Watermark January – March 1995 Charles Quick & Alan Rogers Bute Docks Pumping Station, Collingdon Road The client approached Cardiff Bay Art Trust with a view to procuring metal railings for a castellated boundary wall enclosing the site of the new pumping station.  Aware of the proposed uses for the adjoining sites – leisure and performing arts – the Trust persuaded the client group that a permeable boundary, allowing pedestrians in, but keeping vehicles out, was more appropriate.  In time the site will be overlooked by taller buildings, and the client was therefore encouraged to involve an artist in designing the floorscape.  Two artists were selected to work collaboratively with the architect on the scheme, Quick concentrating on the boundary, and Rogers on the treatment of the floorscape and use of colour on the site. Charles Quick’s work, a series of industrially inspired sculptures, define the site and perform the intended function of denying vehicular access.  At night another aspect of Quick’s work comes into play – light.  Each of the boundary works (excluding the vents at the front of the site) plays two shafts of computer controlled light across the paving design.  The patterned pavement designed by Alan Rogers is based on Islamic geometric principles drawn from the proportions of the building