Bramah House

Duration: 2008Client: St JamesArtist: Clare Woods
Partners: MAKE ArchitectsLocation: Chelsea, London
Typologies: Public RealmTags: Arts, Embedded Arts

In a groundbreaking collaboration between artist and architect, the anodised aluminium cladding of Bramah House and Woods House became a giant canvas for painter Claire Woods. Having identified a need to texture the cladding so that it captured and reflected light, Make worked with Futurecity to develop proposals for an embedded artwork. Woods took hundreds of photographs of the old dock, railway and trees around the site. Her finished design – a semi-abstract image that shadows the trees and the old pumping station chimney was blown up in scale and etched onto the aluminium cladding.