Hey all!
Happy Sunday! Two posts in two days! I am on it! Today’s post is another City of Culture post. Today marks the end of the iconic blade in Queen Victoria Square as it is being moved back to where it was made: the Siemens plant in Alexandra Dock.
Photos below taken 3rd February 2017.
It’s quite an overwhelming piece of architecture really. It’s massive! A whopping 75 metres in fact. As strange as this sounds, it’s incredibly smooth as well!
The blade is the work of Nayan Kulkarni. He took a rotor blade, that would normally be used to be a part of a wind turbine, to create the artwork. It is there to represent the work in Hull on engineering and manufacturing. Whilst it had mixed reviews from those outside of Hull, for us it’s become a massive talking point. In a way, I can’t imagine the square without it.
So today I popped back to say ‘bye’ and to marvel in it’s wonder for the last time. Apologies for the bedraggled selfie – it was raining and I’ve not been very well!
That’s it! Bye bye big blade! What’s next Hull?
Big love x
booksandbakes1 
Really good blog post and photos!! I’m sad that ‘Blade’ has been taken down but I’m excited for what is next for Hull as part of 2017 City of Culture!
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Same here! It’s been awesome so far!
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haha wow you are on it!!! Very cool pics!
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I’ll vanish again now (with piles of work) for the next month.
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haha fair enough- but it was nice to see you for a bit 🙂
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I’ll try and be back in the week!
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Ah awesome!! 😀
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The selfie was fine – better than me on a good day lol. That blade is impressive! Thinking about that spinning a couple of hundred metres in the air is pretty impressive!
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It’s incredibly isn’t it?! I’m sad it’s gone now
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That’s funny, I remember you writing about you confusion as to why it’s there.
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Ahhh yes but I’ve learnt!
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