This new office steel and glass office block, on the site of the former Swanson’s hotel, is being built by Dandara. ‘Bollards’ , a set of four quirky cast-iron bollards by Anthony Gormley will enliven the lane running down the east side of the building.

Carl Laubin has been commissioned to produce a large ‘Capriccio’ or fantasy painting of buildings – mainly towers – from all over the island. They are placed in a fantastical misty rocky maritime setting inspired by the moonlit rocks at Green Island. To be hung in the lobby the painting will be lit to be visible from the exterior.


Notes on Capriccio Jersiaise by Carl Laubin

“When asked to produce a painting or paintings of Jersey coastal architecture, I wondered what form that might take. Experiencing low tide at Green Island under a full moon, I began to sense that the landscape would be of equal importance to the buildings, but how to combine bringing together a number of buildings in a fantasy composition and still maintain an idea of the actual landscape was a problem.
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The idea behind the composition, then, became one of playing with scale, depicting the landscape at low tide so that it was recognizably the landscape of the southeast coast of Jersey, but altering the scale by building the roofs into imaginary hill towns made up of the various examples of the coastal architecture I had been asked to paint.” Carl Laubin, 2009

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