June, 2007, Ed Carpenter wins Ft. Lauderdale airport sculpture competition. 80' high by 200' long aluminum and glass sculpture at entrance to airport will be installed in 2008.





From the proposal: "Rising into view on approach to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport, a gleaming structure presents itself on the horizon. Its eighty-foot spines gesture toward the runways. Like an enormous wing or fin or fan, Finfan presents an iconic form, suggesting images aquatic, botanical, mechanical, aerodynamic. Its towering scale insures prominence against massive infrastructure; its transparency gives delicacy in a ponderous landscape. From the air and roadways, Finfan is guardian and gateway. At night it glows mysteriously, hues slowly changing, illumination sliding across its outstretched ribs."


August, 2007, TECOTOSH.
TECOTOSH, at the Portland State University Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science has been chosen as one of the award recipients for the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network 2007 Year in Review. View TECOTOSH

TECOTOSH was selected from 240 entries and is one of 40 projects chosen for this year's 2007 Year in Review. The 40 winning projects are being compiled into a CD which will be available for sale online in September.




Raleigh-Durham International Airport, North Carolina, November 2006:
Raleigh-Durham International Airport has selected a design by Ed Carpenter Studio for the Central Opening site in its new terminal expansion. Scheduled to be completed in 2009, the sculpture involves a tension structure of laminated wooden masts, stainless steel cables, dichroic glass, and integral lighting.



Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2006:
Ed Carpenter Studio has won a competition for a major commission in the ticketing concourse of the new Terminal Three of Las Vegas Mc Carran International Airport. The diaphanous suspended sculptural installation will be completed in 2010.



Redmond City Hall, Redmond, Washington, February 2006:
Entry sculpture, "Silver Thaw" 170' x 45' x 20'. Aluminum, dichroic glass, stainless steel cable and hardware.

Portland State University, Maseeh College of Engineering, Portland, Oregon, March 2006:
"TECOTOSH" Plaza Sculpture, 130' x 40' x 40'. Aluminum, stainless steel, glass, special lights.

Phoenix International Airport Consolidated Rental Car Center, Sky Harbor Car Rental Center, Phoenix Arizona, January 2006:
"CrossStitch" Art wall: 800' x 25', Skylight areas: various sizes. Dichroic glass, aluminum channel, stainless steel cables and hardware.

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October 13, 2005
International sculpture competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland won by Ed Carpenter.
Monumental gateway sculpture will rise over Broadway Roundabout in 2008.

View bbc.co.uk article on work

Excerpt from the competition text: "Trillian rises over Broadway Roundabout, marking the southern entrance to Belfast, offering a symbol of transformation. Its gesture is bold and delicate, engineered and organic, familiar and extraordinary. The delicacy of nature and the strength of human resolve are suggested in graceful lines and robust steel. Trillian reaches upward toward the light. Perched and leaning, it suggests life in the balance. This sense of precariousness is only symbolic, however, as myriad armored cables insure great structural integrity and redundancy. At night Trillian forms a luminous beacon in the sky, visible for miles. Rainy skies are penetrated by beams of light extending up into the mists, further heightening the presence of the sculpture."

DIMENSIONS: 45 M high x 42 M wide
MATERIALS: Steel truss structure clad with cellular polycarbonate sheet.

Flare Architectural Lighting Magazine 07/05:
The cover of the April 2005 issue of Flare Architectural Lighting Magazine, Milan, Italy, is devoted to of a detail of Ed Carpenter's Wells Fargo, Denver installation. Inside is a lavish article featuring six recent projects, page 47-51.

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Dream Leaves 03/05:
A garden of the mind...a landscape of botanical memories, wildly out of scale, mingling imagery of leaves, hearts, veins in a vast organic world...strange, comforting, protecting.

John A. Burns school of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Commissioned by State of Hawai'i, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Title: "Dream Leaves."
Installed: March 2005.
Dimensions: 72' deep x 143' long x 31' high.
Materials: Stainless steel, laminated dichroic glass, concrete, flagstone.

Project Manager and Construction Drawings: Oanh Tran.
Project Administrator: Arleen Daugherty.
Structural Engineering: Grant Davis, KPFF.
Lighting Design: C.E. Marquardt.
Art Commission Project Manager: Jonathan Johnson.
Steel Fabrication: Albina Pipe.
Photos: Ed Carpenter

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Architectural Record 6/04:
In the May 2004 issue of Architectural Record, there is a 4 page Lighting Profile article on Ed Carpenter.

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