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'Agua Luces' project to shine lights on Tampa bridges for RNC / Josh Poltilove August 8, 2012
On Friday, Chicago artist Tracey Dear's "Agua Luces" project will illuminate the undersides of the downtown bridges. The permanent installations designed to beautify the spans was completed weeks before the Aug. 27-30 Republican National Convention comes to Tampa. |
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Tampa bridges illuminated in time for RNC / Stef DiPietrantonio August 10, 2012
"You've got this beautiful, natural element right in the middle of your city, you should magnify that," said Tracey Dear, a Chicago artist who is the artistic genius behind the project.The "Aqua Luces," or water lights, are a permanent, artistic installation.The undersides of Tampa's downtown bridges are now glowing nightly, and that has Mayor Bob Buckhorn beaming with pride. |
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Agua Luces
Led by Mayor Buckhorn, Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas, and the Lights On Tampa Committee, Lights On Tampa: Agua Luces is an initiative to permanently light nine landmark bridges in downtown Tampa. To-date, five of the nine bridges, have been illuminated by lighting artist, Tracey Dear. The bridges are: Platt Street Bridge, Brorein Street Bridge, Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority overpass, Kennedy Boulevard Bridge, and the CSX Railroad Bridge. |
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Burnham Pavilion / Zaha Hadid August 24, 2009
The figure of Daniel Burnham has been very important for the city of Chicago as we currently know it, as he was one of the authors of the Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan, which reshaped Chicago’s central area starting in 1909. To celebrate the centennial of this plan...two pavilions by UN Studio and Zaha Hadid have been temporally installed at the Millenium Park, hosting multimedia exhibits on the future of Chicago. |
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Chicago Tribune
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Coming Wednesday: An inside look at Zaha's 'Pod' in Millennium Park August 17, 2009
If you want to know more about Zaha Hadid's Burnham Plan Centennial pavilion--a.k.a. "The Pod"--I've got just the thing for you: This Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., two members of the design and construction team that worked on the project will join the dean of the IIIinois Institute of Technology's architecture school to discuss the pavilion's creation. |
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The Z-pod has landed, delayed but worth the
wait August 5, 2009
With its arresting combination of naturalistic forms and alien shapes, plus a dazzling video installation, the pavilion does exactly what it's supposed to do: invite us to boldly contemplate the future, just as Burnham foresaw a better Chicago -- with new lakefront parks and infrastructure -- amid the traffic-choked, noisy and polluted city of his day. |
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Populist gem joins ‘Cloud Gate’ at Millennium Park June 18, 2009
Traditionalists recoiled last summer when it was announced that two paragons of the architectural avant-garde -- Zaha Hadid of London and Ben van Berkel of Amsterdam -- would design temporary pavilions in Millennium Park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Burnham Plan. |
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Wall Street Journal
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Chicago, city without limits June 20, 2009
In the history of American urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago stands alone not only in its innate elegance but also in its astonishing ambition. With near hubris it counseled that the people of Chicago “must ever recognize the fact that their city is without bounds or limits,” and that they themselves are “a population capable of indefinite expansion.” |
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