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"Crocus"
Client: City of Taichung, Taiwan
Taichung's New City Center
Taichung, Taiwan
Date: June 2016
Dimensions: 72' high x 20' wide
Materials: Stainless steel and laminated glass
Managing Partners:  DEOA, Taipei, Taiwan
Steel Fabricators:  Dragon Town Steelworks, Taichung, Taiwan
Glass Fabrication:  SMS Glass Co., LTD, Taichung, Taiwan
Renderings and schematic drawings:  Curtis Pittman
Engineering:  KPFF, Portland, Oregon: Join Good, Taipei, Taiwan
 Photos:  Ed Carpenter and DEOA

CROCUS

“Crocus” is a dramatic focal point for the City of Taichung, Taiwan.  Rising 41’ above the intersection of two parks on the central axis of Taichung’s new City Center, “Crocus” is visible from the City Hall, the Opera House, and the many residential towers surrounding the site.  Utilizing imagery of the first flower to emerge each spring, “Crocus” symbolizes the emergence of Taichung itself.  The sculpture emerges from two levels of parking below the parks, surrounds a viewing platform, and unfolds upward like an enormous blossom.
 

Posted 22 June 2016

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During the day, light plays off polished surfaces of stainless steel and laminated glass. Carefully placed LED lighting dramatically illuminates the sculpture at night.  Ed Carpenter’s design was selected as winner in an international competition in November of 2014 and was completed in June of 2016.

Ed Carpenter
1812 NW 24th Avenue
Portland, Oregon USA 97210
+1 (503) 224-6729
info@edcarpenter.net
www.edcarpenter.net

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