Urban Intervention in Times Square
mmmm…- Type Ephemeral Architecture Public space
- Material Wood
- City New York
- Country United States
Meeting Bowls is a public art project carried out with the support of the Times Square Alliance, Spain Culture New York and the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and was located in the famous New York square between August and October 2011, during which time it is estimated that the installation was seen by more than 20,000,000 pedestrians. Meeting Bowls are social benches designed to meet and get to know each other, to meet and socialize, places for debate, furniture that humanizes the city. With a height of 1.5 meters and a diameter of 2.5 meters, Meeting Bowls are very large bowls in which eight people can enter and sit. They are hemispherical capsules placed in the street so that pedestrians can look at each other, social benches somewhat more intimate than usual, and are designed so that the weight of people entering the bowls generates a slight swaying, a swaying that is relaxing, as if it were a swing for adults found in the street...[+]