Ben Nicholson: Travulgar Square
Design in collaboration with Jake Rudin and Erin Pellegrino
Trafalgar Square is Britain’s most visible public space and arranged around the open space are the icons of its lost Empire. It displays how Great Britain was supreme on the battlefield (Nelson’s Column), cultured (National Gallery), had an empire (Canada and South Africa House), a monarchy (Admiralty Arch) a government (view down Whitehall) and divine guidance (St. Martin’s Church). The Travulgar Square project continued the translation of city mood into built form, but this time not in the image of Imperialism, but as a mirror of late bourgeois consumer culture.
Photos: William Stafford, Cornell University.
