Third Avenue and 174th Street
Alice Adams
Glider Park, 1990
enameled steel and brick with site landscaping 40' x 12' x 11'
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Just outside the Bathgate Industrial Complex, in a plaza partitioned from the street, Glider Park provides a place to sit and rest. Its two steel pavilions offer a structure that is at once sculptural and reminiscent of an old fashioned porch glider—a furniture design more often associated with the home than an industrial park. Shapes in the screening overhead—that also appear as cast shadows—were developed in response to the Tim Rollins + KOS project located opposite the site on the wall of C.E.S. 4. Adams, whose works are found throughout the country, has described her public projects as "an attempt to make a 'place' rather than a 'thing'."
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Scale model for Glider Park
Scale model of Glider Park as seen from above
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