a blog by susan diana harris interior design » SF http://blog.susandianaharris.com san francisco interior design blog by susan diana harris interior design Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Wind Portal at SFO Bart Station http://blog.susandianaharris.com/wind-portal-at-sfo-bart-station/ http://blog.susandianaharris.com/wind-portal-at-sfo-bart-station/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:59:56 +0000 NTERIORdesigner http://blog.susandianaharris.com/?p=38 SFO Wind Portal (Photo: Derek Gurney)

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.

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