Winners announced for ‘A Room for London’

David Kohn Architects and artist Fiona Banner have been selected to design ‘A Room for London’, a temporary installation that will sit on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre, as part of the London 2012 Festival.

The design competition, which attracted entries from around 500 architects and artists from across the world, was launched by Living Architecture and Artangel, in association with the Southbank Centre.  

The brief was to create a room on one of the most visible sites in the capital, where up to two people at a time could spend a night in an architectural landmark.

Kohn and Banner’s winning design is for a boat which, perched on the Queen Elizabeth Hall roof, will appear to have come to rest there, grounded from the retreating waters of the Thames below. 

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