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Silica

Fact Sheet

Title of Project

Silica

Artist(s)

Wolfgang and Heron

Commissioner

North Somerset Council

Commenced

early 2005

Completed

spring 2007

Location

Weston-super-Mare

Scope

the sculpture is 4m at its widest, and has a tapering 30m spire

Materials

Bath stone-coloured, glass-reinforced concrete on a steel shell, stainless steel, LED lamps, blown-glass prisms

Budget

(for public art element) £398,600

Funding sources

Regional Development Agency, Single Regeneration Budget, Weston Tourism, NSC capital funds, Weston Town Council

Summary Artists’ Brief

an iconic structure or innovative and dynamic artwork that will dominate a newly-formed public space and act as a focal point, night and day; and incorporating electronic information points, a retail kiosk and possibly a bus shelter.

Project Manager (ie public art) Lesley Green and Diane Hatton

Other Professionals

Partners, Price and Myers, Gravity Design, Macaulay Sinclair, Daleside Shopfitters, Trent Concrete, Goodmans (fabricators)

Contacts for further information

Mark Luck, Project Co-ordinator (Urban Design), North Somerset Council

[email protected]

Wolfgang and Heron (Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron)

www.wolfgangandheron.com

Conran & Partners

www.conranandpartners.com

Gravity Design

www.gravitydesign.uk.com

Price and Myers 3D Structural Engineering

www.pricemyers.com

Liz Milner

[email protected]

Lesley Greene and Diane Hatton

Art Consultants

[email protected]