Orbit Slide
Friday, Jun 24, 201610 AM — Wednesday, Aug 31, 20166 PMBST
| Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
London, GBRelated
Much anticipated is the opening of Anish Kapoor's towering 114.5-metre-high sculpture, not as the entertaining landmark of the Olympic park, but as the helter-skelter that its form so playful had always suggested. The first lucky participants were able to ride the exhilaratingly long slide last week, and it is now open to the public.
The orbit tower has been described as many things; a treble clef, a hookah, and a “super-sized mutant trombone”. Kapoor's ideas behind the design was to represent instability and chaos; quite relevant for this summer perhaps?
Bringing play back to the Olympic Park, visitors can now (for a fee) hurtle for 40 seconds down the world's largest slide, reaching speeds of 15 miles an hour as they twist and turn around the structure.
Tickets can be booked here, and to keep up with the excitement, click here for their twitter feed.
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