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New York Architecture
Images-Gramercy Park One
Union Square South. |
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architect
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Davis Brody Bond, LLP |
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location
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14th
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date
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1999 |
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style
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Post-Modernism |
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construction
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33 stories
developer The Related Companies, L.P.
structural engineering Rosenwasser/Grossman Consulting Engineers P.C. |
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Apartment
Building Theater |
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Metronome:
A MONUMENTAL PUBLIC ARTWORK BY KRISTIN JONES |
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notes
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The most desirable and fashionable address in New
York City today, One Union Square South is a dramatic 27-story luxury
rental that rises above the treetops of Union Square Park. Commanding
breathtaking views of Greenwich Village, the midtown skyline, and Union
Square's famed and festive Greenmarket, the building offers the perfect
combination of uptown luxury and downtown style.
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| FACT
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Metronome:
A MONUMENTAL PUBLIC ARTWORK BY KRISTIN JONES / ANDREW GINZEL
COMMISSIONED FOR ONE UNION SQUARE SOUTH AS A GIFT TO NEW YORK CITY
BY THE RELATED COMPANIES
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| Overview: |
Metronome,
the new public artwall created by the artist team Kristin Jones /
Andrew Ginzel, will begin to be installed the week of February 7,
1999 on the façade of One Union Square South - the 500,000
square-foot retail, entertainment and residential complex. Metronomewas
commissioned by The Related Companies, L.P., the Manhattan-based
owner/developer of One Union Square South, under the direction of
its founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stephen M. Ross,
as an unprecedented gift to the city. Metronomewas selected
after the Public Art Fund, acting as a consultant to the developer,
solicited nominations of more than 200 artists from curators,
critics and art professionals throughout the United States.
Measuring 100 by 60 feet at the central panel and costing almost $3
million, Metronomemarks one of the largest private
commissions of public art in New York's history.
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| Project
Background: |
In
January 1996, a national competition by invitation was organized by
the Public Art Fund on behalf of The Related Companies to select a
design for the complex's proposed public artwall. More than 100
submissions of the 200 nominations were selected to be reviewed by
an Advisory Panel composed of art experts, civic leaders and local
representatives, as well as representatives of The Municipal Art
Society and the design team of Davis Brody Bond, LLP, the architects
of One Union Square South. In December 1996, artists Kristin Jones
and Andrew Ginzel were awarded the project.
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| Location: |
Visible
for twenty-eight blocks Metronomewill punctuate the southern
terminus of Park Avenue South - just as Grand Central Station, with
its south-facing clock, punctuates the street's northern terminus.
Overlooking Union Square, Metronomewill be constructed on the
northern façade of the complex at One Union Square South, fronting
14th Street.
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| Description: |
Metronomeis
an innovative work consisting of three primary components. The
entire work symbolizes the intangibility of time which is reflected
in the relationship between various elements in the piece. The
central component, measuring 100 feet high and 60 feet wide, is
formed of an undulating brick wall emanating from the heart of the
work - a dark circular void surrounded by gold leaf overlay that
dissipates across the panel into gold fragments - like the rippling
of water caused by a single stone, diminishing in frequency across
the vertical plane. Below, a massive rock juts out through the
undulating brick wall, grounding the work. To the left of the
central component, on the glass façade, is a digital timepiece
which counts the twenty-four hours of the day while simultaneously
subtracting the time remaining in the day. To the right, is the
lunar timepiece, composed of a sphere set into a socket, which is
synchronized to revolve with the phases of the moon.
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| Artists: |
Kristin
Jones and Andrew Ginzel have collaborated since 1985. Recent
site-specific commissions include: a commission from the Arts for
Transit program of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority
entitled Oculus at the World Trade Center Station to be completed in
spring 1999; Apostasy, a commission at the 1996 Olympic Arts
Festival in Atlanta; Interim, a project for the Next Wave Festival
of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1995); Sounding, a project for the
Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia (1994); a commission
for the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program for
Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City entitled Mnemonics
(1992); and Principia, a commission from the One Percent for Art
Project Program at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland (1990).
In 1994, they received the Rome Prize from the American Academy in
Rome, Italy, a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts, a Pollock-Krasner fellowship, and the Cité
International des Arts Residency in Paris, France.
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| Fabrication: |
Metronomeis
an unprecedented work in terms of its scale and complexity. Unlike
many other works of art which are constructed in one location, Metronomelinks
artisans, architectural and engineering professionals from across
the country. The wall itself represents their attention to quality
and detail and symbolizes the triumph of the magnificent over the
mundane.
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| Installation: |
Metronomewill
begin to be installed the week of February 7, 1999 and should take
approximately three months.
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| Cost: |
Metronomemarks
one of the largest private commissions of public art in New York
ever. The total cost of the project is nearly $3 million.
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| The
Related Companies: |
The
Related Companies, headed by Chairman and Chief Executive Stephen M.
Ross, owns and manages residential, retail and commercial properties
worth more than $7 billion in 40 states. The Related Companies was
recently awarded the Coliseum site on Columbus Circle by the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority. In addition to One Union
Square South, current developments include luxury rental towers on
the Upper East and Upper West sides and Battery Park City North. The
Related Companies has also commenced construction on The Chatham, a
new super-luxury condominium development located on East 65th Street
and Third Avenue and will begin the rehabilitation of the historic
Guardian Life Building at 50 Union Square located on East 17th
Street. The commission of Metronomewas spearheaded by Mr.
Ross and his colleague David J. Wine, President of Related
Residential Development.
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| Photography: |
Computer-generated
renderings of Metronomeare currently available. After
February, process installation images and final color images will be
available upon request.
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