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Turner Prize-Winner to Transform Seven Sisters Tube Entrance
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The newly announced Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble will be unleashing their creativity on Exit B at Seven Sisters tube over the course of nine months in 2016.
The collective's mission is to rejuvenate the station's above-ground entrance on Seven Sister's Road, just up from Wickes. The group say they will be taking inspiration from subterranean geology to inform their above ground work.
Ceramicists, station staff and local residents will be invited to take part in activities including tile making and ceramic glazing which will go on to inform the final design for the station’s approach.
The collective is set to move into a disused shop in the underground station entrance at the start of next year.
Mathew Leung from Assemble said: ‘The commission for exit B at Seven Sisters Tube station should be great fun. We’re excited by the opportunity it presents to experiment with material processes, play with the classic form of the Tube tile and adopt an incremental approach that builds on the existing character of the site.’
Eleanor Pinfield, head of Art on the Underground, added: ‘Assemble have a lively and unique approach. This social art project on the Victoria line will combine elements of architecture, function and green design, resulting in work that is useful but also joyful. We are delighted to be working with them at Seven Sisters.’
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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They've done some wonderful work, for example at Blackhorse Road. A piece of work the did under a flyover in Hackney (a kind of fairytale house) ended up involving something like 40,000 people either putting the piece together or coming to use it. Great news.
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True Velo, but it may be so fabulous that people demand that beautification of that particular entrance is made permanent. One can dream anyway!
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Permalink Reply by Velo on
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Indeed one can dream, I was mainly referring to Crossrail 2 which if goes ahead, will demolish the existing site. Not that I mind this, it's just that after seeing the new Tottenham Court Road Station, I fear that corporate blandness may well prevail.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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"just up from Wickes" <- so they should have plenty of tilers with some time on their hands.
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