Harbourside artwork commissioned

The artworks will be installed in residential and office areas

Art installations have been commissioned to adorn the £360m development of Bristol's Harbourside.

Artists, including Turner Prize nominees Langland and Bell, have been asked to create pieces for the development's main walkways.

Developers Crest Nicholson said work to turn the 16-acre site into offices, shops and homes is on schedule, with some buildings ready to open in months.

The entire redevelopment is due to be completed in 2012.

Langland and Bell will be creating a piece called Domain, a minimal stone piece six metres in diameter and inscribed with internet country domain codes such as '.uk' and '.jp'.

Bristol artist Richard Box, known for his Field work of fluorescent tubes lit by overhead power lines, will create a fibre optic piece to be installed in Spring 2006.

More than 80 people have already bought homes

Developers said the Harbourside project is one of Europe's biggest construction sites, with 600 people employed on site and £9m spent cleaning up the previously contaminated gas works.

More than 80 people have bought homes in the "360" residential complex, and work is set to begin building 272 waterside homes.

Affordable housing plans have been approved and applications submitted this month to Bristol City Council for 150,000 sq ft of office space on Anchor Road.

Marks & Spencer, Gala Brittania and Ibis hotels will move to the commercial area.

The project executive Robert Knight said: "After two years, we are on schedule and although there have been a number of challenges along the way, everything is on track for the delivery of the Harbourside to the people of Bristol on time and on budget."

Broadmead and Temple Quarter are also being developed as part of regeneration schemes in Bristol.