+ First Designs For the Triangle (12/02/2010 - 11:05:42)
First Designs For the Triangle
Currently we are having the wax slab for the central bronze feature made by Castle Fine Art just down the road at Woodchester.
Here are the working drawings for the first couple of designs, one from documentary sources, the other from work dome with children at St James Primary in Cheltenham: their old school building is 100yds from the Triangle itself, and many of the chilren live on or near the Tramway route
Well, 2010, and everyone just recovering from the snow. There are three projects on the go at the moment, the most pressing of which is the 'Norwood Triangle' renovation project, a bizarre road junction in the South of Cheltenham which we are helping redesign. The project will resurface and extend the pedestrian area there, plant trees, and have as a central feature a series of stone and bronze discs relating to the history of the area. This will be specifically the Leckhampton branch of the Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway, a horse drawn tramway that brought building stone down from the quarries above the town, and which allowed the development of Cheltenham in the nineteenth century, in particular south Cheltenham, which would not have come into being in its present form without the tramroad.
Installation will be in May, and at the moment we are just working on the drawings for the stone discs, and the wax for the central bronze feature.
A bit out of date now, but here is the artist's impression we did earlier: the discs are all now a standard 500 mm and arranged in a circle. The central bronze will be based on the original company seal from 1810.