bringing meaning to that statue back
1) Tower of Light
by Ed Carpenter, in front of Orlando City Hall
(400 S. Orange Avenue)
Orlando City Hall Plaza Tower is an
illuminated 60' high stainless steel and laminated
glass monument at the heart of downtown Orlando,
Florida. Placed at the point where the centerline of
the city´s main business boulevard, Orange Avenue,
intersects a diagonal axis from the front door of
the new City Hall, the tower celebrates physically
and metaphorically the intersection of private and
public interests in Orlando, and is a symbol for the
aspirations of the community.
The tower was commissioned after a series of public
meetings in which the need for a monument was
conceived. Ed Carpenter designed the tower and
oversaw its fabrication and erection, working with a
variety of consultants, material suppliers, and
fabricators from the U.S. and Japan, as well as
on-site contractors. The tower is illuminated at
three different levels by computerized lights
programmed to accentuate its botanical metaphor.
Installation: 1992.
Dimensions: 60' x 10'.
Materials: Laminated plate glass and stainless
steel; computerized lighting.
Client: City of Orlando City, FL.
Engineers: K.P.F.F., Portland, Oregon.
Steel Fabrication and Installation: Fabrication
Specialties, Ltd., Seattle, WA.
Glass Fabrication: Tempglass, Inc., Perrysburg,
Ohio.
Lighting Design: Craig Marquardt, Boring, Oregon.
Design Consultation: Heller and Leake Architects,
San Francisco, CA.
THE ARTIST "ED CARPENTER'S" WEBSITE.
http://www.edcarpenter.net/portfolio/0201.html
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this is a great thing that needs to be repeated world wide.....
The late John Lennon tried to "imagine all the people living life in peace." So it was only fitting that on day when he would've celebrated his 67th birthday, his widow Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island near Reykjavik, Iceland.
The tower is a stories-tall beam of light that will radiate from a wishing well bearing the words "imagine peace" in 24 languages. It will be lit each year between Oct. 9 and Dec. 8.
Ono, 74, said she came up with the concept for the light tower in 1965, and that Lennon was interested. "This is the biggest birthday present I gave to John," she said last month. The former Beatle was shot dead outside their New York apartment building Dec. 8, 1980, by deranged fan Mark David Chapman.
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