Major awards for Northala Fields - Europe’s largest land art
Date uploaded: November 19, 2009
Northala Fields, Europe’s largest example of land art created by artist Peter Fink and architect Igor Marko has recently won a number of major awards:
- UK Landscape institute Winner of the best design over 5Ha
- HW Landscape Amenity 2009 Winner for the Outstanding Commitment to working with, and involving, the community in the pursuit of green space goals
- World Architecture Award 2009 Finalist
The Northala Fields project located in London is large scale and monumental. Four great mounds dominate the skyline, one with a distinctive spiral path, and form the centre piece of the site. They rise up out of what was once a barren, windswept, inaccessible tract of land adjacent to a major highway, besieged by the constant rumble of traffic and exhaust from millions of vehicles flowing into and out of London’s central core.
The mounds are at the heart of a dynamic design developed to create a park for the 21st century at no cost to the tax payer. The funding of the £ 5.5 million park is unique generating both the income as well as the material to construct the mounds from the deposition of 1.5 million cubic meters of clean construction spoil making the park; for example; the final resting place of the Wembley Towers. The recycling of this amount of spoil has delivered a real shrinking of the ecological footprint of London by eliminating 160000 lorry journeys over 200 miles to outlying tips.
Northala Fields is a park that incorporates fully accessible fishing ponds, two children’s playgrounds, a marshland reserve, a model boating pond, cycle paths, open playing fields, and the four giant mounds. Yet, despite all these areas of different activity the site design flows together and creates the sense of being one harmonious park as well as Europe’s largest example of land-art.
Further information:
The artist Peter Fink and architect Igor Marko are partners in FoRM associates a London-based design practice that looks holistically at the ‘livability’ of 21st century cities, creating places that are better to live in, work in and enjoy. FoRM associates are urbanists in the widest sense, working collaboratively to fuse urban design and landscape architecture with ecology, environmental design, masterplanning, architecture, branding, lighting, arts, media and engineering. FoRM’s hallmark lies in its ability to design functional and people orientated public realms that are inspiring both in their design and in reality.
www.formassociates.eu
Further information and images from:
Rick Rowbotham
FoRM Associates
154 Narrow street
London E14 8BP
T: 0207 5373654
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