For this month's London Design Festival, Case Furniture will hold Architects' Visions for London, a showcase of architectural models that each convey a new vision for the city of London.
Encompassing designs for contemporary living, transport and public spaces, the exhbition will feature models from leading practices including Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and 2015 Sterling Prize winners AHMM.
The models in the showcase range from recently completed buildings such as the Canaletto Building by UNStudio, to those currently under construction, including the entrance to the Tottenham Court Road by Stanton Williams. Also included are more visionary projects, like Frost Flowers, the floating ice rinks for the River Thames imagined by NBBJ, and the wayfinding Totem Pole envisaged by Tate Harmer as a way to connect the local community with creatives working in Hackney's 'Makers' Mile'.
The model projects on display vary in size; from grand masterplans such as Patel Taylor's White City reinvention, to single dwellings like De Beauvoir House, a sensitively extended family home by Cousins & Cousins.
The showcase will examine the opportunities that exist to renew and rebuild our city today in micro model form, encompassing all aspects of London life - with models including bridges, a school, a treatment facility, train stations and a museum and gallery.
Architects' Visions for London will also include a reproduction of 'London 2066', a painting by the late Dame Zaha Hadid which explores London's urban character. The work presents a most radical shake-up of the metropolis in both diagrammatic and pictorial terms, and was created at the culmination of a study of the open spaces, rail, road, water and air routes and borough layout of London, depicting a restructuring of the entire plan of the city.
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