London Design Festival: A Bullet from a Shooting Star

This massive steel sculpture was commissioned by the London Design Festival in collaboration with Greenwich Peninsula, and references the industrial history of the site it will be poking out of. British sculptor Alex Chinneck's 35-metre tall inverted electricity pylon weighs 15 tons, and will be visible from North Greenwich station, the Thames Clipper, the Emirates Airline cable car, Canary Wharf and planes flying to and from City Airport. By night it will be illuminated, becoming a beacon and projecting a lattice of shadows onto the ground below. A second work by Chinneck, 'Straight jacket star jumps', sees a curled up pylon fill a glass space at the NOW Gallery, and will be on display from September 19 until January 10 2016.