The London Design Festival has just announced that David Chipperfield and Paul Cocksedge are to create landmark installations for the fourth edition of Size + Matter - a cornerstone project of the London Design Festival at Southbank Centre which explores the dynamic between materials, manufacturing and a leading designer or architect.
The installations will be on display from the 18th of September until the 17th of October outside the Royal Festival Hall on the River Thames; after which they will be sold through design auction house, Phillips de Pury & Company.
Paul Cocksedge Studio has designed 'Drop'; a series of 3 metre high, polished, stainless steel discs to be situated on Festival Terrace which will reflect the buildings and landscape around the Royal Festival Hall.
Conceived as ’huge coins that have fallen to earth from a giant’s palm and buckled on impact’, the coins are also magnetised to encourage human interaction, enabling passers-by to place spare pennies on the reflective surface, altering the appearance of the installation.
As more pennies are added, the work will evolve in front of the public’s eye as Drop’s surface becomes plated in copper. The ultimate aim is for each penny given, a pound will be donated to charity.
Architect David Chipperfield has created 'The Space in Between' which is a cityscape of nine modular blocks ranging from 2.8 metres to 5.8 metres high and covering an impressive 175 square metres. The Space in Between seamlessly transforms from shimmering towers in the sunlight to glowing, jewel-like beacons at night.
With a light source hidden in the base of each block, as day turns to night each will begin to glow and the towers’ solidity apparent in the day will fall away, encouraging a new relationship between the cityscape and the audience. The installation, on Southbank Centre Square, is overlooked by the various elevated walkways at Southbank Centre as well as the street and surrounding plazas.
The total composition oscillates between a large still life and a small cityscape where the space in between becomes the protagonist in the balancing of mass and space.
