PUBLIC ART
ONE VANDERBILT PLAZA
One Vanderbilt Plaza Viewing Garden
Designed by acclaimed landscape architect, Peter Walker, One Vanderbilt features a pedestrian plaza connecting 42nd Street, the west entrances of Grand Central Terminal, West 43rd Street, and the office and transit entrances of the building. The Vanderbilt Plaza is paved with granite cobbles with a circular design radi- ating from a series of five discs containing canopy trees pruned to allow pedestrian views across the Plaza and seasonal and groundcover plantings in spring, summer, fall, and winter, much like the channel gardens at Rockefeller Plaza. The planted discs accommodate casual seating, and the trees provide a setting at a pleasing civic scale while relating timelessly both to the historic grandeur of the terminal architecture and the monumental modern tower. This classically elegant Plaza serves as a respectful and memorable new civic addition to East Midtown. This beautiful centerpiece located in One Vanderbilt’s transit hall was created by a Japanese based collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects whose work expresses the relationship between art, science, technology, and the natural world. This is teamLab’s first permanent installation in North America. The imagery of ever-changing flowers is generated in real time. It is not a prerecorded image on a loop. The installation is also integrated into the nature of its New York City environment. When the sun rises in Manhattan, the work becomes brighter. When night falls, the work becomes darker and more mysterious. Like a living garden, flowers change seasonally throughout the period of one year.
TRANSIT HALL
Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II, Grand Central Terminal
ARTIST: teamLab
LOCATION: Transit Hall
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