642Jury CommendationLIT! - BEACONS ON CITY DARK SPOTSBeacons fill the dark vacancy by encouraging people to gather with light and warmth. Located in Bryant Park in Manhattan, "LIT!-Beacons on City Dark Spots" is an urban design program that consists of a playground, an outdoor theater, and a performance space. The playful pavilions attract civic events to the public park, especially during the night time.
635ARCADED MID-AIRARCADED MID-AIR encourages people to climb away from everyday life to fragmented leisure time. Isolation between the city and its inhabits exists due to the side effects of fast development. The scaffold arcade installation functions as vertical urban furniture to elevate people?s experience in public, and to re-connect them with the physical environment.
1102CitationKaleidoscope-PeriscopeThe Kaleidoscope-Periscope is an inhabitable viewfinder. People leave the world of the city only to encounter a distorted world mixed with fragments of their own images. The mirrored steel surfaces and the conical shell structure create a rigid kaleidoscope that produces patterns reflected from Biltmore Park’s tree canopy and the city skyline beyond.
