Breathing (memorial sculpture)
- Breathing (memorial sculpture)
Breathing is the name of a memorial sculpture situated on the roof of the Egton Wing of BBC Broadcasting House, in London. The sculpture commemorates journalists and associated staff who have been killed whilst carrying out their work as war correspondents for the BBC.[cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7456036.stm | title=Killed reporter's memorial opens | accessdate=2008-06-16] It consists of a 10 metre (32ft) high glass and steel column, with a torch-like, inverted spire shape, decorated with words. It also features a poem by James Fenton. At night the sculpture gently glows, then at 10pm every evening (coinciding with the broadcast of the BBC ten o'clock news) the memorial shines a beam of light into the sky for 30 minutes, which reaches up to 900m.][cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/memorial/sculpture.shtml | title=New broadcasting House-Memorial | accessdate=2008-06-16] The memorial was officially unveiled on 16 June 2008 by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The sculpture is by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, woking in collaboration with the Broadcasting House architect Sir Richard MacCormac, Modus Operandi public art consultants and the engineers Whitby Bird & Partners. It was commissioned and selected as a result of an international competition for the BBC's public art scheme. The shape of the sculpture is inspired by the spire of the adjoining All Souls Church, and the radio mast on the roof of Broadcasting House.]References
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/memorial/sculpture.shtml New Broadcasting House - The Sculpture]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/memorial/poem.shtml New Broadcasting House - James Fenton's Poem]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/06_june/16/breathing.shtml Breathing - a new sculpture for Broadcasting House]
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