The practice recently won an invited RIBA competition for improvements to the roadside landscape of the A66, the main arterial road through Middlesbrough. The scheme consists of a single sculptural proposal intended to provide continuity and identity to the currently disparate roadside verges. A series of flexible posts would be erected in sculptural arrays designed to move in the wind like swathes of corn. The scheme will be implemented at at key locations along the road as it passes through the city.


View of the installation at the entrance to Middlehaven, the Transporter bridge can be seen in the background.


Overview of the scheme at Cargo Fleet Roundabout


Road level view of the scheme at Cargo Fleet Roundabout

Sectional elevation (left) and elevation (right)

The fronds will move as the wind catches them


View looking towards Trinity Crescent


1.20 scale functional model