Public art & sculpture · London
Skylon
Skylon in England London, United Kingdom.
Peter Beaven — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Skylon is a public sculpture in England London, United Kingdom, dating from 1951. Britain's public art ranges from Henry Moore reclining figures and Anthony Gormley installations to the Angel of the North and the surviving statues of empire.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that gave the illusion of floating above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, "It had no visible means of support".
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 51.5047, -0.1186
- Address
- Jubilee Gardens Belvedere Road, London
- Established
- 1951
- Official site
- international-brigades.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7537939 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Skylon (Festival of Britain) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Skylon?
- Skylon is in London, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.5047°, -0.1186°.
- When was Skylon built?
- Skylon dates to 1951.