SFO Wind Portal (Photo: Derek Gurney)

I would love to thank Paul Woolford and Ned Kahn for the hundreds of thousands of sequin-like discs that welcome everyone to San Francisco. The 12-feet deep, 2-feet thick kinetic sculpture called the “Wind Portal” stops my heart everytime I find myself lucky enough to experience it. Located at San Francisco Airport and SFO BART Station, the discs lap over one another 24 hours a day with help from the station’s train- and plane-induced wind.

This is only one of many life-size installations by Mr. Kahn. His art “incorporate[s] flowing water, fog, sand and light to create complex and continually changing systems.”

View a video from Ned Kahn’s website here.

Photo by Derek Gurney.
Via Construction Online.

Passage for Peace

Reach out and touch someone with gestural interconnectivity! San Francisco’s Knoend and Pocobor make this happen through a wireless sculpture called ‘Passage for Peace’ – yet another outstanding exhibit at Milan’s Salone Satellite 2009.

Placed in two cities, the glass and metal columns allow people to “physically see, hear, and feel someone else across the world,” says Ivy Chuang of Knoend.

Each column is set to play a specific octave and when harmonious chords play, light moves through all 12 columns – in both cities!

View the concept drawings and details at www.passageforpeace.org.