Cape Town honours Archbishop Tutu with a boundary-breaking public design

Challenging and thought-provoking, subtle and striking, memorable and sensitive – a tribute commission is nothing if not intimidating for any designer behind the scenes. In the case of the recently unveiled ‘Arch for Arch’, a wooden framework dedicated to Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, it was about more than paying homage to a hero: it was also about creating a functional public space that signifies human rights and freedom.
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