Size + Matter: Southbank Centre

Size + Matter is one of the London Design Festival's cornerstones, pairing a leading designer or architect with a material or manufacturing process. We ask them to explore the dynamic between their own creativity and the material or process. As a result, since 2007, three million people have experienced this series of remarkable explorations - by David Adjaye, Shigeru Ban, Paul Cocksedge, Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levete and Marc Newson - at the Southbank Centre.

This year they are joined by one of the UK's most important architecture practices, David Chipperfield Architects, who teamed up with structural engineers and glass specialists from Arup to create a composition Two Lines, using Sefar Architecture Vision fabric. The metal-coated fabric mesh, black on one side and metallic on the other, is layered between two sheets of glass and gives the installation's panels both translucent and reflective qualities.

Find out more about Two Lines by David Chipperfield Architects

Since 2007 over three million people have seen the London Design Festival installations at the Southbank Centre. Previous commissions include work by Amanda Levete, Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Marc Newson and Paul Cocksedge.