Public Art Registry
VGH Energy Centre
VGH Energy Centre
12th Avenue at Willow Street
VGH Energy Centre
Plaza south side of 12th Avenue
Private development
2008
Stainless steel, steam, concrete, water
Site-integrated work
In place
Vancouver General Hospital
VGH Energy Centre
Description of work
An interactive and integrally functional work that humanizes and animates the 45 or so intake, vent, steam and exhaust stacks rising out of the giant boiler plant below ground level. A somewhat parabolic stainless steel spiral pipe descends from the 3/4 point of one of the main stacks, down and across the site, ending over a vortex/whirlpool in the pool. The last 20 metres of the spiral rains cooling water into the pool, recycling it from, and back, into the plant itself. A number of the concrete pavers in the plaza are in fact pressure sensitive, that also cause the playful release of some of the excess steam from various vents of the system.
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