The Royal Estate

The Royal Estate is constructed from photographs taken of all the British official royal residencies. Each palace has subsequently been reshaped and transformed into a high-rise. These palatial tower blocks are then put together into one image, showing one 'royal estate'. The title refers to the real estate owned by the Queen, as well as to the council housing estate – the compromised version of the modernist dream of low-cost rented housing for all – 'palaces for the people'. The Royal Estate is an architectural proposal.

 
Exhibited in Obscurer, Billboard SN 3312/01, 48 Seel Street, Liverpool, 2006
Open Borders, a Droog Design event, Tri Postal, Lille, France, 2004
Digital Sublime, Museum of Contemporary Art, Teipei, Taiwan, 2004
MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2003

Catalogues:
Design etc, Open Borders – Droog Event #1, Droog Design, Amsterdam, 2004
(ISBN 2-915855-00-5)
Digital Sublime, Emily L. Wu and Frankie Su (ed.), Contemporary Art Foundation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Teipei, 2004
(ISBN 957-28957-6-1)
 
Published in Blueprint, no 209, 2003.
 

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