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Launch of a Creative Programme in Wakefield
Wakefield based creative organisation Beam has been engaged to deliver a creative programme for property developer Modus’s Trinity Walk scheme in Wakefield.
Visualisation of how Trinity Walk will look
DLA Architecture
Courtesy of Modus Properties
The Creative Programme, with joint funding from Modus, Arts Council England, and CABE (the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment), will combine arts and learning activities with community engagement.
In partnership, Modus and Beam will embark on an innovative set of activities aimed at making Trinity Walk a thriving community asset as well as a commercial success. Through a series of public events, site visits, artistic interventions, and workshops with schools and young people, Modus and Beam hope to inspire the people of Wakefield, encouraging them to learn about, and feel part of, good design, creativity and place-making in their city. The programme also involves artists in the design of both permanent and temporary public art for the scheme, with Wakefield-based DLA Architects providing guidance and advice.
Trinity Walk is a £200m scheme that will provide in excess of 500,000 sq ft of retail, a new public library, residential units and a car park. Modus started on site in September 2007 and the scheme will be opening in spring 2010.
Further details: contact Victoria Hodgson; Tel: 01924 215550; Email: exhibitions@beam.uk.net
www.beam.uk.net/news.php
(Uploaded 29.05.08)
Liverpool Pavilions Project
Three specially commissioned and spectacular pavilions will be launched in three Liverpool neighbourhoods for the city's year as European Capital of Culture.
Artist's impression of the Rotunda Pavilion
Gross Max
The Pavilions will open to the public at Rotunda in Kirkdale on 27 April, Edge Hill Station, Kensington on 3 May, and on 31 May as part of a 'cultural revolution' in Garston at the Wellington Street School.
Rotunda in Kirkdale has worked with internationally acclaimed landscape architects Gross Max to develop a strip of derelict land adjacent to their building into a community garden. The gardens are divided into two parts: one will have its very own Folly with a vertical garden inside and spaces for activities and events. The second part will be divided into 'Bar Code' garden strips of varying widths, which will be tended by community groups throughout the year creating a multi-textured environment for the whole community to enjoy. The gardens will be open to the public from 27 April 2008.
Metal in Kensington invited artist and architect, father and son team Luis Fernando Pelàez and Juan Manuel Pelàez from Colombia, to transform the disused approach to Edge Hill Station. Nexus will be a sea of columns along the length of the space, referencing the design from original flooring found in the station from 1836.
Artist Michael Trainor, working closely with Garston Cultural Village, will transform Garston's boundaries into the Artistic Republic of Garston making the existing school building into Garston's civic Embassy. On 31 May the public are invited to a 'revolution' that will launch The Artistic Republic of Garston and the Embassy will become a new palace of culture with fountains, a maze, formal gardens and even its own oil well and weapons of mass attraction!
A series of major new public art projects commissioned by Liverpool Biennial in partnership with the Culture Company as part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture Programme will be on show in the city and its neighbourhoods at the same time as the Liverpool Pavilions.
Further details: Kerenza Hines, Project Manager - Pavilions Project; Email: k@kerenza.net
www.biennial.com
(Uploaded 22.04.08)
Peer Plaques: Burnley Public Art Project 2008
The first of three artworks commissioned by Burnley Borough Council under the Burnley Public art project has recently been installed. The artworks are the outcome of a two-year residency by an artist-architect team consisting of civic Architects and artist Kevin Carter.
Peer Plaques, Burnley
© civic & Kevin Carter 2008
The three proposals produced as part of the commission helped Burnley Borough Council win a commendation in the 2007 Royal Town Planning Institute National Awards in March 2008, and was awarded a Royal Town Planning Institute, North West Regional Award in October 2007, for Community Engagement in Area Action Plans.
The public art projects are for short-term public uses of ‘cleared sites’. Cleared sites are plots where whole streets of terraced houses have been demolished as part of the housing market renewal process. Each proposal is made in expectation that an intensive house-building programme will close these ‘holes’ in the near future.
The project aims to reflect local residents’ experience of Housing Market Renewal process and was jointly funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), PROJECT, Burnley Borough Council and Elevate East Lancashire; one of the Housing Market Renewal pathfinders, charged with finding innovative solutions to the problem of low demand and housing collapse in towns across Pennine Lancashire.
The first artwork ‘Peer Plaques’, a series of 50 vinyl heritage style plaques applied to boarded up soon to be demolished housing, was installed in February 2008 with the other two installations – Landform and Strawberry Fields – planned to move forward during the coming year.
The work features a selection of quotes from Burnley residents in response to the following question:
“What is your first thought when you think about your neighbourhood?”
Further details: Kevin Carter, Co-Lab Projects; Tel: 020 7729 7644; Email: Kevin@co-lab.org
Dan Jones/Andrew Siddall, civic Architects Ltd; Tel: 020 7407 0720; Email: dan@civic.org.uk
Read Public Art Online’s case study about the development of this project.
(Uploaded 07.04.08)