Examples of use of B of the Bang
1. Designer: Thomas Heatherwick Although smaller than Nelson‘s Column, the B of the Bang – so called because sprinter Linford Christie said he started his races on the "B of the Bang" from the starter‘s pistol – is classed as the tallest freestanding sculpture in the UK because it does not have a plinth or column.
2. I have wandered through the toughest suburbs of Manchester exploring post–modern housing and listening to the wind whistling through Thomas Heatherwick‘s vast steel monument, B of the Bang.