The file contains briefing notes and description of the project and correspondence relating to the development of the project.
Specifications and technical drawings by Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners, March 2001. Also includes correspondence relating to the erection of Bill Woodrow's sculpture.
All minutes are closed for 30 years.\nThere was also a Development Committee but there are no minutes relating to it.\nIncludes incomplete minutes and papers of the Steering Committee, Statue Panel, the Communications Committee, RSA Meetings and World Squares for All. In chronological order.
Correspondence, press releases (from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport)and a Report by Sir John Mortimer's Advisory Group (Vacant Plinth Advisory Group) on - the future of the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Briefly introduces the project and the artists sculptures.
Most of the images relate to the Fourth Plinth Debate held on 24/1/2000.
Ian Hunter was commissioned by Rossendale Borough Council and the Bacup and Stacksteads Estate Management Board to consult and carry out work on this improvement scheme for a local housing estate. The project incorporated features and benches sculpted in stone and wall, pavement and bench carvings. Ian Hunter worked in close collaboration with landscape architect Nick Bishop, faciliting the integral involvement of local residents and school children, enabling their individual expression in the proposed works. Client: Rossendale Borough Council. Award value £2,275.\n
Tom Wood was selected through an open competition to collaborate with Allen Todd Architects on the refurbishment of the bar area of the Square Chapel in Halifax. The Square Chapel has been repaired and restored incorporating innovative contemporary design and is an important arts venue in the town centre. Client: Square Chapel Building Trust. Award value £4,500.
David Pearl. working with architects Colwyn Foulkes & Partners, produced designs for a large contemporary stained glass scheme for this aids hospice in Brighton. Pearl states 'Properly used stained glass become inseparable from the intentions and the fabric of the architecture....' Regretfully, due to financial constraints, the designs were not implemented. Client: West Sussex County Council. Award value £4,500.
Jeff Bell designed and considered locations for architectural glass in the refurbishment of Ipswich Central Library. Bell worked with Suffolk Council Architects Department on designs to make glass a key feature of the buildng. Client: Suffolk County Council. Award value £4,000.
Ray Smith identified opportunities for specially-created works of art and craft for the new Dawlish Leisure Centre in Devon. Working with John Dann and Graham Hughes of Teignbridge District Council Architects Department, Smith was able to incorporate his ideas into the fabric of the biulding in an integrated an unobtrusive fashion. He designed a work of 'floating' figures within the brickwork, a wall sculpture in the bar area as well as interior and exterior signs. Client: Teignbridge District Council. Award value £4,000.
Peter Fink collaborated with landscape architects LDC Ltd on the Dundee Wharf walkway in the Isle of Dogs, London. The walkway is the first of several bridges commissioned by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) for the Docklands area and extends the pedestrian and cycle routes from the City and Limehouse basin. Fink worked with the design team on the detailed design solutions of the walkway, with a particular emphasis on lighting. Completed in 1994. Client: LDDC. Award value £4,000.
David Watkins worked with Ron Smith of Peter Currie Architects on the design of external areas of this public housing development in North London. Watkins proposed an arbour, seating, screens and planting. The housing development was completed in 1995. Although designs were completed and fees paid, the artist's ideas were not incorporated into the development due to lack of funding. Client: Peter Currie Architects. Award value £5,000.