Glass Art in the Public Realm, Piccadilly Place, Manchester. Sharon Campbell and Lauren Sagar The Poetry Discs are set into the waterfall which forms one of the main landscaping features of Piccadilly Place. They act as a canvas to display the winning Poem for Manchester, written by Mike Duff. The artwork’s interactive mirroring quality is created with Dichroic glass and offers an intimacy, drawing people in. (dimensions: Seven discs @ 400mm x 40mm) Here the artists have created an eight-metre square structure clad in glass. Nicknamed the ‘Ice Cube’, a hand drawn, abstract image has been screen printed onto each of the white glass panels. The ‘Ice Cube’ is a living, changeable piece of art. It responds to its immediate environment, such as the sun, the clouds and the position of the viewer. Lit at night it also acts as an over sized street lamp as well as the pedestrian entrance to the car park. (dimensions: 8m square) all photos © McCoy Wynne