Current Tenders & Competitions

As usual, the 2025 brief is open to broad interpretation. Entrants need have regard only to the location where their proposal is to be realised and the platform, podium or plinth as its base. There is also some background and history of Antepavilion and its home, Brunswick and Columbia Wharves, to which entrants should be alert.

First, there is the recent history of the particular rooftop location and the installations that have previously stood upon it. And then there is the recent conclusion of Antepavilion’s fight for survival against attack by Hackney Council. This is well documented and took in various specific installations displayed on the rooftops of the buildings. In less oppressive times this victory would not have required a fight. But in 2020’s Britain it took four years, multiple litigations and planning appeals, and of course money, to secure. So this year’s installation in the Wharves’ most prominent display space will, by its timing, be something of a war memorial.

As with previous Antepavilion briefs, re-use of materials is encouraged. Available materials include some structural steel and timbers, including those used in Antechamber. Also, notably this year we have acquired a large quantity of reclaimed Red Louro lath cladding that has been very expensively removed and replaced in one of the hundreds of cases of blocks of flats that were recognised to be a fire risk only when Grenfell happened. Some of these materials will be presented to entrants at the open days and many can be seen in the resources file.