See it Split, See it Change at South Ferry Terminal

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See it Split, See it Change at South Ferry Terminal

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See it split, see it change is artists Mike and Doug Starns’ permanent installation commissioned and owned by MTA Arts for Transit for South Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The art links urban and natural networks. New York City’s physical origins are displayed as a 1640 map of Manhattan’s topography, overlaid with the current street grid and subway lines. Silhouetted images of trees and a single leaf’s venation preview Battery Park, located above the station. These elements form a two hundred fifty foot long, floor to ceiling, undulating wall, as well as a reinterpreted fare array fence at the station’s concourse entrance.

AMBA directed the project interface between the artists and the agency, providing comprehensive art = design services from schematic design through construction administration as a consultant to the MTA Arts + Design team. The firm worked closely with the artists to translate their photographic works into a glass and mosaic wall and a water jet cut, stainless steel fence.

Collaborating with the Starn Studio, the firm developed design solutions for the installation's details and provided the technical architectural documents and shop drawings review.

Images are generously provided by the Starn Studio.
Photographs: © Metropolitan Transportation Authority