Fiona Banner to design pop-up hotel for London 2012 Festival
08 February, 2011
by: Spoonfed Arts Team
Art + architecture + hotel + 2012 Olympic tie-in = win! (for Fiona Banner and David Kohn at least).
It's the news we've all been waiting for! David Kohn Architects and artist Fiona Banner are to design a sort of pop-up one-room hotel room on the South Bank as part of the London 2012 Festival.
The temporary installation – entitled A Room for London – will be placed on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre and is apparently going to be shaped like a boat.
Over 500 artists and architects from around the world entered the design competition, which was instigated by Living Architecture and Artangel, in association with the Southbank Centre, and the winners were announced today.
Billed modestly as “contemporary architecture at its most playful, beguiling and thought-provoking”, A Room for London will be available for public bookings – for no more than one night – from 8th September 2011. The structure will also play host to a range of different kinds of events and projects.
Whatever one's view on A Room for London, the London 2012 Festival, Cultural Olympiad or the London 2012 Olympic Games, one thing can't be denied: the view is gonna be a cracker.
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Image credit: David Kohn Architects and Fiona Banner
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