Who designed the sculpture ArcelorMittel Orbit, located in London's Olympic Park?
"Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond of engineering Group Arup. Announced on 31 March 2010, it was expected to be completed by December 2011. The project came about after Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell decided in 2008 that the Olympic Park needed ""something extra"". Designers were asked for ideas for an ""Olympic tower"" at least high, and ""Orbit"" was the unanimous choice from proposals considered by a nine-person advisory panel. Kapoor and Balmond believed that ""Orbit"" represented a radical advance in the architectural field of combining sculpture and structural engineering, and that it combined both stability"
"ArcelorMittal Orbit The ArcelorMittal ""Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or its original name, Orbit"") is a 114.5-metre-high sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, assisting in the post-Olympics regeneration of the Stratford area. Sited between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, it allows visitors to view the whole Olympic Park from two observation platforms. ""Orbit"" was designed by Turner-Prize winning artist Sir"
"Coimbra (2006) and a $400m mixed-use development in Asia. The Orbit The ArcelorMittal Orbit is designed by Balmond and Anish Kapoor. It is a 120m high sculpture designed for the 2012 Olympics in Stratford, London. Balmond also collaborated with Kapoor on Marsyas a sculpture which was displayed in Tate Modern Turbine Hall (2002), and also co-designed the ""Tees Valley Giants"" art installations with Kapoor. Other key works by Balmond include a radical masterplan for Battersea Power Station (2006) and the Victoria & Albert Museum extension with Daniel Libeskind (1996). Cecil Balmond Cecil Balmond OBE is a Sri Lankan–British designer, artist,"
"sponsor, with ""Orbit"", the original working title for Kapoor and Balmond's design. The ArcelorMittal ""Orbit"" closed after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, while the South Plaza area of the Park (in which ""Orbit"" is positioned) underwent reconstruction for its long-term legacy use as a public outdoor space. It re-opened to the public on 5 April 2014. The structure incorporates the world's tallest and longest (178 metres) tunnel slide, designed by Carsten Höller. The idea was originally envisioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation as a way to attract more visitors to the tower. The slide includes transparent sections to"
"Balmond's ""Orbit"" was announced as the winner on 31 March 2010. According to ""The Guardian"", Orbit was chosen from a short list of three, beating a design by Antony Gormley and one by the architectural firm Caruso St John. According to ""The Times"", Gormley's design was a steel colossus titled ""Olympian Man"", a trademark piece of a statue of himself, rejected mainly on the grounds of its projected cost, estimated at £40 million. Johnson and Jowell agreed to issue a commission for ""Orbit"" in partnership with Mittal after it was chosen by a 9 person advisory panel brought together by"
"structure"". Kapoor and Balmond stated that their interests have blurred and crossed over into each other's fields, since they had first begun working together in 2002 on Kapoor's ""Marsyas"" installation in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern. As well as ""Orbit"", in 2010 Kapoor and Balmond were also working on the Tees Valley Giants, a public art project in northern England. The sculpture was engineered by the Global engineer Arup who developed the overall geometry, structural design and the building services including the lighting displayed extensively during the Olympic games. Architectural input was by Ushida Findlay Architects(Kathryn Findlay) as"
"fitting monument for the 2012 Olympics, billed as a 'world's first sustainable Olympics'. Despite this criticism, it has been included in the new 2015 design of the British passport. The advisory panel consisted of: In announcing the winning design, Johnson thanked the Greater London Authority, the Olympic Delivery Authority and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, as well as David McAlpine and Philip Dilley of Arup, and Sir Robin Wales and Jules Pipe for their involvement and support in the project. ArcelorMittal Orbit The ArcelorMittal ""Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or its"
"""the Bean"") in Chicago's Millennium Park; ""Sky Mirror"", exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; ""Temenos"", at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; ""Leviathan"", at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ""ArcelorMittal Orbit"", commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. In 2017 Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards. Kapoor received a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. In 2012, he was awarded the"
"and instability in a work that visitors can engage with and experience via an incorporated spiral walkway. It has been both praised and criticised for its bold design, and has especially received criticism as a vanity project of questionable lasting use or merit as a public art project. The project was expected to cost £19.1 million, with £16 million coming from Britain's then richest man, the steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman of the ArcelorMittal steel company, and the balance of £3.1 million coming from the London Development Agency. The name ""ArcelorMittal Orbit"" combines the name of Mittal's company, as chief"
"Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, in London, England, United Kingdom, is a sporting complex built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the Paralympics, situated to the east of the city adjacent to the Stratford City development. It contains the athletes' Olympic Village and several of the sporting venues including the London Stadium and London Aquatics Centre, besides the London Olympics Media Centre. The park is overlooked by the ArcelorMittal Orbit, an observation tower and Britain's largest piece of public art. It was simply called Olympic Park during the Games but was later renamed to commemorate the Diamond"
"the Olympics 2012. In 2003, the composition ""Lamentate"" (""Homage to Anish Kapoor and his sculpture ""Marsyas"""") for piano and orchestra by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt was premiered in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. Marsyas (sculpture) Marsyas is a 150-meter-long, ten storey high sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond. It was on show at Tate Modern gallery, London in 2003 and was commissioned as part of the Unilever Series. ""Marsyas"" was the third in a series of commissions for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and the first to make use of the entire space. Anish Kapoor is renowned for his"
