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Van Alen Institute reveals winner of festive Flatiron holiday installation contest

Flatiron Sky-Line

Van Alen Institute reveals winner of festive Flatiron holiday installation contest

Common decency puts a kibosh on Christmas music before Thanksgiving, but New York’s Van Alen Institute wants you to think of the holidays extra early this year: Yesterday the group announced the winner of its annual contest that brings temporary architecture to the people of Manhattan.

New York– and Greece–based LOT was one of five firms invited to submit designs for the competition. Their winning installation, Flatiron Sky-Line, is a series of 10 arches fabricated from white powder-coated steel tubes and outfitted with LED lights. Hammocks draped on the arches will allow visitors a leisurely resting spot where they can to take in the city around them. For the past three years, the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District (BID) and Van Alen have partnered to bring a festive, holiday-themed installation on the North Flatiron Public Plaza, that concrete triangle at the intersection of Broadway, 5th Avenue, and 23rd Street. Last year, SOFTlab had the honor of activating the plaza with their psychedelic installation, Nova.

Flatiron Sky-Line is an engaging installation, creating a social space underneath the illuminated arched outline, a structure to walk within and around, gaze through it towards the skyline, and experience Flatiron’s surroundings through a certain lens,” said LOT co-founding principal Leonidas Trampoukis, in a statement. “The simplicity of the installation’s design will draw in audiences, and, we expect, produce significant feelings as they stand in one of our country’s most recognizable intersections.”

LOT’s residential and commercial interiors, as well as its sculptural displays, can be seen all over the globe: Recent work includes a boutique hotel overhaul in Mykonos, Greece, and the New York showroom for Paris-based designer Laure de Sagazan.

Flatiron Sky-Line will be officially unveiled on November 21.


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