Capisco completed four ventillation columns for TIDEWAY LONDON. Once installed these columns will run along the route of London’s new Supersewer.
Two of the columns were completed by Capisco abroad at SORBA's Headquarters in Winterswijk , Netherlands.

The unique shape of each pipe relates to how water travels through a flume.

Each of the Ventilation columns bear a poem by Dorothea Smartt.
To quote Smartt the poems are “a series of site specific poems relating to the Lost Rivers, about human stories, offering ‘snippets of London life’ across the centuries.”
London’s Lost Rivers refers to London’s natural drainage system which was used as the basis of its original sewage network.
The poems run up the side of the columns which are fully integrated into the infrastructure of the Tunnel itself. The columns are designed to last 120 years, making the columns a significant part of Tideway’s cultural legacy for London for years to come. The font used is the 'Dove font' that is closely associated to the Thames River.

Client - TIDEWAY LONDON