Plywood renderings of modernist buildings


Theguardian_ One afternoon at the Barbican in London, Helen Waites was enjoying the way the light and shadows changed as the hours passed. It reminded her of a carved wooden relief her parents used to have. Inspired, she set up a Kickstarter funding campaign in order to found Plyconic, an east London design studio that specialises in 3D artworks (PlyForms) depicting postwar modernist architecture in layers of plywood.

The Piccadilly hotel (Mercure), Manchester

The Barnes Wallis buildings at the University of Manchester

The Hayward Gallery, London

The Renold Building, University of Manchester

The Hexagon Tower, Manchester

The skatepark on London’s Southbank

The Piccadilly hotel (Mercure), Manchester

The Renold Building, University of Manchester

The Piccadilly hotel (Mercure), Manchester

The National Theatre, London