Anna Liu - Tonkin Liu
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Anna Liu runs Tonkin Liu with Mike Tonkin. The practice approaches each new project as a blank canvas and seeks solutions that are specific to person, place and time. Its portfolio includes a range of private projects, complemented by competition work at the civic scale. Completed projects in Europe and East Asia have been published around the world and received a number of awards.
The two partners combine design with research and teaching. The book Asking, Looking, Playing, Making, published by Black Dog in 1999, sets out their design approach, which is based on storytelling, space, time and change.
‘Singing, ringing tree’
Tonkin Liu’s design for a ‘singing, ringing tree’ for the countryside outside Burnley is composed of 1,000 wind-powered flutes. The ‘tree’ produces notes and chords that vary according to the intensity and direction of the wind. At sundown, the tree’s song reaches across the heathland to the distant city.
