{"id":733,"date":"2025-05-22T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:39:49","slug":"a-rippling-townhouse-facade-by-alex-chinneck-takes-a-seat-in-a-london-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/a-rippling-townhouse-facade-by-alex-chinneck-takes-a-seat-in-a-london-square\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-2-e1747921493310.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It takes a real knack for design to make something as hefty and industrial as steel and bricks appear weightless or even playful. But British artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexchinneck.com\/projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Chinneck<\/a> (<a href=\"\/tags\/alex-chinneck\">previously<\/a>) is no stranger to monumental projects that reimagine urban infrastructure and buildings into striking public installations.<\/p>\n<p>As part of London&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clerkenwell Design Week<\/a>, Chinneck unveiled &#8220;A week at the knees,&#8221; a new sculpture in Charterhouse Square that takes its cue from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/10\/building-alex-chinneck\/\">an iconic predecessor<\/a>. The artist installed the \u201cFrom the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes&#8221; in 2013 on a dilapidated townhouse in Margate, appearing as though the entire front of the building had simply slid right off. On view through June in London, his new work boasts a frame made from 320 meters of repurposed steel and 7,000 bricks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;A week at the knees&#039; by Alex Chinneck\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oum5JjO7xQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;A week at the knees&#8221; playfully anthropomorphizes a classic Georgian facade, with its lower two levels rippling over a pathway as if seated in the park with its knees up. London is famous for its green squares and gardens, and Chinneck&#8217;s work invites visitors to pass through a unique portal that calls upon the history of its surroundings, complete with downspout and lamps flanking the arched front door.<\/p>\n<p>Chinneck fabricated the sculpture in collaboration with numerous British companies to source and create bespoke steel beams, curving windows, and bricks. At five meters tall and weighing 12 tons, the piece mimics a life-size building while sporting a thickness of only 15 centimeters. The effect lends itself to the experience of a hefty, architectonic structure with a graceful, lightweight personality.<\/p>\n<p>Explore more on Chinneck&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexchinneck.com\/projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexchinneck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a detail of a public artwork resembling a curving brick townhouse facade\" class=\"wp-image-455758 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-9.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2730\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a public art piece in a a park featuring the facade of a London townhouse that appears to sit on the ground with its knees up\" class=\"wp-image-455757 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-8-scaled.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a detail of a public artwork resembling a curving brick townhouse facade\" class=\"wp-image-455755 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-6-scaled.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3002\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a detail of a public artwork resembling a curving brick townhouse facade\" class=\"wp-image-455754 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-5-scaled.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1417\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"people walk beneath a public artwork resembling a curving brick townhouse facade\" class=\"wp-image-455756 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-7.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a detail of a public artwork resembling a curving brick townhouse facade\" class=\"wp-image-455750 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chinneck-1-scaled.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/05\/alex-chinneck-a-week-at-the-knees\/\">A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a real knack for design to make something as hefty and industrial as steel and bricks appear weightless or even playful. But British artist Alex Chinneck (previously) is no stranger to monumental projects that reimagine urban infrastructure and buildings into striking public installations. As part of London&#8217;s Clerkenwell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/a-rippling-townhouse-facade-by-alex-chinneck-takes-a-seat-in-a-london-square\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trimfaucet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}