright and colorful. The displayed works are the winning designs of the City Benches competition,London’s Cheapside Gets Lively with Colorful Street Furniture
Playful street furniture gets scattered throughout London’s Cheapside financial district as part of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), making the city bright and colorful. The displayed works are the winning designs of the City Benches competition, reports dezeen.“The benches demonstrate not only the brilliance of London’s emerging architects, designers, and artists but also how small interventions can make such a difference to how people can experience and enjoy London’s streets and spaces,” says Tamsie Thomson, director of the LFA. “Cheapside is one of London’s liveliest and most interesting districts, and thanks to the support of the Cheapside Business Alliance, is a setting where these young teams can showcase their work to hundreds of thousands of people.”The five winning benches that are displayed were designed in response to this year’s theme of the festival — boundaries. The benches highlight the need for well-designed spaces for pedestrians in cities.Architect Anna Janiak’s “Benchtime,” at 150 Cheapside is inspired by the Jantar Mantar monument in New Delhi, a place that has a collection of life-sized astronomical instruments and doubles as a playground. “Benchtime” acts as a sundial to indicate time throughout the day.Astrian Studio Architects created a series of moveable, geometric benches named “City Blocks” inspired by children’s play blocks, in a bid to bring a feeling of youth and playfulness to Cheapside. They are installed within Cheapside Sunken Garden.Delve Architects with DragonSmoke Construction installed a giant, sleeping dog, named “Whippet Good,” by Delve Architects installed at the Bow Churchyard. It is designed in response to research that demonstrates the positive impact of dogs in the workplace.“Love Without Borders” installed alongside “Whippet Good,” responds to the hard borders causing division throughout the world.“Correlated Journeys” by artist Sarah Emily Porter and maker James Trundle is placed in front of the Royal Exchange. This rectangular bench with stripy multicolored finish represents London’s complex underground transport network.The benches will remain in place for the duration of LFA through June 30, 2019. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more