A tailored PVC membrane sheathed the plywood shell of Will Alsop’s Information Pod in Cardiff Bay, which housed a permanent display on the development of the Cardiff Bay area. The system was extremely economical to build and provided an excellent weather screen. Known as The Tube, the pod opened in 1990, was moved to a new site in 1993 and was dismantled in autumn 2010 to make way for a link road, by which time it had become a Cardiff landmark.
When the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation started the redevelopment of Cardiff docklands in the mid 1990s a model of the planned work was built. They chose one of the UK’s most creative architects, Will Alsop, to design a structure to house the display.
The building, in the shape of a flattened tube, was made of timber with a PVC skin for weather protection.
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