Client: City of Fort Lauderdale

Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

Completion date: 2014

Project Team

Architect

Dain Giannattasio

Dain Giannattasio

Client

Diana Alacron

Transportation and Mobility Director

Artist

Henning Haupt

Overview

“The Tunnel” is entrance to the Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale, a pedestrian passageway connecting the campus to the city’s parking garage.
The composition was executed on walls and ceilings under the existing ramps by adding transparent layers of red, yellow and blue varnish. Layer-by-layer an inseparable architectural color-space construction was orchestrated on site in a painterly process merging our physical space with the color-space.

Goals

Revitalisation of a space in the public garage.

Process

Preparation of the location was provided by the facility management of the City, Department of Transportation.

Additional Information

The Tunnel got voted as the best public art project in Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach by the Broward - Palm Beach New Times magazine. It was reviewed in “Miami Curbed”, shown on the cover and reviewed in an article of “Go Riverwalk”. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/bestof/2014/award/best-public-art-2272920/ http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/03/fort-lauderdale-public-art-the-tunnel.php http://www.goriverwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/GRW-March-issue-low-rez.pdf