Designed by Moorhead & Moorhead for the Times Square Alliance, Ice Heart is a 10 foot tall heart constructed of masonry scaled blocks of ice. Kaleidoscopic in nature, the ice blocks pick up the lights, colors and activity of Times Square, feeding off its natural chaos.Ultimately Ice Heart is a celebration of the temporary nature of the Times Square Valentine installation. Left to run its own course, the heart will slowly transform, as it melts, eventually disappearing completely.
The Art Review Committee of the Times Square Alliance selected Ice Heart from four invited submissions (the other finalists were Aranda/Lasch, Situ Studio and su11). The committee included Barry Bergdoll, MoMA; Tom Finkelpearl, Queens Museum of Art; RoseLee Goldberg, Performa; Cora Cahan, The New 42nd Street; Marvin Davis, Davis Reality and Jennifer Lantzas, NYC Parks.
Ice Heart will be installed in Times Square, at 46th and Broadway, on the morning of February 11th.
Moorhead & Moorhead
Moorhead & Moorhead is a New York-based architecture and industrial design studio, formed in 2000 by brothers Granger and Robert Moorhead. The firm's projects range in scale from furniture to exhibit design to architecture. At the core of the work is an interest in materials.
Recent project include furniture designs for furniture manufacturer lerival, exhibits for the Center for Architecture, as well as a range of residential commissions in and around the City.
The brothers' work has been widely published and exhibited, both in the US and abroad. In 2006 they were included in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's triennial survey, Design Life Now; and in 2008 they were named Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York.
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