chriswallace85
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Whatever happened to Ambit?
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Went into dry storage, and then got quietly scrapped from memory.
Shandy drinker
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He signed for a French team
RokerLegend
Striker
Stewart Donald used it as payment for the safe return of his daughter
Sporty
Midfield
Ambit - Archive of Destruction
Alison Wilding’s sculpture Ambit was launched on the River Wear in Sunderland, northern England, to much civic fanfare in September 1999. Its elongated, flat oval form referenced Sunderland’s industrial past, and, more specifically, the thousands of boats that had been ushered in and out of the...
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MackneyHackem
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'It soon became a target for local kids who hurled breeze blocks at it and severed its armoured power cables.'Ambit - Archive of Destruction
Alison Wilding’s sculpture Ambit was launched on the River Wear in Sunderland, northern England, to much civic fanfare in September 1999. Its elongated, flat oval form referenced Sunderland’s industrial past, and, more specifically, the thousands of boats that had been ushered in and out of the...
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Awful
League Wan
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Got scrapped apparently, there was a post on one of the Sunderland pages recently
tunstall birdman
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If was a kid back then, I reckon me and my mates would have lobbed bricks off it anarl.'It soon became a target for local kids who hurled breeze blocks at it and severed its armoured power cables.'
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max wartbug
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Design flaw, as it collected all the crap that floated down the river in the middle of it and looked rank.
Add it to the monument outside of WH Smiths by the Bridges, the fountain down Seaburn and those wooden balls at the entrance to Roker Park (the sea end) as glorious ideas but ultimate failures.
Add it to the monument outside of WH Smiths by the Bridges, the fountain down Seaburn and those wooden balls at the entrance to Roker Park (the sea end) as glorious ideas but ultimate failures.
bobster999
Winger
It was a good idea in theory but didn't work on a tidal river
Similar to how the Seaburn Fountain would have worked in a million different places, but not one the exposed North East coast. Good ideas badly executed.
bobster999
Winger
and people finding it funny to constantly fill it with detergent was breaking it as well
Shandy drinker
Striker
The vaux dray by Ray Lonsdale is in a terrible location
sexymuffin
Winger
I don’t think it’s a terrible location but it would really benefit from some lights so you can see it on a night
Womble Don
Midfield
Built by Process Systems Limited who used to be on pattinson industrial estate in washington.
Unbalanced Views
Winger
I had a hand in that, I introduced the designer to PSL so it’s partly my fault
look out piano
Striker
Should've been turned into seating on dry land, bit of up cycling and that......would've looked bonny until the breeze block yobbos got their destructive mitts in it.
Actually they could have had a loud speaking blaring out @tunstall birdman s poetry to keep the scum away.
Actually they could have had a loud speaking blaring out @tunstall birdman s poetry to keep the scum away.