"of the steel used for the sculpture was made of recycled steel in the Esch Belval steel plant in Luxembourg. On 14 March 2011, with construction already underway on the main pylon, ""The One Show"" broadcast footage of the on-site status of project, and profiled the four-man team putting it together, comprising two steel erectors, a crane operator and a site foreman. As an observation tower, ""Orbit"" has two indoor viewing platforms on two levels, with each level having the capacity for 150 people. In comparison to Orbit's 114.5 metre height, the nearby Olympic Stadium is high. According to the"
"refers to Marsyas, the satyr in Greek mythology, who was flayed alive by the god Apollo. ""The Guardian"" called it “the biggest sculpture at Tate Modern and probably the biggest in any art gallery in the world.” Kapoor and Balmond have collaborated on other art projects. They jointly designed ""Temenos"", ‘a gently twisted tube on a vast butterfly net’ which appeared in June, located in the UK’s Teesside. It is the first of five giant sculpture which will form in the biggest public art work in the world. Balmond and Kapoor have also designed ArcelorMittal Orbit which will open for"
"Nicholas Serota, a member of the design panel, said that ""Orbit"" was a tower with an interesting twist, with ""the energy you might traditionally associate with this type of structure but in a surprisingly female form"". According to Mittal, ""Orbit"" was already the working title, as it symbolised a continuous journey, a creative representation of the ""extraordinary physical and emotional effort"" that Olympians undertake in their continuous drive to do better. It was decided to keep this as the final name and prepend ArcelorMittal (as the project supporter). On the public announcement of the design Johnson conceded that it might"
"role of leaving a lasting legacy and transformed landscape in east London. During the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Joe Townsend (a Royal Marine and double amputee) delivered the Paralympic flame into Olympic Stadium via a zipline that was attached to the top of ""Orbit"". In 2016 a permanent slide designed by German artist Carsten Höller was added to the sculpture. The slide is reported to be the world's tallest and longest tunnel slide at 178 metres. Though it was originally reported that admission to the slide would cost around £5, the general adult price for entry to"
"scale. In 2010, ""Turning the World Upside Down, Jerusalem"" was commissioned and installed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The sculpture is described as a ""16-foot tall polished-steel hourglass"" and it ""reflects and reverses the Jerusalem sky and the museum's landscape, a likely reference to the city's duality of celestial and earthly, holy and profane"". Also in June, Kapoor's ""Orbit"" was announced as the winning proposal for an artwork for the 2012 Olympic Games. The Greater London Authority selected Kapoor's sculpture from a shortlist of five artists as the permanent artwork for the Olympic Park. At 115 metres tall, ""Orbit"""
"said that his early concept for the project was something more modest than ""Orbit"", along the lines of ""a kind of 21st-century Trajan's Column"", but this was dropped when more daring ideas were received. The media reported unconfirmed details of the project in October 2009, describing the interest of the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, one of Britain's richest men, in funding a project that would cost around £15 million. Boris Johnson was believed to want something like the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty. At that time there were understood to be five short-listed artists, including Antony Gormley, being"
"Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950), is a British sculptor. His best known works include the ""Angel of the North"", a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, ""Another Place"" on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and ""Event Horizon"", a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015–16. In 2008 ""The Daily Telegraph"" ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the ""100 most"
"by Tubeworkers (Structures) Ltd. Quantum Cloud The Quantum Cloud is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located next to the Millennium Dome in London. The sculpture was commissioned for the site and was completed in 1999. At 30 metres high, it is Gormley's tallest sculpture to date (taller than the ""Angel of the North""). It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m long sections of steel. The steel sections were arranged using a computer model with a random walk algorithm starting from points on the surface of an enlarged figure based on Gormley's body"
"it looked less and less like a work of art and more like a vanity project. In an online poll published by ""The Guardian"", 38.6% of readers considered it a ""grand design"", while 61.4% for considered it ""garbage"". Responding to concerns from ""The Times"" that ArcelorMittal's sponsorship and naming of ""Orbit"" would represent an improper incursion of corporate branding into public life, Johnson stated that Olympic rules mean that it cannot carry any corporate branding during the games. Felicity Carus of ""The Guardian's"" environment blog questioned whether ArcelorMittal's record on carbon emissions was good enough to mean Orbit represented a"
"gardens and indoor sanitation. Many towns also feature statues or sculptures dedicated to famous natives. Modernism remains a significant force in UK architecture, although its influence is felt predominantly in commercial buildings. The two most prominent proponents are Lord Rogers of Riverside and Norman Foster. Rogers' best known London buildings are probably Lloyd's Building and the Millennium Dome, while Foster created the 'Gherkin' and the City Hall. The Turner Prize winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor is an acclaimed contemporary British sculptors. A notable design is his ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture at the Olympic Park in London. Described by ""The Guardian"" as"
"Pernilla Ohrstedt Elin Pernilla Ohrstedt (born December 1980) is a London-based Swedish architect. Elin Pernilla Ohrstedt was born in December 1980. She grew up in Stockholm, the daughter of architect parents. She did a foundation course at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, followed by the Bartlett School of Architecture. She founded the London-based Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio in 2012. In September 2013, the ""London Evening Standard"" included her in the ES Power 1000. Her work has included the ""Coca-Cola Beatbox"" in collaboration with Asif Khan, a London 2012 Olympic Park interactive pavilion that can be played like"
