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Public Arts: Design Award win for The GreenPublic Arts, Wakefield has scooped a top design prize at the Roses Design Awards in Manchester. The company received the award for the Best Use of Public Art in the Architecture Category. The prize was awarded for The Green: A Yorkshire Festival of Places, a series of public art installations which took place across Yorkshire in September and October 2003.
The Green was an innovative contemporary art and landscape architecture installation that formed the centrepiece of a weekend of events in five towns and cities across West, East and South Yorkshire. In each town roads were closed to traffic across the weekend to allow The Green, a twisted and turning three dimensional ‘village green’ formed from a steel frame and turf, to be installed and to become an oasis in the centre of the town or city. Bridlington, Huddersfield, Halifax, Doncaster and Wakefield all hosted the installation and each added their own unique personality to it. Each town provided entertainment around the installation and visitors were encouraged to interact with the grassy slopes and enjoy their surroundings.
Public Arts managed and delivered The Green through their People Making Places programme as part of Yorkshire Forward’s innovative Urban Renaissance initiative and it was intended to encourage re-thinking of traditional public spaces. People Mak
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