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A few weeks back, we told you that there were light-painting giant robots on the horizon for the late-summer’s London Design Festival. Now they’ve added a starchitect to the mix. David Chipperfield has been commissioned to create a project for the annual fest and he’s come up with an impressive one. In the same Size + Matter space Marc Newson was in last year, Chipperfield will be installing something called “The Space Between,” a temporary series of large glass boxes that will look a bit like a mini city. The festival’s organizers have also hired Paul Cocksedge to create an installation called “Drop,”which looks a bit like Chicago’s Millennium Park Bean. Here’s a bit on how Chipperfield’s project will be assembled:

Chipperfiedl is working with Sefar, leading manufacturer of architectural textiles and glass manufacturer Bischoff Glastechink (BGT). With a light source hidden in the base of each block, as day turns to night each will begin to glow and the towers’ solidity apparent in the day will fall away, encouraging a new relationship between the cityscape and the audience. The installation, on Southbank Centre Square, is overlooked by the various elevated walkways at Southbank Centre as well as the street and surrounding plazas. The total composition oscillates between a large still life and a small cityscape where the space in between becomes the protagonist in the balancing of mass and space.

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