"Quantum Cloud The Quantum Cloud is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located next to the Millennium Dome in London. The sculpture was commissioned for the site and was completed in 1999. At 30 metres high, it is Gormley's tallest sculpture to date (taller than the ""Angel of the North""). It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m long sections of steel. The steel sections were arranged using a computer model with a random walk algorithm starting from points on the surface of an enlarged figure based on Gormley's body that forms a residual"
"Event Horizon (sculpture) Event Horizon is the name of a large-scale public sculpture installation by the English artist Antony Gormley. First displayed in London in 2007, they were later displayed in New York, downtown São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Gormley describes his statues as ""...showing solitary figures installed in groups yet retaining their sense of solitude and reflection."" Originally mounted in London in 2007, the project consists of 31 life-size anatomically correct male bodies, 27 constructed of fiberglass and four of cast iron, all cast from the body of the artist himself. which were placed on top of"
"opened in April 2014. The ambition is that the sculpture, as well as being a focal point for the Olympic Park during the Games, will form part of the wider Stratford regeneration plans, which aim to turn the Olympic site into a permanent tourist destination after the Games. Tessa Jowell said ""Orbit"" will be ""like to honey to bees for the millions of tourists that visit London each year"". Boris Johnson predicted it would become ""the perfect iconic cultural legacy"". According to Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Olympic organisers, it would play a central part in the Game's"
"cone and came up with a design for a cone built out of 117 individually shaped steel panels with a total surface area of 586 square metres. The entire cone weighs 84 tonnes. Early contradictory reports suggested the tower would be tall. However, it finally measured in at making it the UK's tallest sculpture surpassing ""Aspire"" (at 60m). The Greater London Authority on announcing the project described ""Orbit""s height in comparison with the Statue of Liberty, stating that it would be taller – the Statue of Liberty is high, including the statue and its pedestal. While the media picked up"
"the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. It was installed at the Cordova Street median at Thurlow in 2014, after being stored at the city works yard for four years. The bronze sculpture is tall. A version of the statue was installed in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London in 2012. It is made of bronze. Nike (Kougioumtzis) Nike is an abstract sculpture depicting Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, designed by Greek artist Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis. Versions of the statue have been donated to every host city of the Olympics since 1996. A bronze, tall version of the sculpture was installed"
"After the March 2010 confirmation of Orbit as the winning design, construction began in November 2010 and it reached its full height in November 2011. Steel is the primary material used in the sculpture. According to Balmond, there was no other feasible alternative, as steel was the only material that could give the minimum thickness and maximum strength represented in the coiling structure. It was built from approximately 2000 tons of steel, produced as much as possible from ArcelorMittal plants, with the exact sourcing being determined by the grades of steel required and the technical requirements of the project. 60%"
"Einstein Gargoyle Einstein Gargoyle, also referred to as Albert Einstein, Einstein, and Einstein Gargoyles, is an outdoor 1986 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, installed on the exterior of Willamette Hall on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The portrait bust depicts Albert Einstein in high relief with a fluttering necktie, and was inspired by a photograph of the scientist on his birthday. It is made of hammered copper sheet and measures approximately x x . The sculpture's condition was undetermined when it was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's ""Save Outdoor Sculpture!"" program in March 1993. The sculpture"
"Nike (Kougioumtzis) Nike is an abstract sculpture depicting Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, designed by Greek artist Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis. Versions of the statue have been donated to every host city of the Olympics since 1996. A bronze, tall version of the sculpture was installed at the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece, in 1995. A bronze, tall version of the statue was installed outside Atlanta City Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996. A bronze, tall version of the sculpture was installed in Beijing, China, in 2008. The Vancouver statue was donated by the city of Olympia to commemorate"
"Stephen Kettle Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966, in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate. Kettle is a self-taught sculptor with no formal training. His best known works include Supermarine Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell, commissioned for the Science Museum in London, which was the first statue of its type in the world, and a life size statue of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and Enigma codebreaker, commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney E Frank for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London."
"Stephen Kettle Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966, in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate. Kettle is a self-taught sculptor with no formal training. His best known works include Supermarine Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell, commissioned for the Science Museum in London, which was the first statue of its type in the world, and a life size statue of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and Enigma codebreaker, commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney E Frank for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London."
"Your Life"" showed Jennifer Love Hewitt's character Sarah Merrin frolicking in the fountain in front of ""The Sphere"" at the base of the World Trade Center. The Sphere The Sphere (officially Sphere at Plaza Fountain) is a high, cast bronze sculpture by German artist Fritz Koenig. It is currently located in Liberty Park at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Originally located at the Austin J. Tobin Plaza, the centerpiece survived the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, which resulted from the September 11 attacks in 2001. Originally placed at the center of the Austin"