I love . I really do. But have you ever seen our city hall? Have you seen the plaza surrounding it? The building is perhaps the ugliest structure in New England. I usually refer to it as “shitty hole.” The plaza… yikes. It’s a huge, empty space paved with brick. At one end is the JFK federal office building, which is ugly enough itself. At the other is the Government Centre T station, which looks like an air raid shelter. And in between, apart from Shitty Hole itself, nothing. OK, there’s something akin to an amphitheatre in there — some steps leading to a pit in the midst of the bricks. Woot.

city hall plazaThere was a competition a few years back that sought suggestions to beautify the plaza. That led to adding some benches with stuff above them along the edge of the plaza, along Cambridge Street. Feh. You don’t fix up a massive null space by putting something at its edge.

Now I know what we need. created an installation for a garden outside London’s . It’s called “Volume,” and it’s like an interactive fountain made of light. It’s beautiful. It’s fascinating. It’s people-oriented. Click the image below for a video and a series of pictures.

I want.

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