At least Dave Godin likes this:
I thought I would share a snapshot I just took of the new public art that now covers up the bare concrete end-cap of the elevated SkyTrain tracks at the Richmond-Brighouse station terminus of the Canada Line. It certainly is colourful and it reminds me a bit of the cluster of rocket engines on the spaceship that was recently re-installed in the reconfigured park beside the southern off-ramp of the Cambie Street Bridge, opposite the Olympic Village Canada Line station.
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If I’m not mistaken, the new public art in the photo was paid for in part, or perhaps in full, by the new mixed-use development that is under construction adjacent to the Richmond-Brighouse station.
There was an ideas/design competition a little while back for this art installation, but I missed the salient detail of who actually won, so seeing the successful design up on the tracks provided my first impression. I think it’s pretty cool.
Called “Cluster,” the sculpture was created by Carlyn Yandle, a former Editor with The Richmond Review newspaper. The installation will be up for a year before being replaced by another called SkyDam. I also quite like Cluster. It looks like the nerves inside the Canada Line guideway.
It may look better from more of a side angle, when more of the tubes’ colours are visible.
I wonder if the pigeons or swallows will roost in them ?