<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>1</h2> <p>NEW STREET SQUARE (Conceptual Proposal) London 2005 Make a center; aim in on a target; now spin away, wind out, flow. Alternating bands of black and white pavement spiral out to fill the square, hen turn off to form streets between buildings. A green plane – plantings, bushes, trees – makes the roof of the smallest building. It warps down onto the pavement and winds in and out through the spiral, leaving in its wake narrow parks, miniature gardens. The arcade planned for one street is replaced by a transparent roof of water. It twists down onto the square and morphs into a wall of water. The water that flows down the wall slips between bands of pavement, leaving in its wake narrow rivulets from underground. Now that the square has been acted upon, from the streets, it reacts in return. Bands of pavement are raised to make bleachers, opposite the wall of water. The bleachers step down on the other side, in front of a diaphanous wave, like the ghost of a wall. It’s a projection screen that twists down from a roof – a roof of air, a light roof, a roof that waves in the air – between two buildings; on the other side of the theater, you can sit here and watch movies at night. The square is lit at night. Light glows from the ground, from under the water -- from above, through water -- from the wall, from behind water. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/london_new_street_square/index.html">London New Street Square</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2005/index.html">2005</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Buildings/index.html">Buildings</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Circle-Spiral/index.html">Circle-Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Eduardo%20Marques/index.html">Eduardo Marques</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/England/index.html">England</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/London%20New%20Street%20Square/index.html">London New Street Square</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parks%20and%20Gardens/index.html">Parks and Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Screen-Overlay-Camouflage/index.html">Screen-Overlay-Camouflage</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Seating/index.html">Seating</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sehzat%20Oner/index.html">Sehzat Oner</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Twist-Warp-Morph/index.html">Twist-Warp-Morph</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Unbuilt/index.html">Unbuilt</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wave-Ripple-Flow/index.html">Wave-Ripple-Flow</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/185/LN_SP_pers_002.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/185/LN_SP_pers_002.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/185/LN_SP_pers_002.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>