Viewing the Meditation Chapel from its exterior, visitors perceive the intent of the work through gold colored aluminum panels hosting lighted lotus designs. The panels are also experienced from the interior, where another lotus pattern (a symbol of healing) is projected onto the floor.
Photograph by Dick Busher
Meditation Room is a numinous environment with light entering the room through a gold leaf screen tints the space with yellow, blue and green bo leafs. Looking up the visitor beholds a geometrical pattern of converging lines and concentric circles, while a third ephemeral pattern is projected onto the floor echoing the mandala of the ceiling.
Photographs by Richard Stode
In the International District Plaza, a relief mural consists of 9 bays hosting a sequence of painted folded aluminum panels. The origami sequence begins in the far bays as relatively flat designs, and progresses to the center where they fold into two figures, a man and a woman.
Photographs by Dick Busher
Recollections laminated into the glass of two heated platform shelters, colorful circles that frame historical images, many of which come from photo collections of the families in the surrounding neighborhoods. Approaching the stations passengers witness colorful dots dancing across the glass’ surfaces. Upon further inspection, they discover the historical and contemporary images of their community.
Photographs by Jim Hirschfield
Beads focused on the columns in the Meeter-Greeter lobby of the Houston airport and became colorful focal points within the radial design of the space. Used by so many contemporary and ancient cultures, and traded for millenniums across the globe, beads became an appropriate icon for the meeter-greeter lobby of the airport where travelers from around the world first enter Houston.
Photographs by Paul Hester
With two hundred and ninety six (296), eight inch discs, and a little over a quarter of the discs hosting quotes on the experience of walking, the experience of cycling, and the experience of being mindful of ones surroundings, A Mindful Bridge celebrates the pedestrian and the cyclist and is meant to send messages of confirmation to those crossing the bridge, turning the crossing of a twelve lane interstate into a more peaceful and meaningful experience.
Photographs by Jim Hirschfield
Pirouette consists of 30 cubes, fabricated from steel and perforated steel, that are suspended from the ceiling of a multi-purpose space within a Children’s Hospital. The cubes were painted with Dichromatic paint that changed color depending upon where one stood or moved within the space, creating for the children the feeling of standing within a large kaleidoscope.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon is comprised of two 16 foot diameter disks recessed into the ceiling. Lit from above, these discs illuminate the space through laser-cut images. One disk hosts a solar pattern with an image of a solar eclipse at its center, while the other is a stellar pattern with a lunar image at its hub.
Photos by Chris Arend
Ring of Fire is a gazebo whose ceiling hosts an elegant flowing-lava design. Daylight highlights the design as the sun casts the ceiling pattern shadows onto the plaza. At night, light illuminates the lava pattern with strategically placed spots lights.
Photographs by Dick Busher
Re-Union addresses the importance of communication as it presents an opportunity for the students of Union high school to create their own images or texts that express their thoughts about their school and their lives. The adjacent photo-etched panels allude to the original high school’s history through images from the original school while the brightly painted bell came from the area’s original school house.
Our design for a pedestrian bridge to the African region of the North Carolina Zoo establishes a water theme and includes: a thatched gazebo with a story telling soundtrack, a railing of brightly painted metal interspersed with ceramic jugs, and a dry dock/gateway at the bridges entrances.
Through a variety of enhancements (color tiles, landscaping, etched stainless steel images, accordion walls, light boxes, and a pedestrian land bridge) Illusion of Place strives to create was for this new chapter in the Petroglyphs monument’s history that while different, does not deny its past.
School Spirits was created for the Town of Cary’s new Arts Center. Designed in collaboration with artist Norie Sato, the work uses historical images from the building's past when it served as the community's high school. These images include old student portraits that are projected onto the walls of the theater’s entry corridors, creating arrangements of light that can be enjoyed both for their patterns and for the individual personalities portrayed in each design.
“And the seasons they go 'round and 'round,
And the painted ponies go up and down.
We're captive on the carousel of time.
We can't return we can only look behind.
From where we came,
And go round and round and round In the circle game.”
― Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game
Carousel is the literal and figurative concept of the much-loved amusement ride. In our design, the whirling of the carousel is recreated as travelers drive around the roundabout hosting its sculptural pavilion. A carousel is a delight to children, and a source of recollection and nostalgia for adults. At the same time, it is a profound motif for life: With all life’s ups and downs, what goes around, comes around, and life should be a journey of discovery, with us as voyagers looking to see ‘what’s around the bend’. Carousel’s Parrots, the mascot of the very near Polytechnic High School, adds bright color to the roundabout and adds an amusing reference to the roundabout’s neighborhood nicknamed “The Polly”.