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Aspire

Aspire is a work of art, constructed on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, in , . It is a 60-metre tall, red and orange steel sculpture, and was, until overtaken by Anish Kapoor's , the tallest free standing public work of art in the .
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Wikipedia
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork_type: sculpture
  • Description: sculpture by Ken Shuttleworth

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Learning Resource Centre and St Mary’s Church, Wollaton Park.

Library
The is a library on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham, England. The library houses books and resources relating to courses and research in the university's Faculty of Education and School of Computing Science, and also houses the Commonwealth Education Documentation Centre. is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Aspire.

Church
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
St. Mary's Church, Wollaton Park, is a in the Church of England. It is located in , . is situated 1,700 feet south of Aspire.

Movie theater
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on Derby Road in , England. It is the only surviving pre-Second World War cinema in Nottingham. is situated 2,400 feet east of Aspire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lenton and Radford.

Suburb
is an area of the city of , in the Nottingham district, in the ceremonial county of , England. Most of is situated in the electoral ward of 'Dunkirk and Lenton', with a small part in 'Wollaton East and Park'.

Suburb
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an inner-city area of and former civil parish in the Nottingham district, in the ceremonial county of , England, located just outside the city centre.

Suburb
is a residential area of , which is located to the south-east of the University of Nottingham and the .

Aspire

Latitude
52.95155° or 52° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-1.18461° or 1° 11′ 5″ west
Inception
July 14th, 2008
Height
197 feet (60 metres)
Open location code
9C4WXR28+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 327332680
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­monument
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Wiki­data ID
Q126397
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In Other Languages

From Czech to Spanish—“Aspire” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Aspire”
  • Dutch: “Aspire”
  • Finnish: “Aspire”
  • French: “Aspire”
  • Japanese: “アスパイア (立体芸術)”
  • Spanish: “Aspire (escultura)”
  • Spanish: “Aspire”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Prayer Room and Army Reserve Centre.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Aspire”. Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.