Temenos

Sculpture · 2010 · Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

By Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond

Where

Middlehaven Dock, beside the Riverside

Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

Any time, from the public paths around the dock

About this artwork

Temenos© Petegal-halfCC BY-SA 3.0

A steel sculpture of a ring and a tube, joined by tensioned cables and about 50 metres high and 110 metres long. Anish Kapoor and the engineer Cecil Balmond made it for the Middlehaven regeneration area. Its name is a Greek word for a sacred enclosure.

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