For five years now, New York City’s Times Square Alliance has made a call to architects and designers for submissions of a Times Square romantic public art display celebrating Valentine’s Day. This year’s is one with a tie and a punch. Titled Heartwalk, the instillation designed by Situ Studio, is at once altruistic and inherently New York-ian.
© Keith Sirchio
Created from boardwalk planks salvaged from New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the heart-shaped enclosure is illuminated from within its formal volume. Planks lift from a flat plane, creating new space and allowing entrance to a hollowed ground of sorts. If one choses, there’s a metaphor in there… The Heartwalk will be on display until 8 March, 2013.
© Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- Courtesy of SITU Studio
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- Courtesy of SITU Studio
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- Courtesy of SITU Studio
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- Courtesy of SITU Studio
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- Left to right: Tim Tompkins, President, Times Square Alliance Aleksey Lukyanov, Situ Studio Sherry Dobbin, Director of Public Art, Times Square Arts Westley Rozen, Situ Studio Susan Chin, FAIA, Executive Director, Design Trust for Public Space Basar Girit, Situ Studio Bradley Samuels, Situ Studio Rachel Knutson, Integrated Communications Planner, General Mills (Cheerios is the official sponsor of Heartwalk) © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
