First Floor

South Exhibition Gallery TOP

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• View of the South Exhibition Gallery
  

  View of the South Exhibition Gallery

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

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• Adjoining Rooms
  

  Adjoining Rooms

  Adjoining Rooms 1989
  Wood, glass, acrylic sheet, AC lacquer
  Installation: 78 x 426 x 62 cm; three items: 78 x 142 x 62 cm (each)
  Tate, London

  Like the chair sculptures Conversation Seat (1986), Interlocking Chairs (1995) and Burnt Interlocking Chairs (1997), this work shows us how discrete components, in this case individual vitrines, combine into one work. It also expresses a Soanean mode of creating space: Soane did not create discrete rooms, but rather created a series of interlocking spaces, as in the Library-Dining Room and the Dome-Colonnade.

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• Marseille, Cité Radieuse
  

  Marseille, Cité Radieuse

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

  Marseille, Cité Radieuse 2001
  Wood, aluminium, glass, lacquer
  102 x 200 x 10 cm
  Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

  This work depicts the Unite d’habitation, a modernist residential housing principle developed by the architect Le Corbusier. He built these throughout Europe, the most famous of which is in Marseille.

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• Council of Europe
  

  Council of Europe

  Photo: Prudence Cummings Associates

  Council of Europe 1989
  Wood, glass, paint, AC lacquer
  60 x 60 x 15 cm
  The artists

  This work, which depicts the Council of Europe, is part of a larger series of works that explores the common European political and cultural heritage. Other sculptures include the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Security Council, and the European Parliament. It was made at the moment when the European Economic Community was turning into the European Union.

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• Apple, Sunny Vale
  

  Apple, Sunny Vale

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

  Apple, Sunnyvale 2018
  MDF, paper, card, paint, acrylic
  91 x 91 x 7.5 cm
  The artists

  This work depicts the Apple campus in Sunnyvale, California, located in Silicon Valley.

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• Apple, Cupertino
  

  Apple, Cupertino

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

  Apple, Cupertino 2018
  MDF, paper, card, paint, acrylic
  91 x 91 x 7.5 cm
  The artists

  This work depicts the corporate headquarters of Apple, also called Apple Park, which was completed by Norman Foster in 2017. Both Apple works show how tech companies are the new patrons of architecture.

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• Apple Oblique (green)
  

  Apple Oblique (green)

  Apple Oblique (green) 2015
  Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 310 gsm
  75 x 75 cm
  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

  This print depicts the Cupertino headquarters of Apple.

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• Nvidia, Santa Clara (orange)
  

  Nvidia, Santa Clara (orange)

  Nvidia, Santa Clara (orange) 2015
  Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 310 gsm
  75 x 75 cm
  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

  This print depicts the corporate headquarters of Nvidia, a technology company that designs graphics processing units for the gaming and professional markets. Since 2014 they have also focused on artificial intelligence.

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• Logo Works (x4)
  

  Logo Works (x4)

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

  Logo Works (x4) 1998–99
  4 screen prints on Somerset Satin 300 gsm
  70 x 70 cm (each)
  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

  These works depict banks and corporate headquarters towers, such as Deutsche Bank, BMW, IBM, Unilever. Each tower dominates the landscape in its city, playing a key role in each company’s public image strategy and functioning like a super logo that communicates a company’s identity.

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North Exhibition Gallery TOP

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• View of the North Exhibition Gallery
  

  View of the North Exhibition Gallery

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

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• Artists' models
  

  Artists' models

  Photo by Gareth Gardner

  Model for Adjoining Rooms 1989
  Wood, MDF, card, poly carbonate, paint, acrylic sheet
  15 x 54 x 15 cm
  Derwent London plc

  Model for Interlocking Chairs 1994
  MDF, card, paint, acrylic sheet
  15 x 60 x 15 cm
  Derwent London plc

  Model for Burnt Interlocking Chairs 1997
  MDF, card, paint, acrylic sheet
  15 x 60 x 15 cm
  Derwent London plc

  These models show the working methods of Langlands & Bell: they produce their sculptures in the form of models, much as Soane produced models of his buildings.

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• Façade Berlin
  

  Façade Berlin

  Photo by Steve White

  Façade Berlin 1999
  Wood, glass, paint, lacquer
  112 x 98 x 13 cm
  Christina and Dimitri Goulandris Collection, London

  This work depicts another of Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation buildings – this time the one in Berlin.

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• Frozen Sky (Night & Day)
  

  Frozen Sky (Night & Day)

  Frozen Sky (Night & Day) 2000
  2 screen process prints on Somerset satin 300 gsm
  70 x 66 cm (each)
  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

  Each print comprises a circle composed of airport codes.

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• Air Routes of Britain (Night & Day)
  

  Air Routes of Britain (Night & Day)

  Air Routes of Britain (Night & Day) 2000
  2 screen prints on Somerset satin 300 gsm
  70 x 55 cm (each)
  The artists
  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

  This pair of prints visualises air routes to and throughout Britain.

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• Air Routes of Europe (Night & Day)
  

  Air Routes of Europe (Night & Day)

  Air Routes of Europe (Night & Day) 2002–20
  Archival pigment print
  100 x 100 cm (each)
  The artists

  This pair of prints visualises air routes to and throughout Europe. When seen together, Frozen Sky and the Air Routes prints represent the ways in which the technology of air travel collapses space and time and allow ideas to accelerate.

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South Drawing Room TOP

Photos by Gareth Gardner

Conversation Seat 1986*
Wood, glass, lacquer
70 x 110 x 50 cm
The artists
*Artists’ copy of the original which is in the collection of the Norwegian National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

North Drawing Room TOP

Photos by Gareth Gardner

Interlocking Chairs 1995
Wood, glass, lacquer
92 x 92 x 64 cm
Private collection, London