Building    From /5/1951  To 1952

Skylon

Categories: Sculpture

The picture source is the website for a group campaigning to rebuild the Skylon. "In 1951, London's skyline was transformed, as part of the Festival of Britain, by the erection of one of the most striking structures ever built in this country: the Skylon. The Skylon was a 300 ft tower - an architectural and engineering marvel designed by two young architects Jacko Moya and Philip Powell still in their twenties, of Powell and Moya Architects. The architects' design was made structurally elegant and minimal by the brilliant engineer Felix Samuely. With a base 40 feet from the ground and the top nearly 300 feet high - the Skylon was more sculpture than building: it was part Zeppelin, part-rocket, part-minaret, and floated like an up-ended airship above the South Bank."

2019: Londonist tells that when dismantled immediately the Festival finished the metal from the Slylon was used for ceremonial paper knives and watches. Who doesn't want one of those?

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Skylon

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Skylon

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Antony Donaldson

Antony Donaldson

Artist and sculptor.

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1 memorial
William Theed, Jnr.

William Theed, Jnr.

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Henry Bursill

Henry Bursill

Bursill also sculpted the allegorical statues on Holborn bridge and seems to be the same man who produced a book on hand shadows in 1851. See Speel for some more info on Bursill.

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3 memorials
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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1 memorial
Sir Francis Chantrey

Sir Francis Chantrey

Sculptor. Born Francis Leggatt Chantry at Jordanthorpe, near Norton, Derbyshire. Sculpted busts and statues of many famous people of the time. Left the Chantrey Bequest (or Chantrey Fund) for purch...

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