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Waiting Room by Dominic Wilcox
Designer Dominic Wilcox has taken an abandoned office in a London building being demolished this week and painted the entire contents white.
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Located in the only room in the building not emptied, the contents of Waiting Room are left exactly as they where when in use, only without colour.
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The St Phillips Building, originally constructed as an infirmary, is being demolished to allow construction to start on a new student union for the London School of Economics.
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Here are some more details about the project:
Dominic Wilcox was invited to take part in a quickly organised exhibition to celebrate the life of London's St Philips Building that is signed off for demolition today. The building started life as a workhouse infirmary for the poor in 1903 and went on to be used as a hospital for women before being bought by the London School of Economics. It is to be demolished to make way for a new student union at LSE.
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"I was shown around the building, all rooms were empty apart from one remaining locked office that was abandoned with all it’s contents intact. I thought that it was as if the room was waiting to die and I wanted to ease its transition from this world.
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My thought for the office was to leave it intact but to remove the colour from every aspect in the room (via white paint) thereby taking away a layer of reality and connection to our world as it moves closer to its imminent death." Dominic Wilcox