A giant funnel has plunged into the city's defunct swimming pool. If only the space could be saved from demolition for more wonderful art installations ...
Emptied of water it makes an amazing space; if only it could be saved from demolition, that play on the famous hymn could be its new name. Amazing Space, the Tate Modern Turbine Hall of the north. The first, and alas only exhibitors, Germany's Office for Subversive Architecture, prove the point with a vast textile funnel from roof to, almost, pool floor tiles.
Called the Accumulator, the Leeds' funnel is notionally capable of catching the city's rainwater from the leaking roof at a rate that would refill the pool in 12 years. In Manchester it would probably take a week.
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