Total Environment, (sculpture).

Total Environment, (sculpture).

Neijna, Barbara, 1937- , sculptor.

Guba, Stuart B., architect.

Salking, Larry, architect.

Total Environment, (sculpture).

Installed 1986.

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Sculpture: painted aluminum; Plaza: paving stones.

2 parts. Sculpture: approx. H. 60 ft.; Plaza: approx. W. 180 ft. x D. 180 ft.

This two-part abstract sculpture was conceived of as a visual environment for the front of the Independence Place Condominiums. In the center of the entrance plaza is an abstract sculpture composed of architectural forms including a column, a square wall, an arch linked to a low curving wall, and a curved pole that resembles a lamppost. At the entrance to the building is an assemblage of shapes, including a drive-through portal lined with columns. All of the elements are painted a bright white.

Abstract -- Geometric

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Independence Place Condominiums, 6th Street & Locust walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

The initiator for the project was the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia. IAS files contain an excerpt from Penny Balkin Bach's "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 255.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.

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