At Royal Docks, a series of parallel bands of different kinds of space and different kinds of use run alongside the existing dock. The dock was designed as a piece of infrastructure, orchestrating and rationalising the activities that took place anlongside it. Today, the activities that take place around the dock are different from those that used to take place when the dock was a working place. there are many new activities and uses which are particular to our time, and many which are common to other times and other places, other cities. The proposal defines a 2440mm wide band of space 2,5km long that is related to other parallel bands of space, so that the ordering of the site becomes visible, both as it is today and as a residue of what it was. This involves marking out a piece of ground by raising it, so that a new, higher place is made, which is sensed to be a plinth, a path, and a register of the dimensions of the greater place. The raised ground is integrated with adjacent infrastructures and equipment planned for the site. The organisation of the rest of the enormous site can be seen from the higher place; it serves as frame for viewing the world. public art project commisioned through limited competition client London Docklands Development Corporation; public art adviser Public Art Commissions Agency