32 Metre Sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, United Kingdom

February 07, 2010 Category: Art, Urban Design

An art and architecture, the Goodwood Sculpture that located in Chichester, United Kingdom. Created by Capita Bobrowski, part of Capita Symonds, the Goodwood Sculpture is 32 metre sculpture rides high at Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Goodwood stately home in Chichester, England, became embroiled in a world of steel, oil and the ever fearsome car fanatic as the Festival of Speed parked up. As if the tyre tracks of 350 cars and footprints of 150,000 visitors hadn’t left an indelible enough mark on the land, the tread mark of the 44 tonne, may just have left a lasting reminder of the events.

Sponsored by Audi as part of its centenary year celebrations, the vertical sculpture provides a fairly literal envisioning of the event’s theme of speed by showing two cars swooshing into the air, leaving a conjoined track in their wake. The sculpture was designed by renowned sculptor Gerry Judah who is famed for his designs featuring automobilia.

Spanning the ages of car history, the design for Goodwood featured a 1937 Auto Union Streamliner, and the recently launched R8 V10 sports car. In 1938 the Auto Union was brought into the spotlight by breaking incredible speed records at 270 mph before tragically being ripped apart and killing its driver, one of Germany’s great racing heroes, Bernd Rosemeyer. Although the 44 tonne, 32metre high structure is entirely fabricated from steel, Capita Bobrowski utilised in-house software that was originally written for tensile fabric to provide the complex cutting patterns needed for the steel plates that are welded to the central core tube.

32 Metre Sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester United Kingdom