55/02, Kielder, England, United Kingdom
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| 55/02 | |
| Designer | Bob Sheil |
| Location | Kielder, England, United Kingdom |
| Date | to 2009 |
| Building Type | Exhibition and Exposition |
| Climate | Mild Temperate |
| Context | Rural |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Builder | Stahlbogen GmbH |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | The Kielder Partnership |
| Cost | $98,804 |
| Area | 322 square feet |
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"This piece, whose name refers to its grid reference, takes a worthy place among the architectural and art treasures of Kielder Forest, several of which have already won RIBA Awards. The shelter can be seen in glimpses from afar, but its full impact is not revealed until the traveller arrives at the site through the maze of paths. Constructed from thick folded steel drawn, shaped and fabricated with painstaking accuracy, this bold red structure is an enigmatic resting point at the tip of a spit of land jutting into the lake. It picks up on the relationships between the verticality of the trees and the horizontality of the water. The smooth bright coloured manufactured nature of the steel makes an easy contrast with the organic mature woodland that surrounds it." -- RIBA
