May 18, 2018
“The Hull of a Large Ship” at the Barbican Arts Centre
We have contributed to the exhibition The Hull of a Large Ship, on display in the foyers of the Barbican Arts Centre until 11 November 2018. Subtitled ‘Five contemporary architects respond to the original Barbican plans’, we are showing a casting and a drawing that interpret the deep structure and future potential of the foyers.
“Long used as the space between staged performances, the foyer has slowly become the Arts Centre’s fifth venue – not concert hall, theatre, gallery or cinema, but a bit of all of them. Generous, intimate, porous, it is a public place: something of increasing rarity and value in our privatised city. Its strangely multiple identity can be read as an invitation to multiple events, atmospheres and publics, co-existing side by side – a twenty-first century public space.”
