Halcyon haze.The Imperial Clock, by Kittie Jones, Dong Han, Fiona Pender, Luke McClelland and Greg Robertson, was the unanimous winner of this year's RMJM Award for Art and Architecture; an annual award scheme that challenges students from Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is an art school in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing tertiary education in art and design disciplines for over two thousand students. ECA is located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, overlooking the Grassmarket, and not far from Edinburgh to collaborate on a four-week design competition. Students from the schools of architecture, drawing and painting, and sculpture were given the choice of three landmark structures in the port of Leith (left) and were encouraged to propose adaptations that would explore notions of import and export. With nearly 130 students, 26 teams participated, producing results that ranged from specific deliverable object-based proposals to more elusive, yet highly entertaining, speculations. This winning scheme sat somewhere in between, with a proposal that responded imaginatively to the creative re-use of one of the docks' most powerful ruins (the Imperial Grain Silo silo, watertight and airtight structure for making and storing silage. Silos vary in form from a covered pit, such as was used by the early Romans, to the modern storage tower, dating from the 19th cent. ) and to Leith's specific place within the city. By synchronising Noun 1. synchronising - an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing readjustment, adjustment, registration - the act of adjusting something to match a standard with Edinburgh's famous one o'clock gun, initiated as a means of giving an accurate time check to ships in Leith when the Nelson Tower time ball could not be seen, the Imperial Clock's 100m water sculpture would provide a regular visual spectacle that could be seen from afar. While this proposal was arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. the most successful combination of team skills, what was particularly impressive throughout the majority of the presentations was the evidence of seamless collaboration. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At a time when public art is rightly coming under increased scrutiny, hopefully putting an end to the mutual disservice dis·ser·vice n. A harmful action; an injury. disservice Noun a harmful action Noun 1. that is dealt by the assumption that 'art' can be bought in to improve 'architecture', with this initiative the boundaries between the arts were virtually indistinguishable. Throughout their crit-format presentations, it was virtually impossible to identify the chosen discipline of each team member, giving judges the equal pleasure of hearing student architects speak with confidence about the less tangible qualities of our environment, and painters and sculptors This is a partial list of sculptors. A
The winning entries and a selection of runners up will be exhibited at the RIAS RIAS Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland RIAS Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (Canada) RIAS Rundfunk Im Amerikanischen Sektor RIAS Research Institute for Advanced Studies Gallery in February 2006. For more information visit www.rias.org.uk. |
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