SUGAR CUBE MODELS PROVIDE SWEET CELEBRATION OF LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE

To mark this summer’s London Festival of Architecture, Native Land and Grosvenor have commissioned sculptor Brendan Jamison to recreate NEO Bankside, its new residential development, as well as Tate Modern, entirely from sugar cubes.

The completed models will be built to a scale of 1:100, with Tate Modern’s chimney being over one metre high. The sculptures will be constructed from over 80,000 sugar cubes weighing around 255 kilograms.

The sugar models will be unveiled on Friday 2nd July at a VIP party to launch the London Festival of Architecture’s Bankside Urban Forest Weekend.

The models can be viewed by the public over the weekend of 3rd – 4th July at the striking NEO Bankside Sales Pavilion – a prototype of the apartments being built - which adjoins the development site at Hopton Street, London SE1.

The London Festival of Architecture runs from 19th June – 4th July 2010 (www.lfa2010.org <http://www.lfa2010.org/> )

Designed by world renowned architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, NEO Bankside is a new world-class residential development situated immediately adjacent to Tate Modern. The project comprises 197 premium residences over four state-of-the-art pavilions, varying in height from 12 to 24 storeys. The first phase is due to be completed by the end of 2010.

Sculptor, Brendan Jamison, who has made the models, is well known for his architecturally accurate sculptures made from sugar. Over the weekend of 3rd – 4th July, he will be leading workshops and family events at the Pavilion where children can learn how to build sculptures out of sugar cubes.

Alasdair Nicholls, Chief Executive of Native Land, said: “We are delighted to be participating in the London Festival of Architecture with such an original and eye-catching contribution.”