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Lighting project ready to give greenhouse a gemlike glow
Thursday, August 7, 2008
BY TIM FERAN
The Franklin Park Conservatory is ready to shed light — times 7,000 — on its landmark greenhouse.
During a public gathering Friday, artist James Turrell will give an old building a new perspective with a permanent installation that will keep the Palm House glowing colorfully from dusk to dawn daily.
“We’re revealing the extra personality of the building at night,” Turrell said recently during a break from programming the computer-controlled display. In effect, he said, the Victorian-era glass building on E. Broad Street will assume a new persona after the sun sets.
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By Tracy Zollinger Turner
August 7, 2008
Most of us don’t give much thought to all of the light we absorb, reflect, avoid, manipulate or use in a given day. We don’t think about where it came from or where it might be headed. It’s simply a fact of our lives.
Throughout his career as an artist, James Turrell has explored light’s palpable and improbable qualities, as a source of nourishment with a living history and broad possibilities for exploration, as well as its relationship to space. For the past four decades, he has sculpted it, framed it and determined new ways to help viewers perceive it differently. His work has made him a luminary in the art world, metaphorically and literally.
Over two years ago, he turned his eyes on the Palm House at Franklin Park Conservatory, where his new, permanent light installation will be unveiled this weekend.
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Who’s going Friday? I’ll go.
I wonder where dude is tonight, if he’s in town or what… wish I could get an earful of talking with him.
This is just… I spent ten years in Columbus, and finally something fun has happened. I’m going to try out that new Keno. This is it.
Old Gil’s finally made it!
Greenhouse gets that gemlike glow…
If John F. offers to sponsor you, Just Say No. Otherwise you’ll have to change your name.
If John F. offers to sponsor you, Just Say No. Otherwise you’ll have to change your name.
I’ll always accept sponsorship. This life sponsored by…
besides, I have so much fun with it…greenhouse gas (only after taco bell), going green…
Well played, sir. ;)
Friday, August 8, 2008
Not only is the landmark Palm House at the Franklin Park Conservatory getting a new look tonight, when a $1 million lighting system is officially turned on, but the glass structure also is getting a new name.
The conservatory’s board has renamed the historic glass structure after John F. Wolfe, publisher of The Dispatch and chairman and chief executive officer of The Dispatch Printing Company.
“The John F. Wolfe Palm House stands as a tribute to his dedication to the conservatory and the community,” said Bruce Harkey, the conservatory’s executive director. “His good deeds are the legacy that reminds us all of what it means to give selflessly, as a neighbor and a friend.”
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i really like Turrell’s work, see other thread. but I am sort of hoping that the “John Wolfe Palm House” doesn’t always glow in these candy aisle colors. I was hoping for something cleaner, that just gave the Palm House a warm, somewhat ominous glow on the horizon:
Still, with this + the existing Chihuly collection, the FPC is really setting itself out there as a destination point for Columbus.
My wife and I just got back from our first visit to the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh with the amazing Turrell installations. I’m really excited that someone of his caliber has worked with a building as public as Franklin Park. He’s got clout, they’ve got clout, and now they make beautiful music together.
I wonder where dude is tonight, if he’s in town or what… wish I could get an earful of talking with him.
This is just… I spent ten years in Columbus, and finally something fun has happened. I’m going to try out that new Keno. This is it.
Old Gil’s finally made it!
Looks awesome. Lots of lighting action going on in town. I love the lighting around the airport that keeps being added underneath the overpasses.
Columbus, the Shanghai of America
I wonder where dude is tonight, if he’s in town or what… wish I could get an earful of talking with him.
As I understand, he’ll be speaking a bit beforehand, then officially lighting the palm house at 9 p.m.
hehehehe :lol:
reminds me of the view heading down 315south on a clear night
greenhouse wins this thread. :lol:
hey, watch what you’re comparing my hometown to. i might come and shank you while you sleep. :twisted:
milwaukee’s marcus center might be a more apt comparison. :D
Yeah! Shanghai is the Columbus of China.
I keed, I keed…
hey, watch what you’re comparing my hometown to. i might come and shank you while you sleep. :twisted:
milwaukee’s marcus center might be a more apt comparison. :D
I’ve been to Milwaukee dozens of times, and even stayed across the street from there, and I’ve never seen that building change colors like that.
As for Shanghai, we just need boats on the Scioto with laser light shows on them and a 20 story LCD tv on the side of the Nationwide, and we are there.
I’d love for Columbus to have something like that along our river. I’ve spent some time in Shanghai. The area in your photo is called – “The Bund”. Columbus has that potential, but I would simply point out that the aforementioned area in Shanghai has more than some boats and laser light shows. There is an energy along that river (Huan Pu), it’s walkable and a huge area of growth surrounds it. Also worth noting. It’s all happened in the last 10 – 15 years. In 1992 there wasn’t 1 skyscraper in Shanghai.
:lol: yeeeaaaaahhhhh! :lol: