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DIRECTORY
Ed Carpenter

Orlando Tower
1992
60' x 10'
Light, Stainless Steel, Glass
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Orlando City Hall Plaza,
Orlando, Florida
Orlando City Hall Plaza
Tower is an illuminated 60' high stainless steel and laminated glass monument
at the heart of downtown Orlando, Florida. Placed at the point where the centerline
of the city's main business boulevard, Orange Avenue, intersects a diagonal
axis from the front door of the new City Hall, the tower celebrates physically
and metaphorically the intersection of private and public interests in Orlando,
and is a symbol for the aspirations of the community.
The tower was commissioned
after a series of public meetings in which the need for a monument was conceived.
Ed Carpenter designed the tower and oversaw its fabrication and erection, working
with a variety of consultants, material suppliers, and fabricators from the
U.S. and Japan, as well as on-site contractors. The tower is illuminated at
three different levels by computerized lights programmed to accentuate it's
botanical metaphor.
Engineers: K.P.F.F., Portland,
OR | Steel Fabrication and Installation: Fabrication Specialties, Ltd., Seattle,
WA | Glass Fabrication: Tempglass, Inc., Perrysburg, OH
Lighting Design: Craig Marquardt, Boring, OR | Design
Consultation: Heller and Leake Architects, San Francisco, CA | Photographers:
Ed Carpenter, George Cott

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