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“Of the 640 listed statues in the UK only 15% are women,” writes James Merry<\/a>, of the creative design agency Squint\/Opera.<\/p>\n

In support of International Women\u2019s Day this coming Sunday, March 8, the company offers some recommendations in the form of spiffy renderings to increase that number. As visualizations, they wow. In practical terms, they vary in realizability. One of them \u2014 in classic utopian, sci-fi fashion \u2014 is an asteroid. The others include a tech incubator, housed by the crinoline of Ada Lovelace’s massive Victorian dress, an Amelia-Earhart-inspired control tower at Heathrow, and a colossal sewing machine as a bridge over the Thames.<\/p>\n

The fantastic images envision “how London could be transformed by giant statues of positive female role models,” writes Merry, after citing stats on the current state of women in architecture<\/a>. “In the built environment, just 34% of officially qualified UK architects are women. That’s 4,000 of the 27,000 registered. Closer to home, preliminary findings from a recent CGArchitect survey show that just 6% of survey participants employed in architectural visualization are women.”<\/p>\n

Below, behold the statues in all their feminist glory. It’s regrettable that there are no women of color included, such as politicians Diane Abbott and Valerie Amos, organizer Olive Morris, or Seaman William Brown (the first black woman in the Royal Navy)<\/a>, but we applaud the advocacy for a more equitable \u2014 if rather literal \u2014 representation of women in the built environment.<\/p>\n

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The Giant Ada Lovelace of Silicon Roundabout<\/b><\/p>\n

“The English mathematician and writer was the world’s first computer programmer, and her algorithm was used by Charles Babbage who invented the concept of the computer. This giant rotating colossus is designed to tower over Old Street\u2019s Silicon Roundabout. Her outstretched spinning arms drop glittering \u20181\u2019s and \u20180\u2019s to give the impression of being in a Matrix shower to the people going around the roundabout below. Within her impressive Victorian dress there is space dedicated to the incubation of tech start-ups.”<\/p>\n

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Amelia Earhart Control Tower<\/b><\/p>\n

“A new control tower built at Heathrow Airport in the shape of Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. [Earhart] was also the first women to be awarded the U.S. distinguished Flying Cross. [She] set many other records and was an author and campaigner for equal rights. In 1937 she disappeared whilst flying solo over the Pacific, but her legacy lives on as an inspiration to female aviators everywhere.”<\/p>\n

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The Mary Wollstonecraft Rock<\/b><\/p>\n

“In honor of the writer, philosopher and advocate of women’s rights Mary Wollstonecraft, a space mission is sent to retrieve the famous asteroid named after her. After a long and dangerous expedition, the space-rock crash-lands into Parliament Square, where it becomes a serendipitous tourist attraction.”<\/p>\n

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The Dagenham Sewing Machine Bridge<\/b><\/p>\n

“A much-needed bridge is built across the Thames, between Dagenham and Thamesmead in the shape of a giant sewing machine \u2014 reminding us of the Ford Sewing Machinist\u2019s Strike of 1968, dramatized in the film \u2018Made in Dagenham.'”<\/p>\n

Read the full letter \u2014 and see concept sketches of the above designs \u2014 here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Together, the images imagine “how London could be transformed by giant statues of positive female role models.” They include an asteroid, a tech incubator, a control tower at Heathrow, and a colossal sewing machine, honoring Wollstonecraft, Lovelace, Earhart, and the Dagenham sewing machinists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"architizer_featured_type":"","architizer_featured_image":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"architizer_project":[],"architizer_brand":[],"architizer_firm":[],"architizer_product":[],"class_list":["post-11794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-inspiration"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThese Renderings Show How to Build Gender Equality into London's Architecture - Architizer Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/industry\/international-womens-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"These Renderings Show How to Build Gender Equality into London's Architecture - Architizer Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Together, the images imagine "how London could be transformed by giant statues of positive female role models." 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