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Description: | Curved seating covered in mosaic designs, around external walls of youth centre on corner site. Reminiscent of Gaudi's design for Park Guell in Barcelona. The seats curve in and out and where the seating is furthest out from the wall, the space behind is filled with earth and planted with shrubs. The seat, back and base are all moulded in one continuous structure along two walls of the building. On the Rathmore Road side the continuous seat breaks and two double-sided benches with backs, in the same style, project from the wall. The whole structure is covered in small ceramic mosaic tiles forming pictures which change along the length. From the west it depicts: faces and hands, people talking to each other; an explosion, flames in mostly red and orange, and also what looks like a detonator or tap and a tunnel; a cornfield, red poppies, blue cornflowers and corn stalks and ears; blue/green water, the sea? Two benches at right angles to the wall have the design all over them; one is a boat or hovercraft, the other a motorbike with GMW on it. The construction can be seen where damage has occurred. Wire mesh shaping covered by concrete, with tiles set into cement. | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Greenwich Mural Workshop | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6979... | Go to resource |
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