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ICE & DIAMONDS BALL FOR WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED
Special commission from Timebased Events
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In March Timebased Events produced the Ice & Diamonds Send-Off Ball for Walking with the Wounded. Battersea Power Station's Boiler House was
transformed into a winter wonderland for the evening and Zara Phillips, David Bailey, Rob Brydon and Yasmin Le Bon graced the white carpet.
Timebased worked with the Walking with the Wounded charity, and sponsors Artemis Investment Management, Edmiston and GQ to ensure the occasion
was as notable as the people and the cause it was supporting. Battersea Power Station's Boiler House became a chic ice cave, adorned with Herbert
Ponting's photographic documentation of previous polar adventures. Two majestic ice bars were installed and the ball was illuminated by sparkling glass
chandeliers and electric blue projections. Capital Models made the 7m x 5m Entrance Arch and a 30m long Tunnel made from wire cut polystyrene. There
was enough polystyrene to fill a 60' arctic lorry, delivered to the workshop for cutting, re-delivered to site for assembly which took 3 people a day
and a half. After the event the following day, disassembled and then sent for recycling.
The evening raised over £220,000 for the brave servicemen and women who fight for our country
http://www.timebased.co.uk/news-item2.html
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Perspective: Les Charettes
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From corrugated card blocks to exquisite display for intricate architectural models.
No job too small or too big for Capital Models now that they have additional space in their Perseverance Works workshop.
For over a month the Capital Models workshop was taken over by huge cardboard blocks of all shapes and sizes. These were slowly assembled and
mounted on wheels, thus being transformed into carts used by Europe foremost interdisciplinary practice of architects, designers, engineers
and urbanists BDP to celebrate its 50 years.
The BDP 61/11 exhibition celebrates the 50 years of BDP's life and the exhibition at the RIBA celebrates BDP's multi-disciplinary success. BDP's
founder was George Grenfell-Baines who lived in Preston where the company originated and whose father Ernest Baines was a railwayman. It is this
link that lead us to design a wagon train for the exhibition to house the models and charettes to house the graphics. The material choice was purely
for a sustainable reasons and the recycled look of the train creates as much intrigue as the information contained within it. Let's just hope that
as the "wagon train" leaves London and weaves its way up to Manchester it is admired as much as it has been in the RIBA.
www.bdp.com
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Feature - O2 Window display
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This display made from MDF and Perspex and clad in print was installed on at the O2 shop in Westfield Shopping Centre
in West London.
The base unit 4m wide and 1.2m high has a curved front into which are slots to accommodate the cutouts of a horse, donkey, hills and rocks, and Mr
Tumnus.
Service Graphics commissioned this project as well as doing the printing and application to our structure.
www.servicegraphics.co.uk
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Laser special - Royal Academy + new, bigger machine
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This exciting model designed and assembled by Atmos has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (7th June - 15th August 2011)
The delicate components were laser-cut by Capital Models, using one of their powerful laser-cutting machines.
The life-size article is actually a staircase in a house in Clapham.
The stair is formed from a series of threads (the filigree bars of the balustrade landing), hanging from above and delicately pulled back like a veil
at the edge of the floor to allow movement past, gently splaying around the corner to meet and carry the arriving visitor.
For more pictures click here
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New laser cutter
Capital Models have replaced their 100 watt laser cutter with a larger state-of-the-art 980mm x 1850mm new machine. Please note that the lasers can cut and
engrave most materials, including acrylic, MDF, veneer, fabrics etc. (not metals).
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See more of Capital Models work on our website:
www.capitalmodels.co.uk
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