Coadministered by Temple University Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19122
Coadministered by Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Located Broad Street Subway Station Entrance at Broad Street & Cecil B. Moore Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Date:
1985-1986. Dedicated 1986
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Heritage Preservation SOS! survey of NEA Art in Public Places funded sculpture, 2002.
Summary:
The Broad Street subway station and adjacent plaza are integrated through architecture, trees, and sculpture into an effective entrance to Temple University. For the subway station, the architects designed a large head house with a glass roof that allows the sun to shine down on the subway platform. For the adjacent plaza, the landscape architects created a grassy area dotted with twenty London plane trees. The focal point of the plaza is a granite portal made by Richard Fleischner to symbolically represent the entrance to Temple University for students exiting the Broad Street subway station.