"shapes, 90 pieces in all contributing to over 14 tiers (54 individual elements for the head, each weighing ). Dolomite was utilised as a concrete aggregate in order to provide the brilliant white finish. Additionally titanium dioxide was added to the mix in order to provide a self-cleaning mechanism. The construction required the construction of individual moulds for each piece and took a total of 60 days to cast. The foundations of the sculpture extend into the ground with 8 piles driven in to secure it. The sculpture is sited on an old spoil tip of Sutton Manor Colliery which"
"closed in 1991 and it overlooks the M62 motorway. Prospective visitors may download audio guides and smartphone apps before visiting. Dream (sculpture) Dream is a sculpture and a piece of public art by Jaume Plensa in Sutton, St Helens, Merseyside. Costing approximately £1.8m (equivalent to £ in ), it was funded through The Big Art Project in coordination with the Arts Council England, The Art Fund and Channel 4. In 2008 St Helens took part in Channel 4's ""The Big Art Project"" along with several other sites. The project culminated in the unveiling of ""Dream"", a sculpture located on the"
"mother, who Plensa knew in Barcelona. Plensa took her portrait with a laser scanner, capturing 3D information to manipulate and scale into larger models. Looking Into My Dreams, Awilda Looking Into My Dreams, Awilda, or simply Awilda, is a sculpture by Jaume Plensa. The 39-foot tall sculpture originally stood in the surf of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, before being moved to Chicago's Millennium Park. It stood in Millennium Park from June 2014 until January 2016. As of March 2017, ""Awilda"" stands at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. It is composed of resin and marble dust, with a metal"
"Looking Into My Dreams, Awilda Looking Into My Dreams, Awilda, or simply Awilda, is a sculpture by Jaume Plensa. The 39-foot tall sculpture originally stood in the surf of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, before being moved to Chicago's Millennium Park. It stood in Millennium Park from June 2014 until January 2016. As of March 2017, ""Awilda"" stands at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. It is composed of resin and marble dust, with a metal support structure and an internal frame of fiberglass. ""Awilda"" is based on a real person, a Dominican girl who came to Spain with her"
"a monument to the industry of the area. The renovation was directed by the architect Jordi Badia, founder and director of BAAS architecture studio. This project consisted of restoring two current factory buildings and constructing a new one to link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which, as a whole, forms a courtyard. This square contains a Jaume Plensa sculpture named ""Dell'Arte"" (1990), a donation from the Vila Casas Foundation to the city of Barcelona in 2012. All the interventions were made in situ using concrete in line with the old structure. Outside, the lime mortar which"
"Jaume Plensa Jaume Plensa (; born 1955) is a Spanish artist and sculptor. Plensa was born in Barcelona, Catalonia and studied art there, in the ""Llotja"" School and in the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. His works include the ""Crown Fountain"" at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It opened in July 2004. The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces. Another Plensa piece is ""Blake in Gateshead"","
"Ocean Financial Centre in Singapore. And an ensemble piece entitled ""I, You, She, He..."" with three figures composed of the letters, each seated on large flat boulders, can be seen at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From May to mid-August 2011 the work ""Echo"" was displayed in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. In November 2012, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York unveiled a 32-ton sculpture by Plensa entitled ""Laura"". The tall sculpture is composed of 20 massive pieces of marble from the south of Spain. Jaume Plensa Jaume Plensa (; born 1955)"
"Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum The Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum (: Museo de Anclas Philippe Cousteau) is located in Salinas, a town within the Castrillón municipality of Asturias, Spain. It is reached by the N-632. The open-air museum is situated on La Peñona peninsula at one end of the beach near the Arnao tunnel. It includes sails and deck anchors, along with a large, ceramic mural. The featured bust of Philippe Cousteau is the work of sculptor Vicente Menendez-Santarúa Prendes. One of the anchors is from the bulk carrier ""Castillo de Salas"" that ran aground over rocks near Gijon in 1986."
"Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum The Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum (: Museo de Anclas Philippe Cousteau) is located in Salinas, a town within the Castrillón municipality of Asturias, Spain. It is reached by the N-632. The open-air museum is situated on La Peñona peninsula at one end of the beach near the Arnao tunnel. It includes sails and deck anchors, along with a large, ceramic mural. The featured bust of Philippe Cousteau is the work of sculptor Vicente Menendez-Santarúa Prendes. One of the anchors is from the bulk carrier ""Castillo de Salas"" that ran aground over rocks near Gijon in 1986."
