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Looking south along elevationRendered imageRendered perspectiveArtist's impression.
Looking North.Looking South along glazed facade.Section drawn through travellator hallTravellator hall
The travellator hall. Art on the move.Animated environment. Canvas 2 & 1 from inside the store.A cathedral of commerceCanvas 1
Climbing inside the art. Mel views work in progress during creation of canvas 1Canvases 3, 4 & 5Detail from canvas 3.Detail from canvas 2
Detail from canvas 1. Etched hand-blown glass, stain and vitreous enamelMel Howse - work in progressCanvas 8 from inside the Learning CentreDetail from canvas 5
Detail from canvas 5Canvases 1 & 2Detail canvas 3Electric vista.
 
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Sainsbury's Supermarket CMK


Location: Milton Keynes, Witan Gate, C4.1 CMK
Architect: Q2 Architects
Size: 500sqm glazed facade
Installed: Spring 2008 by MTW Architectural
Description: Enamelled and toughened glass with antique glass and etched surface.
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A commission to place public art at the heart of this mixed use retail/office/residential development saw a design concept applied to the principal elevation of this new-build Sainsbury's store; a crescendo of vivid juicy colour stretching across all 500sqm of the glazed facade.

This one hundred metre long glazing line to the west elevation encloses a seven metre tall two-storey travelator atrium and the entire end of the retail floor. A vibrant palette of reds and golds serves to animate the elevation in keeping with the architectural & artistic concept.

In the true spirit of public art, this is a piece for those who might rarely visit an art gallery but who do go shopping. It lives within a much-used functional environment that makes it accessible to all, within and without, and at all hours of the day.

 

 

 

 
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