INTERSECTION · PUBLIC REALM · LONDON
Colour creates a landmark at a busy urban threshold.
Four site-specific pavement artworks connect the routes between a public garden and the surrounding streets—creating a clearer, more welcoming and recognisable arrival.
THE CHALLENGE
Turn a transitional space into a clear and welcoming arrival.
The newly built development brings together offices, serviced apartments, restaurants and a landscaped public garden. Its entrances needed a stronger sense of identity and a more intuitive connection to the surrounding streets.
The opportunity was not to add conventional signs, but to use the ground itself to mark thresholds, support movement and invite people into the space.
OUR RESPONSE
A repeatable visual system built from colour and direction.
We created four large-scale pavement artworks positioned at key entrance and exit points. Each composition uses six arrows—three pointing in each direction—to express movement, openness and connection.
A carefully balanced palette responds to the architecture and planting. Repetition makes the system recognisable, while variations in colour give each threshold its own character.
VALUE FOR THE PLACE
Wayfinding that also creates identity.
The artworks make the entrances easier to recognise and turn a previously neutral route into a distinctive part of the development. Orientation, public art and placemaking work as one integrated system.
OUR SCOPE
From spatial concept to installation.
- Site analysis + placement strategy01
- Colour + geometric system02
- Site-specific artwork design03
- Production-ready artwork04
- Collaboration with client, fabricators + installers05
Project created by Petra and Nicole Kapitza, founders of COLOUR FORM SPACE. Photography © Ruth Ward.
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