Cardboard Pier

Over 1,000 people helped to build and topple a colossal six-story Cardboard Pier in Weston’s Prince Consort Garden over the last weekend of September 2026. And what fun was had! This was part of North Somerset Council’s imaginative engagement programme to involve local people in their project to restore the Grade II* Listed Birnbeck Pier. View the gallery below.

Photography by Paul Blakemore.

Footage by Sally Low, edited by Super Culture.

Weston’s Cardboard Pier was the brainchild of the visual artist, Olivier Grossetête, who is renowned for his epic temporary structures around the world.

Super Culture is supported by Arts Council England. North Somerset Council’s project to restore Birnbeck Pier is funded by over £44m secured from the UK government, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Historic England.