"structure tall, weighing , which has been cast to resemble the head and neck of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation. The structure is coated in sparkling white Spanish dolomite, as a contrast to the coal which used to be mined here. It cost nearly £1.9 million and it is hoped it will become as powerful a symbol in North West England as Antony Gormley's ""Angel of the North"" is in North East England. Jaume Plensa himself stated ""When I first came to the site I immediately thought something coming out of the earth was needed. I"
"Napoleon´s forces. ""A Ferida"" by Alberto Bañuelos is a sculpture that symbolizes the wound that has been done to the sea by the spilling of 66,000 tons of oil when the Prestige tanker broke apart off the coast of Muxia on November 13, 2002. The sculpture is 11 meters high, and weights over 400 tons. Muxía Muxía () is a coastal town and municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Fisterra. It is one of the final destinations for pilgrims on the Way of St."
"Glasshoughton Glasshoughton is a neighbourhood of Castleford in West Yorkshire, England, that borders on Pontefract. The appropriate Wakefield ward is called Castleford Central and Glasshoughton. It is home to the Xscape indoor ski slope and leisure centre, the Junction 32 Outlet Shopping Village (initially called Freeport), a DIY superstore, a hotel, several pubs and a number of fast food restaurants, which were built on the site of the former Glasshoughton Colliery and coke coking plant. This area also contains the Glasshoughton Wheel of Light, a former pit winding wheel now made into a sculpture as a memorial to the miners"
"located away. Guardian (sculpture) The Guardian is a tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, the landscaped former Six Bells Colliery site, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen. On 28 June 1960, an underground explosion at the then Six Bells Colliery killed 45 miners. Caused by an ignition of firedamp, coal-dust in the air ignited and the explosion spread almost throughout a district of the mine, killing 45 out of the 48 men who worked there. The sculpture commemorates those events and is dedicated to all mining communities"
"is on the A62 next to the River Colne in Linthwaite. Dathan Tool & Gauge (cutting tools) are in Meltham. John Cotton at the A62/A644 junction in Mirfield are Europe's largest producer of duvets. Camira Fabrics (fabrics for public transport) is based at Hopton Mills, south of Mirfield, with a manufacturing site off the B6108 in the east of Meltham, and makes the upholstery for London buses; further north next to River Calder is a site of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in the south of Mirfield. Overlooked by the Emley Moor tower at the ""Grange Moor Roundabout"" off the A637 and"
"in 1936; the granular form of Perspex was known by ICI as Leukon. Tensar International, invented and manufacture geogrids for construction, off the A6077 near junction 5 of the M65 in Blackburn near the B6231 roundabout; nearby is Castle Metals UK; also on the Shadsworth Business Park is Evertaut, who make auditorium seating. Tyco UK is based on the A62 in Newton Heath. Joseph Holt's Brewery is off the A665 next to Strangeways prison; Boddingtons' Strangeways Brewery closed in 2006. Avecia (biotechnology) is off the A664 in the Hexagon Tower in Blackley near the North Manchester General Hospital. North of"
"Guardian (sculpture) The Guardian is a tall statue overlooking Parc Arael Griffin, the landscaped former Six Bells Colliery site, in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent. It was designed and created by artist Sebastien Boyesen. On 28 June 1960, an underground explosion at the then Six Bells Colliery killed 45 miners. Caused by an ignition of firedamp, coal-dust in the air ignited and the explosion spread almost throughout a district of the mine, killing 45 out of the 48 men who worked there. The sculpture commemorates those events and is dedicated to all mining communities wherever they"
"Six Bells Colliery Six Bells Colliery was a coal mine located in Six Bells, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, Wales. On 28 June 1960 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 45 local miners. It is now the site of an artistically acclaimed memorial to those events, designed by Sebastian Boyesen, and although the memorial is primarily to those who died in Six Bells, it also commemorates human losses and the hope of the entire South Wales coalfield. The colliery was originally opened as Arael Griffin on the site of an earlier balance shaft which had been sunk in 1863"
