Regent's Place Pavilion by Carmody Groarke

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London architects Carmody Groarke have completed a pavilion in London featuring a steel plate
supported eight meters above the ground on thin poles.

Called Regent's Place Pavilion, the three milimetre-thick steel plate is attached atop the posts by a
decorative structural lattice.

The density of posts under the canopy varies, leaving a central clearing open to the sky.

LED lights embedded in the cobbles below bathe the pavilion in golden light at night.

The project was the result of a competition organised by The Architecture Foundation in 2007.

Photographs are by Luke Hayes.

Here's some more information from Carmody Groarke:
-Carmody Groarkes Regents Place Pavilion is completed
A new pavilion in British Lands Regents Place development opens this week. Designed by Carmody
Groarke, the Regents Place Pavilion was the result of a competition run by The Architecture

Foundation in 2007. The original competition brief called for a new pavilion to mark the Osnaburgh
Street entrance to Regents Place, that enriches and activates the public open space at street level.
Carmody Groarkes winning concept for the pavilion, presents a pavilion as an open field of slender
columns which supports a canopy eight metres above the landscape of the street.

Visible from Euston Road, the pavilion reveals various clustered densities of the vertical columns
beneath its canopy, that shimmer in sunlight by day and contain intense projected gold light by
night, generating a visual moir effect for passers-by. Its dramatic form is visible from approaching
each end of Triton Street intensifing the experience of movement between 10 and 20 Triton Street,
two newly-developed office buildings at the Western entrance to British Lands Regents Place. The
pavilions design has been the product of a architectural / engineering collaboration between Arup
and Carmody Groarke. Holding the 3mm plate stainless steel canopy aloft 8m, extremely slender
vertical elements stand without any cross-bracing, joined only at the top with a decorative structural
lattice. Extensive testing of prototypes was undertaken on full size mock-ups at the Building
Research Establishment as part of the design development process.

The pavilion forms a lightweight counterpoint to the architecture of the public colonnades flanking
each side of the street, relating architecturally to the height of these adjacent structures, but also
inviting views across the street from one side to the other. The grain of the pavilion, from the form of
the lozenge shaped canopy to the alignment of the columns in their surrounding green-granite
cobbled landscape base, is turned 45 degrees to its context to form a dynamic relationship between
the buildings and the public realm. Amongst the field of elements, bespoke LED lighting is set into
the pattern of the cobbled surface to up-light the pavilions canopy, providing all the ambient
external lighting to this end of Regents Place.

The creation of this new ornamental pavilion within Regents Place, examines how the public space is
defined without enclosing it. It is the latest addition to the collection of public artworks and
installations at Regents Place, which already features works by Antony Gormley, Ben Langlands &
Nikki Bell, Liam Gillick and Edward Hodges Baily.
Client: British Land Project
Manager: M3 Consulting
Architects: Carmody Groarke
Engineering: Arup
Landscape Architecture: EDCO

Lighting design: Maurice Brill

Lighting Design Contractor: BOVIS
Sub Contractor: Skanska Specialist
Sub contractors: Sheetfabs, Nottingham