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

Plaque laid flat in the ground, to the west of the flagpole, to the right in ...

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John Tweed

John Tweed

Sculptor. Born Glasgow. Good friend and associate of Rodin. Also by Tweed is the Wellington Monument in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Died in a nursing home at 18 Langham Street.

Person, Sculpture, Scotland

5 memorials
Hamish Black

Hamish Black

Sculptor. Art UK gives a biography and Gallery Pangolin shows his work. At the Picture source this photo is captioned: "British abstract sculptor, Hamish Black, at his studio in East Chiltington, ...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Hilda Seligman

Hilda Seligman

Author and sculptor. Born Hilda Mary McDowell. In the 1930s she entertained both Mahatma Gandhi and Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, and sculpted the bust of Selassie which now stands in Ca...

Person, Benefactor, Literature, Sculpture, India

1 memorial
Pangolin Editions

Pangolin Editions

A foundry which casts and fabricates sculpture.

Group, Craft / Design, Sculpture

1 memorial
Richard Moore

Richard Moore

Father of Capt. Francis W. Moore, M.C. whose name appears on the memorial erected by his father. If Moore Snr. really did the carving on the monument then he was a talented sculptor and we are surp...

Person, Benefactor, Sculpture

1 memorial

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J. Curl

J. Curl

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
S. Wiles

S. Wiles

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
O. Isard

O. Isard

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
A. J. Lee

A. J. Lee

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
R. J. Wren

R. J. Wren

Founder and Chair of the Arctic Campaign Memorial Trust.

Person, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial