UK - London - Photo24 2022 - Paternoster Square - Angels Wings 02_mono v2_5004477
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Taken during last months Photo24 event, this shot of the Thomas Heatherwick 'Angel wings' vents was taken with a 10.5mm Nikon fisheye lens that the sponsors MPB kindly lent me.
Click here to see more of my photos from this, and previous years, Photo24 events : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157667520181380
From 'Learning to look at sculpture' by Mary Acton, "At the end of a narrow pedestrian alleyway off Paternoster Square near St. Paul’s Cathedral in London are a pair of stainless-steel “angel’s wings” 11 meters high. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the sculpture actually serves a practical purpose: It provides ventilation for an electrical substation below ground. Cool air is sucked in through grids on the ground, and hot air is conducted through the sculpture and released high overhead.
“The commissioner had been exploring options that involved creating a single structure that housed both inlet vents and outlet vents,” Heatherwick wrote. “It made a large bulky object that dominated the public square around it, reducing it to little more than a corridor. As this was a sensitive location near St. Paul’s, we decided to make it our priority to shrink the visible mass of the vent structure to a minimum.”"
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UK - London - Photo24 2022 - Paternoster Square - Angels Wings 02_mono v2_5004477
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
Taken during last months Photo24 event, this shot of the Thomas Heatherwick 'Angel wings' vents was taken with a 10.5mm Nikon fisheye lens that the sponsors MPB kindly lent me.
Click here to see more of my photos from this, and previous years, Photo24 events : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157667520181380
From 'Learning to look at sculpture' by Mary Acton, "At the end of a narrow pedestrian alleyway off Paternoster Square near St. Paul’s Cathedral in London are a pair of stainless-steel “angel’s wings” 11 meters high. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the sculpture actually serves a practical purpose: It provides ventilation for an electrical substation below ground. Cool air is sucked in through grids on the ground, and hot air is conducted through the sculpture and released high overhead.
“The commissioner had been exploring options that involved creating a single structure that housed both inlet vents and outlet vents,” Heatherwick wrote. “It made a large bulky object that dominated the public square around it, reducing it to little more than a corridor. As this was a sensitive location near St. Paul’s, we decided to make it our priority to shrink the visible mass of the vent structure to a minimum.”"
© D.Godliman