Science and superstition

Article Abstract:

The massive piece commissioned from Thomas Heatherwick, which furnish a seven-story space in the Wellcome Trusts's new headquarters in London is a technical, visual and conceptual tour de force. The statistics are impressive with almost 150,000 glass spheres, 26,732 stainless steel wires, 0.5 mm in diameter, and the sculpture of nearly 30 meters in height and a total weight of 14 tonnes.

United Kingdom, Pharmaceutical preparations, Pharmaceutical industry, Criticism and interpretation, Wellcome Trust, Sculpture, Heatherwick, Thomas

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Surrealism bites back

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Jean Painleve is the pioneer of the development of film techniques that resulted in natural surrealism. His nature films, 'Surreal Things', are exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London until 22 July 2007.

Exhibitions, Motion pictures, Movies, Painleve, Jean

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The clever cone

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The new mottled bronze conical shaped planetarium at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and its dimensions are described.

Contracts & orders received, Architectural services, Contracts & orders let, Contracts, Design and construction, Architectural firms, Contract agreement, Architectural practice, Allies and Morrison, Planetaria, Planetariums, Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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