GORMLEY SCULPTURE

2000

ID: 00000517

Antony Gormley is an English sculptor known for creating steel sculptures using his own body as a motif, and most famous for the massive Angel of the North 1. By contrast, this 2000 project was to be slender, resembling an obelisk, and using 20 steel castings stacked one on top of another.

We provided the structural engineering for the construction of a new sculpture by him consisting of 10 human figures vertically stacked up to a height of 20m using shrink-fit connections and a base isolation system.

The artwork was named Mind-Body Column, a continuous human body molded from steel, symbolizsing the earth itself, standing slender yet sturdy in a valley between high-rise buildings. Orange rust runs down the velvet-like skin, a permanent but continually changing patina.

Arup service： Structural engineering