The Solar Pyramid

The Solar Pyramid will be world’s largest solar timepiece and a sculptural structure of unsurpassed scale and beauty.

Richard Swain and Adam Walkden

Created by artist/architects Richard Lester Swain and Adam Walkden as a dynamic exploration of the transience of time, the Solar Pyramid is both a monumental work of art and a unique scientific instrument.

Of a truly topographical scale, the Solar Pyramid will rise out of the landscape as three inclined blades of mirror polished gold and green steel, to form the illusion of pyramidal shape. The point of largest blade, or gnomon, will be 75 metres (246 ft) above a raised oval horizontal plane, 100 metres (328 ft) in length. A ‘planetary piazza’ exploring the complex relationship of motions of the planet Earth and our star the Sun, and accurately recording the passage of time past, present and future.

A timeless experience of Time. A new Stonehenge for a New Age. A golden pyramid of the sun.