"railway station. Raleigh Bicycle Company is based in New Eastwood next to the A610; its former site on Triumph Road is now the quirkily designed Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham which has the UK's tallest sculpture (, ""Aspire"". Essentra Packaging (former Payne) nearby in Giltbrook, next to A610 near the A6096/B6010 junction next to IKEA, makes tear tape, owned by Essentra, former Filtrona; Beamlight Automotive Seating (former site of Magna Seating Systems) is nearby. Giant UK (high performance bicycles) on the Charnwood Edge Business Park at the A46/A607 junction in Cossington near the Midland Main Line and River"
"McBeath. Jennings lives and works in Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Martin Jennings Martin Jennings is a British sculptor, born in 1957, who works in the figurative tradition. His statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station was unveiled in 2007 and the statue of Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon Interchange station was presented in 2010. A bronze monument by Jennings commemorating the pioneer plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe was unveiled on the High Street, East Grinstead, in June 2014. Jennings' own father, Michael Jennings, a tank commander badly injured near Eindhoven in 1944,"
"a £12 million allowance for grouting of old mine workings. Construction of the East End Regeneration Route which will connect the M74 Northern Extensions with the M8 motorway at the Provan Gas Works interchange with the M80 motorway. The Phase 1 and Phase 2 from M74 to Parkhead began in 2008 and completed in 2012, but Phase 3 from Parkhead to M80 will not be started until after 2014. It will make use of existing stretches of road and filler sections on currently derelict land. A new sculpture is planned near Gretna called the Star of Caledonia. One intention is"
"Lomond Galleries on North Main Street is a former car factory with an impressive dome and an even more impressive marble entrance hall and staircase. It was originally built in 1906 as the Argyll Motor Works, for Argyll Motors Ltd. A carving above the entrance shows one of the company's cars. After the car production ceased in 1914 it was used by the Admiralty for the manufacture of torpedoes, which were test-fired in Loch Long, and in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in. Alexandria sits on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond."
"de les Glòries to the sea. The massive 22@ plan sets to convert Poblenou into the city's technological and innovation district, as well as to increase leisure and residential spaces. Alongside the newly built, upscale Vila Olímpica and Diagonal Mar areas, many artists and young professionals have converted the former factories and warehouses into lofts, galleries, and shops. Art & Design schools and studios have also opened, making the area known for its creative outlook. Some of the old factory buildings are now declared historic monuments and are under protection. This is the case of the Factory Hispania SA, built"
"architect Martorell Joan and sculptors Rossend Novas, Torquat Tasso, Edward B. Alentorn Maximí Hall and Francesc Pagès and Serratos -igualment destroyed in 1936 and rebuilt in 1945 by Frederic Marès; and ""Josep Anselm Clave monument "" (1888), initially located in the Rambla Catalonia, Valencia and transferred in 1956 to the Passeig de Sant Joan, Josep Vilaseca by architect and sculptor Manuel Fuxà. Finally, note that in 1892 stood at Rambla Square of Catalonia Canaletes Fountain by Pere Falqués, which eventually became an emblem of the city and usually place meeting the fans of Barcelona Football Club in the celebrations of"
"Dividers (sculpture) Dividers is an outdoor sculpture located at Clarendon Dock, on the River Lagan, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was produced in 2002 by artist Vivien Burnside and is an 8.3m tall set of dividers made of bronze with a stainless steel core. The sculpture stands as an archway or frame as the viewer looks inwards to the changing city or outwards to the sea. ""Dividers"", in connecting points, alludes to communication and navigation intrinsic to the Clarendon Dock area. It was funded by Laganside Corporation, Belfast Harbour Commissioners and the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland."
