Client: Arts For Transit
Location: New York, NY, United States
Completion date: 2002
Artwork budget: $1,000,000
Project Team
Artist
Christopher Sproat
Christopher Sproat
Architect
Gruzon/ Sampton Architects
Gruzon/ Sampton Architects
Overview
This 640' long sculpture provides all the lighting, signage, fans, speakers and emergency needs for the entire # 7 subway platform at Grand Central Station in NYC.
Goals
Normally, the stations hang every functional need from the ceiling separately. The result is a clutter of conduit and stuff hanging down with no elegance. I chose to integrate all those needs and space for future wiring into a coherent, functional form that is robustly commanding and elegant.
Process
I worked within all the standards for lighting, signage etc. that the Transit Authority established. I also worked with the station architects to get my ideas into their drawings. The process took 7 years.