Cantelowes Gardens

The London Borough of Camden had a small budget to make a playful intervention in this small park. The existing drab play area was unpopular with the local children and they wanted something more exciting which had a bigger impact.

Taking the idea of a big impact literally, a 60 tonne granite boulder was placed in the ground to look like a meteorite that had crashed. Fallen trees, a sand filled crater and a rock strewn furrow lead to the meterorite which has buried itself in the ground, pushing up a grass mound in front of it.

Video of boulder delivery below:

Whilst at Farrer Huxley Associates / complete 2008 / Camden / client: London Borough of Camden / value £60,000 / size 0.3ha.