DARE; Cardiff Bay

This is a project focusing on coastal regeneration my site was Cardiff Bay in Wales. Over the last ten years the face of the bay has been transformed from an industrial waste land to the jewel in the crown of the Welch capital. Our brief was to dare to do something different with the already regenerated site. Here are a few slides from the presentation I put together.

Volume
24 November 2006 - 28 January 2007
Admission free

The V&A and PlayStation present VolumeCreated by United Visual Artists and one point six
A luminous interactive installation has transformed the V&A's John Madejski Garden this winter. Volume is a sculpture of light and sound - an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the garden.
Volume responds spectacularly to human movement, creating a series of audio-visual experiences. Step inside and see your actions at play with the energy fields throughout the space, triggering a brilliant display of light and sound.

The NLA (New London Architecture) office is just of Tottomham Court Road and at the moment there is an exhibition to show the new projects been under taken in the capital in the next ten years or so. The exhibition includes a scale model of the whole of the capital stretching from the Thames barrier to Battersea its free to have a look around and I thought is was worth going just to see model.

Jubilee Park
Jubilee Park lies in the heart of Carnary Wharf the garden has been created as a haven for the workers. The designers of the park were Peter Wirtz Architects. I felt it quiet a strange place very clean and civilized but having just come from Mile End Park I'm not surprised I felt this. The parks lay out is based around two large raised water features with areas of grass and seating areas. The middle of the park also acts as a thoroughfare to a tube station and shopping centre that sits underneath the park.

Mile End Park

Mile End Park as the name suggest is in Mile End and as far as I can see has proved to be one of the biggest wastes of money. Costing £30 million its by far the most expensive park ever built in London. A combination of poomanagementtt and certainn members of the local community have left areas of the park derelictd and covered in graffitity.

mile end park

Focus Week
Conservation with the started on a damp morning in November, we arrived in a pot holed car park on the edge of Hounslow Heath. Soon after arriving the BTCV van turned up with wheel barrows and spades hanging off it and we were lead to a section of the heath that they had been working on the week previous. Our task for the day was to clear a section of gorse and Broom so the Heather can thive in habitat. In the past sheep grazed on the land keeping the gorse and Broom in check.

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