Summary
New Embankment Plan with Dome 2006 is a pencil and gouache drawing on paper. Mimicking the style of classical cartography, Bronstein depicts the River Thames as it snakes its way through the east of London, between Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs, around the Millennium Dome (mentioned in the title) and through the Thames Barrier. The lines are minimal and deliberately conventional, and blue colour has been applied to mark the course of the river. Combining historical research with new invention, the work proposes a new plan for the Millennium Dome which was designed by architect Richard Rogers (born 1933) and built in 1999 to mark the new millennium… (read more)
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