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架构师提供的文本描述。阿加普神庙是莫拉格·迈尔索夫和卢克·摩根为夏季“爱情节”委托南岸中心建造的临时建筑。阿加普神庙是对人类爱的一种庆祝，这是古希腊七大爱情主题之一。

Text description provided by the architects. The Temple of Agape, a temporary installation created by Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan commissioned by the Southbank Centre for their summer ‘Festival of Love’. The Temple of Agape is a celebration of the love of humanity, one of the seven Ancient Greek themes of love represented at the Festival.

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南岸中心的夏季艺术节将展示各种形式的爱。一系列周末将通过一系列的工作坊、表演和装置来探讨古希腊爱情的七个主题。古代七大主题：阿加普、斯托格、普拉格马、菲利亚、菲罗蒂亚、爱神

Southbank Centre’s summer festival will showcase love in all its forms. A series of weekends will explore the seven Ancient Greek themes of love through an array of workshops, performances and installations. The seven ancient themes: Agape, Storge, Pragma, Philia, Philautia, Eros & Ludos. The Finale weekend, is the Big Wedding Weekend, inspired by Agape — the love of humanity. To celebrate the year in which same-sex marriage became legal, all couples, gay or straight, young or old, are invited to marry or renew vows on the stage of the iconic Royal Festival Hall.

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南岸的灵感来自马丁·路德·金(MartinLutherKing)关于爱的话：我决定坚持爱。所以他们问艺术家莫拉格

The Southbank were inspired by what Martin Luther King said about love: I have decided to stick with Love. So they asked the artists Morag & Luke to incorporate these words into their Temple.

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“爱情是最情绪化的话题，被要求考虑如何表达七种爱中的一种”阿格普“是极具挑战性和发人深省的。”爱-人类的爱对我们来说是完美的，在开始的时候，“爱”我们想，我们都知道，它在我们周围，我们已经感受到了，因此我们应该知道如何在我们的工作中表达它。但是当我们开始思考这个问题和所有陈词滥调的时候，你是如何做一些新的事情的呢？

‘Love is the most emotive subject and to be asked to consider how to express " Agape" one of the 7 types of Love was hugely challenging and thought provoking. Agape — the Love of humanity felt perfect for us and at the beginning easy, ‘Love’ we thought, we all know about it, its all around us, we have felt it and therefore we should know how to express it in our work. But when we started thinking about it and all the clichés how do you do something that is new?

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我们去过很多地方，体验过很多类型的地方，建造了一座爱的神殿，营造了一个欢乐和喧闹的地方，以及安静的沉思。

We have travelled widely and experienced many types of places, building a temple of Love felt right, making a place for joy and noise as well as quiet contemplation.

这座庙宇从莫拉格在火车上的最初素描中迅速发展起来。

The temple developed very quickly from the initial sketch Morag did on a train.

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游行队伍以一条60米长的霓虹灯丝带开始，这一系列爱的长椅通向寺庙的入口处。游客可以通过或停下来，坐在星星点点的寺庙里，然后爬上悬挂着横幅和标语的楼梯，组成欢快的游行队伍，到达南岸中心的下一层。该装置为游客在节日期间体验新的景色和皇家节日大厅阳台的新入口创造了机会。

The Agape procession begins with a neon ribboned 60m canopied series of love benches which lead to the entrance of the temple. The visitor can then journey through or stop and sit in the dappled lit temple and then proceed up the flight of stairs festooned with banners and signs that form a joyful parade to the next level of the Southbank Centre. The installation creates the chance for visitors to experience new views and a new entrance to the Royal Festival Hall balcony for the duration of the festival.

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我们的庙宇大胆而轻率，告诉你过来，“看着我！”我穿得很好，为爱做好了准备！“进来吧，进来吧！”圣殿像孔雀一样骄傲地站在那里，用它的巨人马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King)的话来表达爱的力量。它的内心是平静的，点缀着光来思考复杂的情感，这是一个可以用内在表达的爱来改变的地方。

"Our temple is bold and brash, telling you to come over and "Look at me! I'm well-dressed and ready for Love! Come in, come in!" The Temple stands proud like a peacock with its giant Martin Luther King quote, expressing the power of love to the world. Inside its heart is calm and dappled with light for contemplating complex emotions, a place that can transform with Love expressed within.

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这座庙宇高8米，宽12米。由脚手架结构而成，支撑着数百个字，表面覆盖着手绘。在莫拉格的工作室里，在两名助手利齐·图尔的帮助下，画了300多块不同尺寸的木板，为期三周。

The temple stands 8m high and 12m wide. Made from a scaffold structure, supporting hundreds of words and clad with hand-painted exterior ply. Over 300 wooden panels of varying sizes were painted in Morag’s studio other a three week period with the help of two assistants, Lizzie Toole & Kathryn Cross and a group of great volunteers who gave their time unconditionally.

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Morag & Luke say, ‘Working on the project has reinforced for us that love in all its guises is not simple. At the same time, when you are in love, it can be the purest and simplest place to be.

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Architects Morag Myerscough , Luke Morgan

Location London, United Kingdom

Category Temporal Installations

Artists Morag Myerscough, Luke Morgan

Project Year 2014

Photographs Gareth Gardner, Supergrouplondon