Size + Matter: the materials project - We Made This

Size + Matter: the materials project

Hadid

On our way over to the Irma Boom lecture (see below), we checked out the two new installations outside the Royal Festival Hall, forming the Size + Matter project for the London Design Festival: Urban Nebula is by Zaha Hadid, and Prototile is by Amanda Levete . Both pieces will be hanging out on the Southbank for a month or so, before being auctioned off.

The pair of them have a nice yin and yang thing going on.

We liked Zaha Hadid's piece best - it reminded us of a bike tyre. Made of basalt. Acting like a snake.

And Hadid picked up the first London Design Medal last night, at the official opening of the London Design Festival.

You can read more about Urban Nebula on the Zaha Hadid blog, and check out more of Alistair's LDF images on his Flickr set.

posted: 19 September 2007
categories: Events

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