Andre Kong Studio, British
A Cautionary Benchmark, London, 2022
This piece, created with the help of London engineering students, was designed for the London Festival of Architecture in 2022. The theme of the festival was “Act”, so Andre Kong Studio built a piece meant to inspire change and action in regard to rising sea levels. The structure is composed of two benches at differing levels – one at normal height, and another raised to the predicted water level of intense 2030 floods – showing the drastic threat that flooding poses to the area. Red paint can be seen climbing up the metal pipes that form the benches to represent the increasingly threatening trends of sea level rise. As the elevated bench towers over the viewer, they are forced to consider the reality of the future. Label by Jackson Schiminger