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Columbia Subway Plaza and Station Entranceway, (sculpture)

Catalog Data

Sculptor:
Fleischner, Richard 1944-  Search this
Landscape architect:
Glaser, Richard  Search this
Pattison, Harriet  Search this
Architectural firm:
Mitchell/Giurgola Architects  Search this
Medium:
Stone, granite, brick, tiles, and trees
Type:
Sculptures-Gate
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
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.
Topic:
Architecture--Detail--Gate  Search this
Control number:
IAS PA001151
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_338507