100 MEMORIALS
CASE STUDY VERONICA RYAN WINDRUSH SCULPTURE
Three huge tropical fruits, in all their voluptuous, dimpled and prickly glory, take pride of place on the site of Hackney’s Ridley Road market – a new permanent public sculpture by current Turner Prize-winning artist Veronica Ryan OBE. Ryan remembers making a special journey to this market with her mother, when she was a child growing up in Watford in the 1970s. This market
was the nearest place they could source these exotic fruits, soursop, custard apples and breadfruit. Commissioned by Hackney Council to honour the Windrush generation – who were shockingly treated via anti-refugee policies – and unveiled during the council’s black history season in 2021, the works, one made of marble (the custard apple, to
mimic the fruit’s creamy tones) and the other two in bronze, are situated near St Augustine’s Tower, one of the most significant ancient structures in the borough. Fitting beautifully into Ryan’s usual themes of migration, movement and memory, they were joined in 2022 by another sculpture from Thomas J Price, also in Hackney.
Said Ryan at the unveiling: ‘With
the world crisis we are experiencing, this is a wonderful time to embrace positivity. Cultural visibility and representation evident in public spaces is crucial.’ The statues were curated by
Create London, with additional funding from the Art Fund and the Henry Moore Foundation.
PROJECT INFO Client
Hackney Council
Designer Veronica Ryan
Opened October 2021
Left Veronica Ryan’s tropical fruits honour the Windrush generation
Below top
The new Women’s Work: London Map
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Yemí Aládérun, Zoë Berman and Alice Brownfield from Part W
CASE STUDY WOMEN’S WORK: LONDON MAP
Did you know that Waterloo Bridge was constructed by a predominantly female workforce? Well, anyone using the new Women’s Work: London Map will. Launched on 8 March 2023, to coincide with International Women’s Day, this new map celebrates the London buildings and projects to which women – as architects but also campaigners – have made a significant contribution. Created by voluntary group Part W, it was designed by EDIT Collective. It aims to welcome women into the canon of celebrated architecture and inspire those interested in design and placemaking as well as providing an educational resource for young people. Since records began, women’s work in architecture and urban design has been left off the map, omitted from books and archives. Funded thanks to a
crowdfunding campaign, an open call to London’s architectural community invited suggestions of buildings or sites where women have played a pivotal role in design, development, planning, conservation, commissioning or construction. Expanding the usual view focused on architecture to the wider ecology of city making, the proposed women could be engineers, designers, commissioners, policymakers,
landscape architects, conservationists, activists or community groups, for example. The call-out elicited 150 responses, which have been whittled down to 30 in the finished map, after careful consideration by a judging panel including Adam Nathaniel Furman and Laura Mark. The map features short descriptions of the project, and name-checks the women involved, including lead designers, clients or campaign groups. Listed projects range from the
obvious – London Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects – to the less well known, such as Boatemah Walk and Warwick House, a redevelopment of Angell Town estate campaigned for by Dora Boatemah MBE, and delivered by Anne Thorne Architects designed for timber construction and high environmental performance and sustainability. There are some lesser-known contributors to famous buildings too, such as The Shard’s engineer Roma Agrawal MBE, whose understanding and expertise was pivotal to both the foundations and its spire. Free copies of the maps will
be circulated through London schools, and proceeds of sales will go towards the creation of other, similar maps around the UK.
PROJECT INFO
Client Part W Designer
EDIT Collective
Funding Crowdfunded
Costs £15:
Linkpop.com/ part-w
PORTRAIT: MORLEY VON STERNBERG
ANDY KEATE, 2021
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