Ed Carpenter wins two gateway sculpture design competitions, one for Love Field in Dallas, Texas, and one for the City of Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Love Field Gateway Sculpture

“LoveBird” alights at the head of Love Field’s runway, guardian of the airport, spreading its wings in a display of pride and optimism. Its sleek contours compliment the Modernism of the terminal, simultaneously suggesting a fantastical bird or advanced aircraft, poised for flight. To some it may evoke the “wing display” of the Mockingbird, namesake of the adjacent roadway. “LoveBird” brings a poetic and heroic presence to the site, alighting delicately on a fine point, slightly canted, stabilized by slender cables arrayed in a fan form suggesting tail feathers.

Dimensions: 90’ wide x 20’ high x 25’ wide.

Materials: 304 stainless steel, laminated safety glass wing tips, stainless steel cables and hardware, reinforced concrete base.

Lake Oswego Gateway

The site is a pocket park on a major highway at the northern edge of Lake Oswego, Oregon, with an opportunity to create a gateway icon for the City. Lake Oswego is known for its verdant trees and flowers, and its citizens see their city as beautiful, friendly, peaceful, clean, and green. Accordingly, a botanical theme has been developed for the sculpture, abstractly conveying some of those qualities. Tall for maximum presence, and brightly illuminated at night, the sculpture will rise proudly against a backdrop of mature native trees and shrubs, creating a sylvan corsage at the City’s entry.

Dimensions: 26’ tall x 12’ 4” wide.

Materials: Stainless steel, polished and painted, laminated glass, perforated stainless steel, up-lighting.