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My name is Stella,
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and I'm the co-director of a sculpture park in the City called Sculpture in the City.
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Sculpture in the City is a fascinating project which we started working on three years ago
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and it's a sculpture park, so we install contemporary sculpture
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around all the towers in the City of London
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and at the eastern end around the Gherkin, Lloyds, the new Leadenhall building,
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which we call the cheese grater,
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and looking at it you have this incredible juxtaposition of the newest towers ever been built
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right next to a 16th century church.
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Here we have these wonderful sculptures by Antony Gormley, there's actually two of them.
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They are called Parallel Field and as you can see,
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they are explicitly sited here because they're in a very strong pedestrian flow
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and on the pavement they look absolutely stunning
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Okay so here we have a Robert Indiana work, it's called One Through Zero.
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We call it numbers for obvious reasons.
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They're a great play on the city, how people perceive the city, and many people
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often joke and say, so you're
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teaching the bankers how to count
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and I guess you could argue that that's what we're doing.
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So the wonderful thing about being up here in
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Sushi Samba on the 39th floor of the Heron Tower
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on a crystal blue sunny day is that you're high up enough to have the city
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literally glistening like a beautiful jewel at your feet.
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I think the city itself
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has so many different layers. I mean I love going to the roof terrace
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on top of One New Change. On the 6th floor you have this
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very intimate view of St Paul's and that's one of the wonderful things about London.
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We're so lucky to live in this
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incredible city. London is spectacular.