{"id":327,"date":"2002-11-11T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-11T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2002\/11\/11\/327\/"},"modified":"2002-11-11T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-11T11:35:00","slug":"327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/327","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sky Mirror:  Nottingham Playhouse <\/b><\/p>\n<p>This stunning sculpture is situated outside the Playhouse Theatre, providing the centrepiece for the re-development of the forecourt area. I thought I would take some pictures of it yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk\/skymirror\">http:\/\/www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk\/skymirror<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facts &amp; figures<\/p>\n<p>Sky Mirror is nearly 6 metres in diameter and weighs nearly 10 tonnes. Blimey!<br \/>\n<br \/>A smaller sculpture was made to test the manufacturing process. The safety of both any reflections and it&#8217;s strength in adverse weather conditions have been checked.<br \/>\n<br \/>The stainless steel for the sculpture is from Sweden and Sky Mirror was manufactured in Finland through a process of cold forging. It was then taken to Wellingborough for final polishing to create the highly reflective surface.<br \/>\n<br \/>The forecourt re-development uses 900 sq. metres of granite paving. The grey granite for the forecourt was quarried in South Africa, the water feature granite quarried in Zimbabwe.<br \/>\n<br \/>The granite was cut and finished in Germany and installed by specialists from Portugal.<br \/>\n<br \/>150 cubic metres of concrete was used for the forecourt with 10 tonnes of steel reinforcement.<br \/>\n<br \/>Sky Mirror is attached to the water feature by 18 stainless steel bolts, each 1.6metres long.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to rumour the Sky Mirror does not pose any danger to pigeons in the form of a barbecue ray. Boffins have plotted the sun&#8217;s movement and erected a temporary sun screen on the roof of the playhouse to prevent direct sunlight hitting the Sky Mirror for two months each year.<\/p>\n<p>Some have dubbed the six-metre sculpture &#8220;a giant shaving mirror&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_00bw.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_00bwT.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\"><\/a>    <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1862_27bw.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1862_27bwT.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_09bw.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_09bwT.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\"><\/a>    <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_04bw.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_04bwT.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_23bw.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/1863_23bwT.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Mirror: Nottingham Playhouse This stunning sculpture is situated outside the Playhouse Theatre, providing the centrepiece for the re-development of the forecourt area. I thought I would take some pictures of it yesterday. http:\/\/www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk\/skymirror Facts &amp; figures Sky Mirror is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/327\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}