Times Square Valentine Heart

New York, NY, United States

Popular Winner, 2015 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Communication

Jury Winner, 2015 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Communication

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Times Square Valentine Heart

New York, NY, United States

Popular Winner, 2015 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Communication

Jury Winner, 2015 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Communication

Project Featured on Mar 22, 2015

Firm

Young Projects

Type

Cultural › Sculpture

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2014

Photos

Ka-Man Tse (3)

The Match-Maker cosmically connects people this Valentine’s Day. Guided by their zodiac sign, visitors arrange themselves at twelve points around the heart-shaped sculpture. Peering through colorful, interwoven periscopes provides glimpses of each viewer’s four most ideal astrological mates, offering potential novel connections between lonely souls or settled lovers. The form of the sculpture is elusive, complex, symmetrical, and changes as viewers experience it from different vantage points throughout Times Square. From many points of view it forms a perfect and iconic heart, from other perspectives it is tangled and perplexing.

The Match-Maker is the result of collaboration with fabricator Kammetal, Trojan Powder Coating, contractor Taocon, graphic designer Dungjai, lighting designers Lighting Workshop, and structural engineers Robert Silman Associates.