Related Projects

Walks & Plazas
Streets, Walks & Plazas
  • Windows on the Floating World

    • A project using refracted light and other day/night lighting effects for a new mixed-use building

  • LightPlay

    • A project using refracted light and other day/night lighting effects for a new mixed-use building

  • Meeting Place

    • A green community oasis in the Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, NC

  • SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

    • Sculptural solar collectors provide shade and lighting for a bike path

  • Passage

    • A multifaceted project for the new South Mountain Community Library, connecting people through words to the landscape of South Phoenix

  • The Zanjero’s Line

    • A recreational path along 4 miles of the Highline Canal in South Phoenix, AZ

  • The Benefit of Mr. Kite

    • Re-envisioning a walkway in San Diego, CA into a choreographed path of light and color

  • Arbors & Ghost Trees

    • Bus stops and shaded arbors as markers of transformation and memory along a major road in South Phoenix, AZ

  • Topiary – A Twenty Year Project

    • A sculptural gateway to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo that measures time with growing boxwood

  • Mud Life of the Maumee

    • Whimsical drawings of small creatures choreograph movement along paths in a Toledo, OH neighborhood park

  • Asaroton, 1976

    • Bronze garbage embedded in a Boston crosswalk commemorates a produce market.

  • The Big Question

    • Creating an active and thought-provoking gathering space alongside The Science Center of Iowa

  • Wall Cycle to Ocotillo

    • A trail of 20 sculpture sites mitigating between 5 miles of highway and neighborhoods in Phoenix

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

Streets
  • LightPlay

    • A project using refracted light and other day/night lighting effects for a new mixed-use building

  • Meeting Place

    • A green community oasis in the Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, NC

Schools & Libraries
  • Passage

    • A multifaceted project for the new South Mountain Community Library, connecting people through words to the landscape of South Phoenix

  • Portrait Chairs

    • Seats of honor for readers in Norfolk, MA

  • Terullian Mantle

    • A multi-part response to the International Day Parade of New York City’s Public School 89

  • In the Dense Words

    • A book environment for a book distribution company

  • Pillars of Thought

    • Transforming architectural elements into guardians of thought in the Scottsdale Public Library

  • Gateway

    • An oversized table creates a fanciful gateway in a Cambridge middle school

  • The Bay Circuit Trail

    • A community project traversing the “Emerald Necklace” surrounding Boston

  • Connections

    • A seating project connecting with the Stanley Tool Company and Central Connecticut State University

New Projects
Light, Sound & Peformance
  • Man from City Hall

    • Boston City Hall becomes a giant character for First Night celebrations

  • LightPlay

    • A project using refracted light and other day/night lighting effects for a new mixed-use building

  • Terpsichore for Kansas City

    • Turning a 1000 car parking garage into a musical instrument in Kansas City, MO

  • SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

    • Sculptural solar collectors provide shade and lighting for a bike path

  • Passage

    • A multifaceted project for the new South Mountain Community Library, connecting people through words to the landscape of South Phoenix

  • Pillars of Thought

    • Transforming architectural elements into guardians of thought in the Scottsdale Public Library

  • The Bronx River Golden Ball

    • An annual event in the Bronx and Westchester Co., NY, where the ball focuses diverse communities on the river

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

  • Lucid Moment

    • Bringing together light, liquid, movement, and space

  • Playback

    • Reclaiming a derelict tennis court with sound and nylon straps

  • One Legged Table

    • Bringing communities to the table to discuss global warming

  • The Gallo Wars of Civitella

    • Video work by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

California
  • The Benefit of Mr. Kite

    • Re-envisioning a walkway in San Diego, CA into a choreographed path of light and color

  • Border Garden

    • An installation at the La Jolla Museum of Art, CA about the Mexican-US Border, water, land, and immigration

Light Gate

 

Light Gate is located at the top of 14th Street on Highland Avenue in the Plaza in front of the Manhattan Beach City Hall and the new Library.  The piece is made of glass laminated with prismatic lighting film that creates rich and varied light effects with the sun.  Light Gate focuses the view through an opening down 14th Street to the Pacific Ocean.  It is a place of constantly shifting light and view, more than a solid object.  It puts the visitor in the center of this important nexus.  As you move around the sculpture, it shifts unexpectedly from transparency, to prismatic refraction, to mirror reflection.  The glass and steel construction playing with the sunlight harmonize with the crystalline glass architecture of the new Library.

Public Art by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

  • Location: Manhattan Beach, CA
  • Client: The City of Manhattan Beach
  • Size: 14’ diameter
  • Materials: Steel, glass, and prismatic film
  • Budget: $130,000
  • Artists: Mags Harries and Lajos Héder
  • Fabrication: Jim Gallucci
  • Photo credits: David Newsom, Green Public Art Consultancy, Dig MB, Roy Conli, Dana Thompson Photography
  • Public Art

 

Mags Harries & Lajos Héder

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