Artists Craft Sandcastles to Critique Bland Urban Architecture for Heatherwick's Humanise Campaign
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Summary
Artists created sandcastles mimicking bland, lifeless buildings as part of architect Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign. The event, held in Morecambe Bay, featured a three-metre-wide sand cityscape called Bland Castles, highlighting the campaign's critique of uninspiring urban architecture.
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· 2 pulledArtists created sandcastles 'mimicking the flat, lifeless buildings all too common in our towns'.
The one-day event saw sand artist group Sand In Your Eye create a three-metre-wide cityscape called Bland Castles.
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