BBC sculpture to light up London
April 11, 2004 | bengisu yilmazturk
A sculpture sending a shaft of light 3,000 feet (915 metres) into the sky is to be built at BBC offices in London.
The sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, named Breathing, will be placed above Broadcasting House in memory of journalists who died during their work.
The glass and steel sculpture will consist of a 33-ft (10-metre) inverted spire, etched with a poem.
It will be in place by 2005, forming part of a public art programme tied in to the building's redevelopment.
John Smith, the BBC's director of property, said it was an "exceptional" piece of public art which he hoped would become a landmark on the London skyline.
Private funding
The sculpture is in part-inspired by an adjoining spire of the All Souls Church in central London, which it appears to in
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