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Workington Town Centre Toilets: Central Way, opposite Upton Street Workington's new public toilets, on the ground floor of the multi-storey car park, opened on Monday 13 November 2006. Fish from the Solway swim in a specially-designed tank in the communal entrance area, provided by the Lake District Coast Aquarium in Maryport. Ceramic artist Paul Scott and writer Robert Drake were commissioned to collaborate on the design of visuals and text for the tiles and doors of the toilets, and have also influenced the colour scheme. Their innovative designs incorporate text and images relating to Workington’s history, location and provenance into the ceramic tiling scheme of the toilets. The colour scheme (coal black, steel grey and iron pink/red) was inspired by West Cumbrian wagon cards. The Water Cycle describes the journey of water to the site of the toilets and runs horizontally along the walls of the ladies and gents toilets. The History Line is a floor to ceiling text in the communal area near the toilets entrance. Each tile is based on a famous person, place or event linked with Workington and the design is based on the shape of old railway tickets. You Are Here….., which features on the back of toilet doors, above hand driers and in baby changing and disabled toilets, consists of facts relating to different Workingtons around the world. The Hub The Hub is a new outdoor performance space at the heart of Workington town centre where the four new shopping malls meet. The area has a canopy overhead, incorporating lighting and state of the art 3D sound technology. The Hub's canopy, designed by BASE Structures in Bristol and is suspended from the surrounding buildings. The Hub's 3D sound system can be configured to broadcast any live or recorded sound, Allerdale Borough Council are working in partnership with SoundWave as well as local performers and organisations to programme and create new work to be performed in the space in the future. SoundLife is a unique three-dimensional surround sound composition created by Illustrious Company (Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke) incorporating recordings made in and around Workington, combined with historical archived material to create a subtle but beautiful immersive sound experience. Sounds will drift invisibly around visitors to The Hub, creating a contemplative experience about the people, places and atmospheres that help to make Workington the unique location that it has always been.??Recordings that feature in SoundLife include sounds of manufacturing, the steelworks, reminiscences of local people including the famous ‘Uppies and Downies’ game, bingo halls, rugby league training, children’s nursery rhymes, rare and beautiful instruments from the Helena Thompson Museum, church bells ringing, the sounds of the local countryside, the docks, skateboarding, markets, amateur dramatics, wind turbines and local musicians. Canopies Over eight hundred glass panels by Alexander Beleschenko form canopies outside town centre shops in Workington, making it one of the country's largest decorative glass projects. Inspired by the landscape and industry of the area, the canopies cover an area of over 1,200 square metres. Alexander Beleschenko makes large scale architectural glass works for commission and exhibition. His work can be seen in places including Southwark Underground Station in London, the Herz Jesu Kirche in Munich and St. John's College, Oxford. Car Park grilles design scheme The Jane Street façade of Workington’s new multi-storey car park is animated by twelve detailed ventilation grilles designed by Tom Lomax. The artist has worked closely with local company Alan Dawson Associates, who specialise in architectural metalwork, to produce the grilles using laser cutting techniques. Each grille, made of galvanised steel, will measure 5 metres high by 2 metres wide. The designs are inspired by anagrams of the word ‘Workington’, which were the result of a special one-day artist’s workshop held for year 5 pupils at St. Patrick’s Primary School, Workington in March 2006. The students had previously researched car parking in Workington for a Geography project. When the grilles are installed, they will be illuminated by coloured lights to make the car park a creative feature of the town. Tom Lomax is a public artist based in London who has created works for the city centres of Birmingham and Leeds. He teaches at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. http://www.allerdale.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/arts-and-entertainment/public-art.aspx Address Telephone |
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