Urging the public question their environment on a daily basis, the CORNERS project is a series of billboards installed from the airport along the ‘gateway’ leading into Sydney city. A collaboration between five local architects, the project was derived from a similar public art exhibit by Barcelona-based architect Manuel de Sola-Morales, and formed as part of the Sydney Architecture Festival. Stephen Collier, instigator of the project was fascinated with the integral, but often overlooked role corners play within our environment. Working alongside architects Neil Durbach, Rachel Neeson, Nick Murcutt and Marcus Trimble; the team created two billboards, now located at South Dowling and Flinders Street.

Collier explains;

The position of the two billboards with respect to the each other, allowed us to play upon the way they are seen separately and sometimes in alignment. Extending this idea of the connected and disconnected nexus between garden and city. From certain vantage points the two boards are seen together. These change & shift as you arrive at the crossroad from different vantage points. The corners that make up the intersection await further architectural and urban definition. What should they be? Could the design of this corner intensify the experience of the city (in either urban or landscape terms)? This is the question that we are interested in asking. What would happen if we filled the park with more trees? Introduced more public buildings. What would it be like if the urban area was reconfigured to make it more public at its centre? If we introduced pockets of green into it, and inserted a public building into the park, a building that would sit unbounded by fences and divisions and connect to the landscape on all sides.

[via Australian Edge]

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