RMJM Art Commissioning
Art and Architecture
RMJM & Peter McCaughey: Oswald Street Residential Development, Glasgow
Glasgow
August 07
RMJM's urban residential project, spanning the city block from Oswald Street to Robertson Street, in Glasgow's city centre it creates a new pedestrian thoroughfare and opens up a new east-west connection in this part of the city. Artist Peter McCaughey was commissioned to join the team...
“The Oswald Street project offers interesting challenges in creating an environment that addresess the shift between fully public, semi-public and private space. The point of transition from one moment, place or state to another is a recurring interest within my work. How might a new development like this one contribute to a 'trace memory network': a means of orientating ourselves in our urban environment? I hope that my line of light might become an enduring means of mapping the route east to west through this part of the city.”
Peter McCaughey
Artist
Art and Architecture
RMJM & Peter McCaughey: Oswald Street Residential Development, Glasgow
Glasgow
August 07
RMJM's urban residential project, spanning the city block from Oswald Street to Robertson Street, in Glasgow's city centre it creates a new pedestrian thoroughfare and opens up a new east-west connection in this part of the city.
Artist Peter McCaughey was commissioned to join the team in 2003. His art practice concerns site specific engagement in urban settings, his work often dealing with the 'legibility' of cities for pedestrians. His resulting proposal quite literally cuts through the hard landscaping, it is radical but beautiful: a fine line of light, both dividing the courtyard and leading pedestrians through the space.
Paul Stallan, architect and European Design Director of RMJM comments: "Peter's work is about urban change, decay and how people use the city. It is cinematic - sometimes literally. He has worked at extremes in terms of scale, from the pavement detail to the vast projection and performance."
His work at Oswald Street reinforces the project's design intention of cutting a new route through the city centre block. The linear light installation echoes the very first sketch concept that, as architects, we drew over the site plan for our client to consider. The art captures the essential spirit of the project and the excitement of creating a new perspective through this historic piece of city fabric."
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