BOX: October 2010

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

extension and connection

understanding southbank centre

by min ha

southbank centre / concrete / material

by min ha

sound, drawing, performance, emotion, extension

Emilie Simon

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Working with Project Morrinho, a social and cultural project based out of the Pereira da Silva favela in Rio de Janeiro, Southbank Centre is creating an outdoor favela, constructed using the signature Morrinho brick building techniques, with a group of young people from Stockwell. (sep.2010)

'VOLUME' - southbank centre

Artwork called 'Volume' outside the Festival Hall, Southbank, for Massive Attack's Meltdown, June 2008

The poles react to movement - they make noises and change colour.

Meltdown curators Massive Attack have invited United Visual Artists to exhibit an installation at Southbank Centre as part of Meltdown. Volume is an award winning sculpture consisting of a luminous array of light and sound emitting columns on Riverside Terrace. The facade of Southbank Centre is also transformed by light and the projection of a new collaboration with the charity organisation Reprieve.

Wind to Light- Jason Bruges Studio

onedotzero, internationally acclaimed hub for innovative moving image, are pleased to present "Wind to Light" by Jason Bruges Studio, a onedotzero and RIBA London commission in conjunction with Southbank Centre Lightlab for Architecture Week 2007.

This experimental site-specific installation illustrates alternative, sustainable ways of harnessing energy that will explore the power of the wind in the city, visualising it as an ephemeral cloud of light.

wind to light' is a custom built, site-specific installation consisting of 500 miniature wind turbines directly generating the power to illuminate hundreds of integrally mounted LEDs (light-emitting diodes). the effect is to create 'firefly-like fields of light' where the wind can be visualized as an ephemeral electronic cloud
in the atmosphere. the turbine and LED modules are attached to their base by flexible poles which allow them to slightly sway in the wind, animating the movement of the wind by a digital, electronic means.

The installation has been custom built, using scaled down wind turbines to generate power, which illuminate hundreds of mounted LEDS, creating firefly-like fields of light, with wind visually interpreted as electronic patterns across the installation.

short history of southbank centre

History

Southbank Centre consists of three key buildings: Royal Festival Hall, the Hayward and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

The South Bank Centre is built on the grounds of the 1951 Festival of Britain, of which only the Royal Festival Hall remain designed by Leslie Martin and Peter Moro

and the Hayward Gallery/Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room were built in the late 1960s replacing the Shot Tower. Situated on the south bank of the River Thames, Southbank Centre is at the heart of an arts quarter stretching from the Royal National Theatre and National Film Theatre to Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe.

Allies and Morrison has worked as House Architects since 1992 and were appointed to develop the overall concept design for the renovation and restoration of the Royal Festival Hall in 1996.

Southbank Centre Masterplan Design : Rick Mather

The masterplan provides a framework for upgrading and extending the use of existing cultural facilities alongside major improvements to the public experience of this 22-acre strategic central London location. The site includes the Royal Festival Hall, the Hayward Gallery, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, and the BFI Southbank. The plan has been developed from 1999 to date and has proved to be a flexible framework to accommodate the challenging needs of the site.