Title:
Landmark
Date:
1992
Artist:
Pierre Vivant
Location:
Ocean Park, junction of East Tyndall Street and Ocean Way
Background:
Following the deterioration of the Cardiff Bay area in the 1970’s and 1980’s and during the subsequent process of regeneration, many old landmarks have disappeared.  The Cardiff Bay Public Art Strategy in part aims to replace these lost landmarks with contemporary visual images: “to provide the familiar of the future”.  Pierre Vivant was selected from an international competition to design a gateway work for an important road junction, at an entrance to a large residential area and an adjacent industrial site
Commission:
At the centre of the roundabout five geometric shapes are placed, constructed with aluminium frames and covered by standard road traffic signs.  Around this, topiary has been set which has been pruned to echo the metal forms.  Because of their reflective property, the sculptures light up at night when caught in passing car headlights.  It is popularly known as the “magic roundabout”.