Sackler Crossing
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
May 2006
A spare material palette of granite and bronze reinforces the elemental
character of the design. Rhythmic bands of dark granite laid like
railway sleepers form the deck, while cast bronze vertical cantilevers
set flush between the granite treads act as simple balusters, the top
of each slender upright smoothly contoured to fit comfortably in the
hand. Viewed end on, the balusters read as a solid composition. From
the side this solidity fragments, allowing views through and affording
the structure a pleasing material ambiguity, with light used to
preserve this transparency after nightfall.