The Hive
2015
The Hive was originally conceived as the centrepiece of the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo and was the first UK Pavilion to be reused and brought back to Britain after an Expo to be sited in its permanent home at Kew Gardens.
Thamesmead Cultural Strategy
2018 – ongoing
As Part of Peabody’s long-term regeneration plans to realise Thamesmead’s potential and build 20,000 new homes, they are embedding culture into the heart of their plans from the beginning. Their cultural strategy ensures that they work with local communities to create culture as part of daily life, and partnerships with local and international partners has enabled them to raise the profile and ambition of Thamesmead and put it on the map.
Free Tank: The Retrospective View of the Pathway
2013 – 2016
Free tank: The retrospective view of the pathway is a permanent public artwork created by renowned British artist Roger Hiorns as the final element of the Temple Quay waterfront master-plan.
Trenchard Street (Stoney Street Steps)
2014 – 2016
The renovation of the Stoney Street pedestrian public right of way was conceived and designed as a route and a destination social space to articulate through the use of materials the disjuncture between the crust of human occupation above ground and the bedrock beneath.
Writing on the Wall
1991 – 2002
Photographs of the Jewish quarter in Berlin from pre-world war II were projected on the buildings and streets where they were originally taken and then photographed to remind the city of a part of its identity sometimes forgotten.
Superkilen
2011
Superkilen Park in Copenhagen is a collaboration between BIG (architects), Topotek1 (landscape architects) and SUPERFLEX (artists) to create a public space that celebrates the diversity of its residents. The park is 355,000 square feet and boasts 60 installations of urban best practice from around the world.
Neon Parallax
2012
Across the rooftops of several prominent buildings in Geneva’s Plaine de Plainpalais are nine neon sculptures, which create an additional visual space in an already dense urban environment. The project, 'Urban Parallax' was officially inaugurated in October 2012 with an exhibition and an international conference at the Salle du Faubourg.
Longbridge Public Art Project (LPAP)
2012 – 2019
Longbridge Public Art Project (LPAP) by WERK was a contemporary art project embedded in one of the largest suburban regeneration schemes in the U.K. The scheme led by St. Modwen PLC transformed the area that was once the site of a thriving motor factory (1905-2005) and infamous political emblem of British Manufacturing into a new town.
Daily
2009
The ‘Prince Boulevard Public Art Program’ was an initiative to commission 6 permanent public artworks for this new art and cultural ‘district.’ Four local artists were selected - Tu Wei-Chen, Chen Cheng-Hsun, Wang Wen-Chih and Hsu Chuen-Shi - together with Dan Raralio from the Philippines and Leung Mee-Ping from Hong Kong.
Sandy Carpet
2008 – ongoing
The Sandy Carpet known as Farsh Sheni is a sand made carpet created annually, which has been crafted for the past 6 years on the southern island of Hormuz in Iran, Persian Gulf. The outstanding character, which makes this extraordinary carpet unique, is the application of more than one hundred colorful sands, which have been excavated from local mines and hills on this island.
Théâtre Source
2010 – 2013
The 1000 families residents of Ndogpassi III in Douala, Cameroon, are mainly migrants from the hinterland in search of a better future. The government has no answer to this influx of people and are indifferent to their welfare. Basic services such as water, electricity and garbage collection are often missing.
The Goat Pavilion
2018
Upon arriving at Hauser & Wirth gallery in Somerset in 2018 viewers were met by The Goat Pavilion, a striking collaboration between the artist Fernando Garcia-Dory and architect Takeshi Hayatsu of Hayatsu Architects. Commissioned by Adam Sutherland, as part of the group exhibition 'The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind' Goat Pavilion was a functional structure for goat farmers to use, including a fodder and feeding station and a milking station. The pavilion was inspired by the verticality of a mountain, echoing Garcia Dory’s earlier residency at Grizedale Arts, Cumbria in 2010-2011.
I’m blue, you’re yellow
2010 – ongoing
In 2012 artist Rebecca Chesney was commissioned to make I’m blue, you’re yellow , two acres (8000m2) of meadow planted in Everton Park in Liverpool. One acre is made entirely of blue flowering species, the other acre is entirely of yellow flowering species.
City Club
2019
City Club is a wide-ranging project by Gareth Jones and Nils Norman that seeks to embed alternative models of contemporary art within the fabric of Central Milton Keynes. Their five-year collaboration on City Club has been an exploration of shared interests in public space, modernism and the social meaning of design. In keeping with their ambition to work across disciplines, the core of the project has evolved to become an extended collaboration with 6a architects and designer Mark El-khatib.