"was converted into an Essoldo Bingo Club; it became a Ladbrokes Lucky 7 Club, and is now a branch of Mecca Bingo. (6.) ""The Classic Cinema"" (1972–1986) was located above a Waitrose supermarket, at 502 Uxbridge Road, Hayes. Subsequently, demolished, its entrance was immediately to the left of the former Savoy (see 5, above). Artist Jeremy Deller's installation ""Sacrilege"" (an inflatable life-size model of Stonehenge) was installed in Barra Hall Park, Hayes from 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday 5 August 2012; an estimated 1,400 people attended to view the artwork on the day. Hayes FM (91.8 FM) is"
"sculpture, created by Walenty Pytel, is made entirely of digger parts and is a powerful representation of JCB. It weighs 36 tonnes, stands 45 feet high and was the largest steel sculpture in Europe at the time of its creation in 1979. It can be seen from the B5030 road that passes it. The village has several businesses, a school, a pre-school and a church. Rocester is home to the football team Rocester F.C.. Rocester lies on the Staffordshire Way, and is the southern terminus of the Limestone Way, a footpath which runs north to Castleton in the Peak District."
"along the Complutense Avenue (""Vía Complutense"") and bordering the old city walls. This makes it the longest in its class of all Europe, with more than two kilometers long. There are interesting statues of important artists such as Amadeo Gabino, José Lamiel, Pablo Serrano or Úrculo, among others. The collection includes works by the following sculptors: Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares The Museum of Outdoor Sculpture of Alcala de Henares (""Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares"") is a permanent exhibition of contemporary art in public Alcalá de Henares (Madrid - Spain),"
"Plensa is best known in the American Midwest for his Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park. ""Spillover II"" was chosen from nearly 100 other artists' works because it seemed the most appropriate for the location. Shorewood Village president Guy Johnson described it as a ""wonderful gift (that) has given us an unprecedented and extraordinary opportunity to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Shorewood"". Jaume Plensa was present at the sculpture's dedication on September 2010. He thanked Shorewood for giving one of his ""children"" a beautiful home, and expressed satisfaction that his artwork was placed near Lake Michigan,"
"Lomeshaye Ind Est north of M65 junction 12 in Brierfield; Cott Beverages (former Macaw Soft Drinks before 2006) is off junction 12 of the M65 in Brierfield, west of Nelson, next to Pendle Water. Jura UK (Swiss coffee machines) is off the A6068 in Colne. At Horrocksford near Clitheroe, Hanson Cement have their large Ribblesdale Cement works, next to the River Ribble, which supplied construction of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Bensons for Beds (previously in Burtonwood near Warrington) and Sleepmasters (both owned by Steinhoff International) are in the north of Accrington, off junction 8 (A56) of the M65, near Huncoat"
"was Parkside, in Newton-le-Willows, which was closed in 1993. The glass industry is no longer the major employer it once was; however, it still employs over a thousand people in the town. The large Pilkington Brothers works, founded in 1826, dominates the town's industrial quarter and still produces all the UK's output of flat glass. In 1994, planning permission was sought out for a link road connecting the M62 directly with the town centre. The development included a £5m retail and commercial property project in the Ravenhead area that had seen successive business closures with the folding of UGB and"
"produced by Beltane Studios in Peebles, which was installed in at a service on 20 September 1999, held in heavy rain in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal. Amazingly, in 2000 two policemen spotted the old statue beside a cut in the perimeter fence at Edinburgh Airport. After much discussion, the old statue was placed alongside the Mill bell in a small garden opposite the site of the main mill buildings on the A72. Initially the mill lade produced enough power for the mills but as production expanded more cheap energy was needed. In 1920 Messrs Boving & Co"
"served the various local collieries. The high point allows for panoramic views over five counties; landmarks such as Lincoln Cathedral and Bolsover Castle can be seen from the summit. The site also overlooks the Elizabethan Hardwick Hall, as well as the more modern M1 motorway. The flat area of the viewpoint was originally laid out with stone blocks, at the ordinal points of the compass. A bronze statue of a kneeling coal miner with a Davy lamp was a later addition, located on a rock plinth in the centre of the viewpoint. The sculpture, called ""Testing for Gas"", was created"
"began. It was drafted by a commission of specialists who were convened by the Catalan Government’s Department of Culture, Valls City Hall and the Valls Museum. The intention of locating the Museum in Can Segarra wasn’t abandoned until 2003 when the old military barracks were proposed which, till that time, had been occupied by the Narcís Oller Secondary School, located in Plaça del Quarter. In 2007, Valls City Hall once again announced a change of location with the creation of a new building outside the city centre, in the area of Ruanes. In Valls on the Thursday 11 June 2009,"