The Pangolin Shield — Studio Saar × Atelier One

Announced this month, lands on the Strand in September. A bamboo gridshell scaled with two things layered together: Indian police lathi shields and knups, the woven rain shields farmers use in the northeast. Instruments of state force disarmed into a roof that gives shade. Sited on a pedestrian street behind the Indian High Commission, near the Nehru bust. Most festival landmarks are a shape; this one is a sentence.