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OSA's warm welcome

Installed in Dortmund for the ongoing RuhrTriennale, this brightly coloured piece by London- and Berlin-based architecture firm OSA is designed as an accessible sculpture.

Entitled 'well, come', the project is a 'hybrid of a physical installation, an animation and a sound installation', say the architects. The vivid pink structure draws on the process of loading goods, cranes and skips, in the context of the area's industrial character, in order to take visitors on a journey.

The project is conceived as a symbolic expression of the movement of both goods and people, underlines the firm. 'It can be located in a place where streams of goods and migrants have been present ever since, immemorial - at the harbour - a "non-place" which as a provisional and future home always refers to what has been left behind,' it explains.

Engineered by UK-based Atelier One, 'well, come' also features a sound installation developed by sound artist and musician Florian Kaplick.