Blueprints at Addison Circle
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This is the Blueprints at Addison Circle sculpture.
Waymark Code: WM6TY0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2009
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Located in Addison Circle, this unique four-story sculpture offers a vision of Addison's past, present and future. A vase-like structure containing poles that reach out over the street are topped with five floating art panels, each a blueprint tracery of a phase in the town's development. Call 1-800-ADDISON for more information.
-Blueprints at Addison Circle is located in Addison Circle at Quorum Drive and Addison Circle Drive.
-Stands 45 feet high and 140 feet across.
-Blueprints art piece weighs 410,000 pounds, each pole weighs 9,000 pounds. It took more than 650-gallons of custom-mixed, Sherwin Williams "Sharpie Blue" paint for the piece.
-Poles were made in Houston and tapered cones at the top of the poles were made in New Jersey.
-Big D Metalworks of Texas and their subcontractors fabricated the sculpture.
-General contractors for the sculpture were Westerchil Construction.
-Artists: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Mel Chin. Van Valkenburgh is a professor in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Chin is an artist, originally from Houston, now living in Burnsville, North Carolina and has been an artist in residence at University of Georgia and Stanford University.
-Blueprints at Addison Circle celebrates Addison's history and its future.
-The five petals of Blueprints at Addison Circle contain detailed elements from the blueprints used to build many of the city's buildings and parks.
-Grand "Unveiling" event: April 13, 2000 (6 - 8:30 p.m.) all Addison residents, businesses and employees invited.
-Total cost for the sculpture is 2.1 million dollars, of which Post Properties contributed $450,000.
For more information regarding Blueprints at Addison Circle, please call Director of Development Services Carmen Moran at 972-450-7018.
Title: Blueprints at Addison Circle
Artist: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Mel Chin
Media (materials) used: Steel
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Quorum Circle
Date of creation or placement: April 13, 2000
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