public art

Windwand

Ron Arad
Sculpture
Red Carbon Fibre
50 metre cm
2000

Westferry Circus
London E14 8RH
Tube Canary Wharf; DLR Canary Wharf

Owner Canary Wharf Plc

WindWand and Big Blue (1999), Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, Canada Square, London. Windward: 50m tall tapering sculpture designed to sway in the wind.
Both display structural ingenuity, stretching materials and structures to their limits. The swaying in the wind of WindWand forced the engineer to work in a different way to the usual. Rather than being constructed on the site like a building.

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