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IT may look like a rollercoaster that's melted or a chain of someone's DNA or even a snake that's swallowed a saucer, but the Orbit Tower, which will form the centrepiece of the 2012 Olympic site in London, has the potential to become to Britain what the Statue of Liberty is to America or the Eiffel Tower is to France.
The new tower is certainly typical of the kind of iconography that its creator Anish Kapoor does so memorably: giant but delicate structures melted and stretched into place and then welded and riveted into people's memories. The tower will be Britain's largest ever public artwork and will be made from one continuous loop of steel curling and sweeping back in on itself, incorporating the five Olympic rings as it does. The whole thing will cost pound(s)19m, with the company that makes the steel, ArcelorMittal, funding pound(s)16m of that and the London Development Agency the rest.See the full content of this document
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Someone's Dna
Kapoor's sculptures often allow those who see them to become part of the art by walking under or into them and t...
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