![]() ![]() Now it is possible in Tampere! In the year 2020, three underpasses were painted with a lot of colours. If you go through that underpass almost every day, wouldn’t it be nice to see some colours? No colours, few lights… Maybe some writings on the wall. And it’s kind of a neat idea that you would bring this place to your consciousness through this little trick, if you will.Do you know underpasses? They are usually grey concrete, at least in Finland. And when you go to places like this, you’re going to think about something else when you’re driving through it. There’s so much information coming in from your physical environment that you’ve got to kind of filter it out. “Typically, people’s brains kind of shut off. You’re looking for information and you’re not finding it,” Reed says. “The positive thing about it, I would say - similar to what we did at I-35 - is your consciousness piques when you go through there. Reed is quick to come to the defense of “Moments.” He was actually a teaching assistant for a class Trominski took at UT’s School of Architecture. “There are these spaces in American cities now that are these kind of residual, leftover spaces that you might travel through - but no one seems to really possess,” says Phil Reed, the architect behind the I-35 lighting installation. Phil Reed and the I-35 lighting installation he helped design. The colored panels on the walls have become faded and worn. ![]() Personally, I have never come across anyone with a kind thing to say about “Moments.”Ī few years after it was installed, the solar-powered lighting system was damaged and removed. ![]() Since then, the work has become almost universally unappreciated. The signs were also meant to be an “abstract reference to musical notes” and act as a “shadow indicator of the day’s progression.” The blue lighting was meant to “mark a spot in the endless miles of sodium orange lighting,” a reference to the type of streetlights used in the area. He wanted to respond to that with these signs.” And he also noted that people were rowing on the lake and the dip of the oars as they went down the lake was a kind of rhythmic experience. “He noted that the people running along the lake are doing so rhythmically and those signs were intended to mimic that rhythm. “ was actually thinking about those blue signs in ways of responding to the lake,” Lambe says. The original rendering for "Moments" at night (left) and what it looks like today. The group narrowed it to four finalists and ultimately chose a design by an architect named Carl Trominski. Thirty-one proposals were submitted by 28 artists. Want news alerts from KUT? Subscribe through our Facebook Messenger bot. “Council actually looked at what can we do in this area to enliven it, to make it look more interesting and more beckoning to that area that is just north of the Lamar underpass,” says Sue Lambe, who directs Austin’s Art in Public Places program. The origins go back to the year 2000, when the Austin City Council asked for a study to see how the city could make the underpass look a little nicer. But there’s no plaque or description of what they might be. They're actually art, one of more than 260 pieces in the City of Austin's Art in Public Places collection. "I had a friend suggest they might be for diverting airflow?" Bauman says. They’re highway rest stop blue, set at odd angles. There are about eight or nine of them on each side of the underpass, sticking out over the sidewalk. “ looks like somebody just cut up some old highway signs and it’s a practical joke,” she says. So she asked about them for our ATXplained project. When you're driving down Lamar Boulevard between Lady Bird Lake and Fifth Street, do you ever look at the walls of the underpass beneath the train bridge? Do you look at those blank blue signs on the walls of the underpass and wonder: What the heck are those things? ![]()
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