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FLOW

Newcastle

Project Details

£100,000 to £249,999

Practice

Nicholas Kirk Architects

Studio 210, Regent Studios , 1 Thane Villas , London , N7 7PH , United Kingdom

Flow ~Flow is a tide-mill - a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel. (NKA in collaboration with Ed Carter and The Owl Project). 40,000 people visited Flow during 2012. It was commission by the UK Arts Councilas part of Artists Taking the Lead, a series of large-scale public art projects celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The tide mill mill houses a series of wooden musical machines powered by a 4.5m waterwheel, which respond to the constantly changing environment of the tidal river. ~Flow spans artforms, blending contemporary and traditional methods of construction, combining sculpture, cutting edge technology, hand crafted wooden instruments, architecture, precision engineering and electronic music to create an astonishing audio-visual public artwork. The sounds created by each instrument can also be manipulated by visitors inside the mill house.