Shards of Beauty

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Shards of Beauty

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Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway

One of 5 finalists in SEPTA's 2010 public art competition for the Girard Street Subway Station remodeling project. The brief called for the design of the infill panels in 8 staircases in the newly remodeled station. With a total of over 80 panels, a solution was devised to create 4 sets of panels based around the themes of love, history, community, and music. Themes important to the city and people of Philadelphia. And each set of these panels would be uniquely fabricated using Rimex electrolytically enhanced stainless steel panels fabricated by A. Zahner through waterjet cut outs. The 4 themes would be distributed over the 2 platforms that each had 4 sets of staircases each, on the inbound and outbound platforms. The cut out patterns were designed to related to the 4 themes over-layed with abstract patterns to evoke both a precise and more ethereal impressionistic design concurrently.

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Gregory Hurcomb

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Nadine Kashlan

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Shards of Beauty

Shards of Beauty

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