10. c/PLEX

13. C/PLEX VIEW…INERTIA / 14. PIER…175M LONG…LINK TO TOWN CENTRE AND THEN BUSTING THROUGH THE ARCHITECTURAL SCHEME…ESSENTIALLY A THREAT. BUDGET AVAILABLE TO DO THAT – ALL THE PUBLIC ART IN ONE PLACE, NO MERGING WITH OR MODIFICATION BY ARCHITECTURE. NEW SCHEME MATCHING THE PIER…LONDON ON THURSDAY.

PDF: 04.02.1997 SHU Talk | c/PIER

PDF: 10 Thoughts on the Tower of Cultural Democracy

PDF: 1993 Gillian Rose | Tower of Babel

PDF: Jubilee Archive | In Search of Cultural Democracy

PDF: c/PLEX Diagrams

PDF: c/PLEX Review January 1998

2000 Public Art Journal Vol 1 #3 2000 (Art & Social Exclusion)

PDF: 2000 Venice Biennale of Architecture

Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas: ‘Less Aesthetics, More Ethics’, Venice Biennale, 2000

“The main room of the British pavilion is given over to a cartoon-like model of Will Alsop’s design for c/PLEX, a public arts centre for West Bromwich. Alsop is the architect of the spirited new public library in Peckham, south-east London, a big character who likes to make a splash with challenging buildings that seem part amoeba, part mechanism. The C/plex model, a great burst of party balloon-like colours, is installed in a room painted by Alsop and slashed across with architect’s slogans. It must have made culture secretary Chris Smith happy when he came for lunch, for rarely has the message of accessibility and art for all in the regions been more clearly spelt out – yet in a way that also appeals to those who believe that architecture should be more than just polite.”