5 Beacons for the Lost Half-Mile, 2012
Artworks: Light Art
Artworks: Light Art
Materials
perforated stainless steel & LED light systemDates
- Installed, 2012
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Description
A series of perforated stainless steel volumes lit from inside and outside guide pedestrians through a vast outdoor room formed by the multi-lane highway deck above. This Northern section of the Charles River basin only became open to the public in 2012. Known as the Lost Half-Mile... passages was impossible through an industrial landscape of rail yards, polluted drainage ditches, and wharf warehouses - the result of commercial activity that began in the early 1830's.
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Location
near Boston Sand and Gravel
Rutherford Ave. & Education St.
Charlestown, MA 02129
United States
Rutherford Ave. & Education St.
Charlestown, MA 02129
United States
Under Zakim Bridge, North Side of Charles River
Nearby Items
| Leonard Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge | 717 feet | |||
| Littoral Way | 0.3 miles | |||
| Davit Lights | 0.3 miles | |||
| City Square | 0.3 miles | |||
| Charlestown Bridge | 0.4 miles | |||
| Charles River Park | 0.4 miles | |||
| Telltale LIghts | 0.4 miles |