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The Pangolin Shield Brings Bamboo Engineering and Colonial Critique to London Design Festival

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The Pangolin Shield Brings Bamboo Engineering and Colonial Critique to London Design Festival

The festival's principal temporary architecture combines materially ambitious bamboo engineering with a politically explicit examination of protection, aggression and Britain's colonial relationship with India. Its short run ends September 20.

Location
Strand Aldwych near Somerset House and the Indian High Commission, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Studio Saar — Architect and co-designer; Atelier One — Structural engineer and co-designer; Ananya Singhal — Studio Saar managing partner and project design lead; Neil Thomas — Atelier One founder and structural-design lead; Node Company — Bamboo connector development collaborator; London Design Festival — Commissioning festival and presenter; Secure — Project supporter
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The Architectural Authority
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