Lee Broom's Beacon Installation Debuts at London Design Festival
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Alyn Griffiths
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Summary
British designer Lee Broom has created his first landmark installation for the London Design Festival - a site-specific sculpture called 'Beacon' installed at the entrance of the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall. The installation features dozens of pulsing illuminated glass shades arranged in a chandelier-like formation, designed as a tribute to the site's history and its brutalist architecture.
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a site-specific sculpture on the city's South Bank comprising dozens of pulsing illuminated glass shades
Beacon is installed at the entrance of the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall
designed by Broom as a tribute to the site's history and its famous brutalist architecture
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