London South's Bank
On through 31st October
The Size+Matter project on London's South Bank is one of the focal points of the London Design Festival.
In a bid to drag the focus south of the river and onto the ever-developing South Bank area, the London Design Festival commissioned two globally renowned British architects, Amanda Levete and Zaha Hadid, to create a public installation from one material, to be unveiled at the festival and later sold in a walk-through auction by Phillips de Pury.
The finished installations are extraordinary, reflecting the different and very signature styles of each architect.
Amanda Levete of Future Systems fame was charged with the material Corian and set about designing an installation in two sections, made up of repeated motifs of a single shape.
The effect is mesmerising. Sometimes seeming futuristic with the translucent quality that Corian has when light shines through it, at other times, it feels computer-generated. the joy is being able to walk through it, touch it and see how the ever-changing London light and weather affect one's perceptions of it against the brutalist architecture of the surrounding National Theatre.
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