RMJM Art Commissioning
Master Planning
Stephen Hurrel: QE3 Festival Park
Glasgow
October 07
In 2002, one of the UK's leading residential developers, Persimmon Homes, began the development of a significant new 14 storey apartment building on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow. The QE3 building at Festival Park lies directly south of a new road bridge connecting the west end of the...
“Engaging with artists and arts organisations to develop quality environments, increased environmental sustainability, more effective community interaction and expanded opportunities for economic development is now recognised as key to business as well as public sector success. We are pleased to have supported the Festival Park Project with Stephen Hurrel and Persimmon Homes through a New Partners investment”
Jeanie Scott
Arts and Business Scotland, Business Development Manager
Master Planning
Stephen Hurrel: QE3 Festival Park
Glasgow
October 07
In 2002, one of the UK's leading residential developers, Persimmon Homes, began the development of a significant new 14 storey apartment building on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow. The QE3 building at Festival Park lies directly south of a new road bridge connecting the west end of the city with the south. The creation of the new bridge makes the building and its associated landscaping a very public project.
From the project's inception, RMJM sought to match the quality and ambition of the architecture with an art commission that went beyond the architecture to further articulate ideas about the site and context. In 2005, artist Stephen Hurrel was commissioned to create a new work in response to the architecture.
Stephen Hurrel's work is site specific, often using light, time-based and interactive media. For Festival Park he worked with the massing and detail to create a work that affects the top of the building's ‘fin', the façade and the exterior landscaping immediately in front of the new bridge.
The work animates the façade and landscaping, drawing attention at night, whilst at the same time being strong in its own right and making subtle reference to shipping and navigational imagery.
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