Cracking work by the Nottingham Scale Rule team for getting this beautiful structure up. It’s taken a lot of hard work to get to this point so well done to everyone involved for sticking the course. Particular thanks also to Hanson Plywood for supplying all the material.
(Photo’s courtesy of Leonard design)
It certainly is! and doesn’t it make mighty fine chairs?
Who’d have thought a load of old cardboard, bottles and sticky tape would create so much fun? (everyone I hear you answer).
Well done to everyone who helped out (Simona + Pauline + Veronica + Annabel) and to Open City for organising the Open House Families event and to all the kids who turned up and had so much fun making chairs. For more info check out the project page where you can scroll through for some home improvement inspiration.
This years NGD pavilion is officially open for business! Hopefully you can all make it down to Clerkenwell Design Week to see the marvel for itself. Those carefully painted pink ends, cute feet and the stretch of fabric flashing across all combine to create the 8th wonder of the world.
And just look at those happy and relieved faces of our volunteers who made such an amazing contribution.
We have an early release preview!
This year a timber lattice takes a ‘casting’ of the St John’s Gate. After Clerkwenwell Design week, the frame will be remounted in the nearby St James Churchyard to relocate a trace of St John’s Gate into a new, more publicly accessible context.
Like all retiring pavilions, Past/present/future dreamt of nothing else but returning to the wild to be with the birds, bees, plants and trees. And so it’s dream has been realised, finding a new home and new friends in the rolling hills of Kew Gardens. For a limited time… After which it’ll be put back in storage hopefully to one day see the outside world again.
It’s back! by popular demand Past/Present/Future has found a new home and in Kew Gardens no less! After 8 months in storage the cobwebs have been blown off and it’s been reassembled for the Botanical garden’s Easter Festival.
Be sure to get yourselves down from the 6th April – 20th April to see the beauty (along with all the other cool stuff at Kew).
And thanks to Jack at Kew, the Pirates and and last years NGD team for their hard work in putting it back together.
… the Scale Rulers back? You guessed it folks, the triangulated straw kit is coming out of retirement for another twirl. Only difference is that this time we’ve got 100,000 straws to build with.
On Saturday the 26th and 2nd Feb Scale Rule will be running workshops for the National Saturday Club at the Tate exchange making sculptures from straws. Check out our page for more info on the project (and rest assured, after the event we’ll have photos of more than just Dan’s lunch).
It’s gone! After 4 weeks of being lunched upon, and confused for a construction accident, the pipes have gone on back to where they came from. The circle of life.
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We were delighted to be joined by students, volunteers and organisers last Sunday for the official ribbon cutting launch opening bonanza of A Tree Come True.
Peter Murray gave a lovely speech; the team who’s concept design was selected gave a lovely insight into their design process; and Phil and Laura aimlessly waffled about how happy they were that everyone was involved. It was all rather charming.
However maybe best to read about it on the Broadgate website, with some nice pictures too.
Many thanks again to the City Centre and Broadgate for making everyone’s tree come true this Christmas October.
After a delightful rainy weekend, a Tree Come True has finally been installed as part of Generation Pop-up!
Many thanks to all the students who took part in the build, expertly organised by The City Centre, our invaluable helpers from the fabulous Transitions.
The estates team at Broadgate have been unbelievably helpful, and we’re happy to have been able to reuse a spot of local site waste from SRM, too.
A Tree Come True will be up for your enjoying pleasure until the end of October, so enjoy it while you can!
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