Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Situ Studio has unveiled the fifth edition of Times Square’s annual Heartwalk installation – a heart-shaped “room within the city” made of salvaged Sandy debris. Inspired by the “collective experience of Hurricane Sandy and the love that binds people together during trying times,” Heartwalk begins as two weathered ribbons of wooden planks that gradually lift to form an illuminated heart enclosure in the middle of Duffy Square.
People are already falling in love, as you can see Instagram’s #heartwalktsq is filling up with images of elated New Yorkers standing within the “heart of New York City”.
More images after the break…
Heartwalk will remain on view until March 8th.
Previous winners of the Times Square Valentine Heart Design include: BIG (2012); Freecell (2011); Moorhead & Moorhead (2010); and Gage / Clemenceau Architects (2009).
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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- Courtesy of Situ Studio
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- Courtesy of Situ Studio
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- Courtesy of Situ Studio
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- Courtesy of Situ Studio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- © Keith Sirchio
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- Left to right: Tim Tompkins, President, Times Square Alliance Aleksey Lukyanov, Situ Studio Sherry Dobbin, Director of Public Art, Times Square Arts Westley Rozen, Situ Studio Susan Chin, FAIA, Executive Director, Design Trust for Public Space Basar Girit, Situ Studio Bradley Samuels, Situ Studio Rachel Knutson, Integrated Communications Planner, General Mills (Cheerios is the official sponsor of Heartwalk) © Ka-Man Tse, Times Square Alliance
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