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Contemporary British Architectural Practice, London, England, UK
26 Feb 2017
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Motion sculpture: English National Ballet, London, England, UK
This is a motion sculpture at the new home of the English National Ballet in East London.
An assemblage of three delicate elements slowly transforms itself playing out a graceful balletic motion in the square.

The sculpture consists of three, twenty-metre-long carbon fibre spars, connected via rotating axis points, enabling the sculpture to move in a subtle dance-like motion.
The project was developed in collaboration with robotics specialists, aerodynamic engineers and specialist art fabricators.
The practice has made a short animation of the sculpture which you can view by clicking the link below:

Motion Sculpture at the new home of the English National Ballet from Ian McChesney on Vimeo
Recent Designs by McChesney Architects
‘Memorial to those lost at sea, Valentia Island’, Republic of Ireland

27 Feb 2013 – This is a recent proposal for a memorial to those lost at sea off the Island of Valentia off the Republic of Ireland.
About the piece:

We see mooring bollards at quay-sides all over the world, universal symbols of travel, solemn monuments to journeys. They are the last land-based object the sailor touches on departure and the first he-or-she touches on arrival.

image : Ian McC...