PLANNING PERMISSION FOR SCULPTURAL DRINKING FOUNTAIN,
HYDE PARK, LONDON

David Harber's design for a public drinking fountain for Hyde Park in London for the Royal Parks Foundation is to go into production with planning permission granted by the Council.

The brief was to design a unique, visually striking public drinking fountain, sculptural in form yet robust and practical in function.

David Harber's solution is a perfect sphere 1.2 metres in diameter, made out of oxidized verdigris bronze and mirror-polished stainless steel petals and housing four drinking points. The sphere stands on a solid granite plinth and is surrounded by a circle of granite paving.

Spiraling water is held within a shallow crucible of stainless steel. The water is illuminated with blue LEDs. This mirror-polished steel vortex sits on a contrasting rugged black stone plinth.

The combination of the two contrasting materials have been chosen both to mimic and to relect the sky and leaf pattern in the tree canopy above.