WY'R DDRAIG
The Dragon's Egg
AMBER + PEARL
TEAM LEADERS: Amber Hiscott and David Pearl amberhiscott@gmail.com
WY'R DDRAIG is a 20 metre high fully glazed structure. The 1600 square metre surface is clad with over 900 silk screen enamelled glass panels
STRUCTURAL: CHRIS JOFEH / ARUP ALAN DAWSON ASSOCIATES
LANDSCAPE DESIGN IAN GRAY MMM Group Ltd., Toronto
There is an opportunity to create a destination at the WY'R DDRAIG site, at once
both local and international. Landscape provides the medium for spatial clarity when
viewing the landmark and integrates the site into the local landscape pattern language
LANDMARK WALES
SECOND SEVERN CROSSING WALES
2007
WY'R DDRAIG 'The Dragon's Egg'
Impressed by the beauty of the expansive, flat landscape of the Second Severn Crossing site, we have chosen a form
that would sympathetically harmonise with the natural character of the estuary, but would also be an icon for a nation.
Our proposal is a Dragon's Egg as the seed of the imagination, containing all that has gone before and all that will
follow, a mythical symbol to celebrate the rebirth and re-emergence of an ancient country.
LITERARY ADVISER NIGEL JENKINS
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Amber + Pearl is the artist collaboration David Pearl and Amber Hiscott