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Taikoo Place

Commissioner: Swire Properties Limited
Location: 1 Taikoo Place, Hing Kong
Status: Completed January 2019
Photography: miriamandtom | Andras Kare | Nicola Gnesi

Inspiration was taken from the historical layers of the site, firstly the area where the building is located has a Chinese name, tsak yue chung, which relates to a small stream where crucian carp were harvested by the locals. Its name in English, aptly named Quarry Bay, relates to its time as an area quarried for granite to supply building material to the developing city to the west. The design reflects the site’s connection to water and its qualities of softness, power and reflectance; and that of the quarry with its qualities of strata, layering, cutting and carving.

Secondly Swire Properties’s history as sea faring traders and the story of John Samuel Swire who arrived in Quarry Bay in the late 1800’s to develop and expand his company’s sugar and shipping divisions. To this day, Quarry Bay remains the helm of Swire Properties, hosting their HQ. This story reinforced the important and powerful connection to water as well as bringing in the ideas of a vessel that transports and contains, and one that evokes movement, progression and tradition.

The furniture elements were produced in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy by Henraux Spa and with stone consultation from EV Surfaces.

Skyscape

Commissioner: Moynihan Station Development Corporation
Location: West End Concourse Penn Station, New York
Status: Completed June 2017
Photography: Andras Kare

Skyscape is an animated voluminous sky scene that drifts across the ceiling at the new west end concourse of Penn Station New York.

Light is what sets our body clock and determines our daily existence. The sky is the symbol of the daily occurrence which lends itself to create an atmospheric contrast to the routine and subterranean context of the station. It provides a tranquil space for escapism and daydreaming.

The new concourse was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) as the first phase of the redevelopment of the station and the Farley building. The new concourse provides access to 17 of the station’s 21 tracks and will link the future Moynihan Train Hall to Penn Station, for the 2 million passengers that pass through on a daily basis.

The light Lab designed and manufactured the 258 edge lit spectra glass fins that make up Skyscape’s canvas.

Skyscape brings a bright, fresh and futuristic atmosphere to the commuter experience in the new west end concourse.

Pattern Shift

Commissioner: Pacific Place
Location: Hong Kong
Status: January 2016
Photography: Andras Kare, miriamandtom

Pattern Shift is a permanent custom-made LED lighting feature installation commissioned for Pacific Place, Hong Kong’s leading retail destination.

The installation explores and articulates the layers, textures, and patterns used in high end fashion textiles through an animated and evolving geometry.

Its physical manifestation and content mirrors the state-of-the-art character of Pacific Place, which was refurbished by Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 2011, and houses some of the world’s leading retail and luxury brands over 650,000 square feet on four storeys.

The installation is positioned throughout the entire interior space giving the feeling of being under a flowing fabric of shifting patterns.

Wonder Skin

Commissioner: Beltane & Pop
Location: London UK
Status: Completed September 2015
Photography: miriamandtom, Andras Kare, ico Design

Wonder Skin was commissioned as the shell for speciality food company Beltane & Pop’s Southbank store. The skin expresses the whimsical and celebratory mood of brand developed by ico Design. From ice pops and slushes to hot chocolates and pastries, Beltane & Pop mixes childhood favourites with a playful immersive experience well suited for its Southbank location in London.

Inspired by late 19th century glass reflectors, which were used in retail window displays, Wonder Skin is a decorative fascinator and a high performance lighting instrument.

Wonder Skin was designed to ensure the LEDs are visible in bright daylight. Using a reflective coating over a multi-faceted surface, colour is clearly perceptible in direct sunlight. At night it becomes an immersive, saturated colour experience, defining the unit and its immediate surrounding as a desirable destination.

Cubitt Wall

Commissioner: Argent
Location: Lewis Cubitt Square, King’s Cross London UK
Status: Completed March 2015
Photography: John Sturrock and miriamandtom

Cubitt Wall is a temporary sculpture at Cubitt Square, a new public space built at King’s Cross London. It is 150m long undulating surface, which dips and rises to create an arresting backdrop to an urban environment in development.

The traditional position of a construction wall is defensive. Cubitt Wall challenges this attitude by setting a visual language, which enables a new typology of public space, encouraging the public to freely interpret, inhabit and occupy it.

Cubitt Wall is the first manifestation of an ongoing project by miriamandtom addressing how the public realm is effected by large scale redevelopment programmes and why creative temporary interventions are essential to initiate dialogue between those who develop our cities and those who live and work in them.

Staying honest to its purpose, Cubitt Wall was built using standard hoarding construction techniques and materials.

The wall is intended to be in place for six years. To date, it has been used as an open air gallery, cinema, performance space, football goal and the setting for other organised and impromptu activities.

Pipette

Commissioner: Argent
Location: Kings Cross Subway Tunnel, One St Pancras Square, London UK
Status: Completed June 2014
Photography: Andras Kare / John Sturrock

Pipette is a permanent artwork in a new pedestrian tunnel constructed to connect King’s Cross St Pancras Station, one of London’s busiest transport hubs, to its burgeoning local community of students, residents, workers and visitors.

The artwork embodies the colourful tapestry of the location’s rich history. It was the epicentre of the Industrial Revolution and the meeting point of road, rail and river. During the 20th century King’s Cross lost its purpose and became synonymous with seed and vice. It is currently half way through a 25-year regeneration programme, which is redefining its place and purpose in Greater London.

As the artwork’s name suggests, its conceptual framework is simple: it pics colours from historical and recent photographs of King’s Cross and re-interprets them into 25 new colour compositions. Subtle by nature and movement, the colours intermittently intersect and overlay each other in both directions of the tunnel.

The cycle of display is set to ensure that each visitor encounters at least one compositional transition in their journey through the tunnel. Pipette intends to offer each viewer a moment of calm before entering the bustling community of King’s Cross or the rush of the metro system.

Pipette is a living archive of King’s Cross, symbolising its passing of time and its changing of place. Its digital form represents the contemporaneity of its location, informing both its artistic conception and its physical manifestation.

Pipette features as part of the Lumiere London 2016.

Colour Cloud

Commissioner: Haukeland University Hospital
Location: Bergen, Norway
Status: March 2017
Photography: Andras Kare, Paal Hoff/ KORO, miriamandtom

Following an international competition with 221 applicants from 36 countries, miriamandtom are the successful recipients of the commission to develop a site specific artwork for the new Haukeland University Hospital Center for Mental and Physical Health for Children and Youth in Bergen, Norway.

Colour Cloud is a sculptural light-based artwork, designed to enliven the experience for patients, staff and visitors of the institution. Through an interactive system, it will visualise the emotional state of its users and the seasonal characteristics of the building’s dynamic fjord setting.

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