Mother London
MOTHER LONDON
MOTHER LONDON
London, United Kingdom
OFFICE
42,000 SF
2004
To access the third floor space, we designed a new concrete staircase cutting through the building to connect the floors. The 4.2 meters wide staircase turns into the Agency’s concrete worktable and circuits through the upper floor like a racetrack, becoming perhaps the world’s largest table at 250 feet long. To mitigate sound in the hard factory space, we designed 2.1 meters long lamp shades padded with 75 mm of acoustic foam. The 50 light fixtures were then covered with unique patterns of Marimekko fabric selected from archive stock in its factory in Helsinki, achieving the effect of a large art installation. The inspiration for the concrete table was the iconic 1920’s Giacomo Matte–Trucco roof top race track for Fiat Lingotto in Turin—making a monumental statement about the most ephemeral of arts: advertis
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ADRIAN WILSON & FRANCISCO RADINO
