GRUPPE Installation featured on Dezeen

One of the installations at this years Clerkenwell Design Week was created by Swiss-studio GRUPPE. Briefed to re-evaluate the boundries and gateways of Clerkenwell, GRUPPE found that it's shape resembled that of a Roman city. Using materials from Marley Eternit's EQUITONE facades range GRUPPE created a number of structures to mark the gateways' to Clerkenwell.

I really enjoyed photographing this project and getting a sense of each different area of Clerkenwell the structures were placed in so I was really proud to see online architectural magazine Dezeen ran a story on this installation and a selecton of my images were used. The article and my photographs can be seen here.

To view photographs from the whole project please visit my website.

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Brutalism in Photos Feature

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