Public Art
Landscape By Design (LBD) has worked alongside a number of artists and has also independently designed bespoke works in bronze and stone. In 2006, LBD worked in conjunction with the award winning Architects D5 and the Japanese Sculptor Hideo Furuta on Phase II of this combined radio station and creative media centre.
The project was funded by the Arts Council and was opened by the labour peer Bill Morris, in 2006.
Media Centre Afro-Caribbean Millennium centre Birmingham
Close up
Close up of Hideo Furuta’s ‘Spinning Cubes’. Each of the six cubes has been rotated by 10 degrees, giving the sculpture an overall height of 6.6m (20 feet) and a total weight of 4 tonnes.
Lighting
Lighting was incorporated using bollards and up-lighters, to give a dynamic space day and night.
Silver granite
Silver granite was used throughout with contrasting black granite squares in the paving, laid in a pattern to reflect the FM wavelength.
Silver Birch
Silver Birch trees were used to screen ‘back yards’ to the rear, whilst providing movement and a contrasting backdrop to the sculpture.