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Fleischner, Richard,
Glaser, Richard,
Pattison, Harriet,
Mitchell/Giurgola Architects,
Architecture -- Detail
Gate
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Columbia Subway Plaza and Station Entranceway, (sculpture).
Artist:
Fleischner, Richard, 1944- , sculptor.
Glaser, Richard, landscape architect.
Pattison, Harriet, landscape architect.
Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, architectural firm.
Title:
Columbia Subway Plaza and Station Entranceway, (sculpture).
Dates:
1985-1986. Dedicated 1986.
Medium:
Stone, granite, brick, tiles, and trees.
Dimensions:
Approx. H. 2040 in. x W. 2160 in.
Description:
The Broad Street subway station and adjacent plaza are integrated through architecture, trees, and sculpture into an effective entrance to Temple University. For the subway station, the architects designed a large head house with a glass roof that allows the sun to shine down on the subway platform. For the adjacent plaza, the landscape architects created a grassy area dotted with twenty London plane trees. The focal point of the plaza is a granite portal made by Richard Fleischner to symbolically represent the entrance to Temple University for students exiting the Broad Street subway station.
Subject:
Architecture -- Detail -- Gate
Object Type:
Gate
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Coadministered by Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
Coadministered by Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Located Broad Street Subway Station, Entrance at Broad Street & Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Remarks:
Funded with a National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places grant of $50,000 given in 1982 to Temple University. This sculpture project was initiated by Temple University as a way to make the area safer and more attractive. The city remodeled the subway station and the university built the adjacent plaza. Mitchell/Giurgola Architects was the architectural firm for both projects. The project was supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the William Penn Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Heritage Preservation SOS! survey of NEA Art in Public Places funded sculpture, 2002.
Illustration:
Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 254.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS PA001151
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