Showing posts with label Greenwich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenwich. Show all posts
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Up at The O2
Climbing over the roof of The O2
Drawdock Road / Millennium Way
Greenwich Peninsula, North Greenwich
London, September 2014
See also: On Top of The O2
Saturday, December 20, 2014
On Top of The O2
Climbers on the top platform of The O2
Drawdock Road / Millennium Way
Greenwich Peninsula, North Greenwich
London, September 2014
See also: Up at The O2
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
The Fossil Tree
The Fossil Tree by John Mills
Millennium Milepost on the Greenwich Meridian
Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich
London, September 2003
“One thousand ‘Millennium Mileposts’ made from cast iron were funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network, and these are found along the NCN routes throughout the UK. There are four different types: ‘Fossil Tree’ (designed by John Mills), ‘The Cockerel’ (designed by Iain McColl), ‘Rowe Type’ (designed by Andrew Rowe), and ‘Tracks’ (designed by David Dudgeon). The four artists are from each country of the UK, though all posts can be found in all four countries. Most mileposts contain a disk featuring symbols and text in code. There are 60 different designs, spread across the country. They form part of the Millennium Time Trail, a treasure hunt puzzle created by Sustrans in 2001.” (National Cycle Network, Wikipedia)
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Quantum Cloud
“Quantum Cloud” by by Antony Gormley, 1999
Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich
London, September 2003
“The Quantum Cloud is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located next to The O2 in London. The sculpture was commissioned for the site and was completed in 1999. At 30 metres (98 ft) high, it is Gormley's tallest sculpture to date (taller than the Angel of the North). It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) long sections of steel. The steel sections were arranged using a computer model with a random walk algorithm starting from points on the surface of an enlarged figure based on Gormley's body that forms a residual outline at the centre of the sculpture. In designing Quantum Cloud, Antony Gormley was influenced by Basil Hiley, quantum physicist (and long-time colleague of David Bohm). The idea for Quantum Cloud came from Hiley's thoughts on pre-space as a mathematical structure underlying space-time and matter, and his comment that ‘algebra is the relationship of relationships.’ The comment was made during a conversation between Gormley, Hiley and writer David Peat at a 1999 London gathering of artists and scientists, organized by Peat. The sculpture's structural design was by Elliott Wood Partnership while the foundation design was by Beckett Rankine. Fabrication was by Tubeworkers (Structures) Ltd. Gormley's Quantum Cloud is part of The Line, a series of public sculptures that follow the Greenwich Meridian, through the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Tower Hamlets and Newham. On 5 August 2020, it, and Gary Hume’s Liberty Grip will be joined in Three Mills Green, Stratford by Thomas J. Price's Reaching Out showing a black woman looking down at her mobile phone.” (Quantum Cloud, Wikipedia)
Monday, January 24, 2005
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Monday, January 17, 2005
Renaissance Walk
Greenwich Millennium Village
Renaissance Walk
Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich
London, September 2003
“Greenwich Millennium Village (GMV) is a mixed-tenure modern development on an urban village model located on the Greenwich Peninsula in Greenwich, in south-east London, and part of the Millennium Communities Programme under English Partnerships (now renamed Homes and Communities Agency). The village is designed by architects Ralph Erskine and partners with EPR Architects Ltd as executive architect as part of the regeneration of the whole brownfield site of East Greenwich Gas Works. GMV is south of the former Millennium Dome, now renamed the O2.” (Greenwich Millennium Village, Wikipedia)
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Friday, December 10, 2004
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Cutty Sark bell
The bell of the “Cutty Sark”
King William Walk, Greenwich Peninsula
London, September 2003
“In 1953 Cutty Sark was given to the Cutty Sark Preservation Society and in 1954 she was moved to a custom-built dry dock at Greenwich. She was stripped of upper masts, yards, deck-houses and ballast to lighten her before being towed from the East India Import Dock to the special dry dock at Greenwich. The skipper on this occasion was 83-year-old Captain C.E. Irving, who had sailed the world three times in her before he was 17. The river pilot was Ernest Coe. Thereafter the entrance tunnel to the dry dock was filled in, the river wall rebuilt and the work of re-rigging began. The foundation stone of the dry dock was laid by The Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society, in June 1953. The restoration, re-rigging and preparation for public exhibition was estimated to cost £250,000.” (Cutty Sark, Wikipedia)
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