Sculpture for Transport Hubs

Airports, stations and metro forecourts are the most constrained sites we work on and the most rewarding, because a piece here is seen by more people in a week than a gallery piece sees in a decade. Three constraints dominate. Weight, because forecourts frequently sit over a station box or a basement and the permitted load is fixed before design starts — this is why fiberglass over an engineered steel mast appears so often in this sector. Access windows, because installation happens inside night closures measured in hours, with a rehearsed sequence and no margin for improvisation. And durability under crowd conditions: surfaces are touched constantly, cleaned aggressively, and occasionally impacted by baggage trolleys and maintenance vehicles. We design to be cleaned with whatever the facilities contractor actually uses, not with what the specification says. Fire performance, evacuation routes and CCTV sight lines all get checked with the operator early, because any one of them can move a piece three metres and change the whole design.