{"id":201541,"date":"2022-10-05T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=201541"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:20:25","slug":"atelier-cho-thompsons-installation-flatiron-plaza","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/atelier-cho-thompsons-installation-flatiron-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Atelier Cho Thompson’s Installation in Flatiron Plaza Takes on a Double Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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October 5, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Wilson Barlow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Martin Seck<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Atelier Cho Thompson’s Installation in Flatiron Plaza Takes on a Double Meaning<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

When Atelier Cho Thompson began designing Interwoven<\/em>, the winning submission for last winter\u2019s annual Flatiron Plaza Holiday Design Competition, the studio had just endured 18 difficult pandemic months. So the idea of connection was crucial to co-principals Ming Thompson and Christina Cho Yoo\u2019s concept, which is a celebration of the power of coming together in a public space\u2014specifically one in the shadow of Daniel Burnham\u2019s landmarked triangular Flatiron Building that lends the surrounding district its name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installation’s title has a double meaning. It not only describes the 450-square-foot form\u2014an assemblage of crisscrossing powder-coated steel arcs and panels of colorful polypropylene netting and resin, which assumes distinctly different shapes depending on the viewing angle\u2014but also refers to the fabric of city life. \u201cWe were inspired by America\u2019s woven tapestry of cultures,\u201d Thompson says. Visitors to the structure, which stood from November through January, were rewarded for coming together: When two or more people passed through it simultaneously, a synchrony of LEDs and original music played. \u201cIt\u2019s a magical and unexpected effect,\u201d Cho Yoo adds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was more wizardry inside the little pavilion, which also won an NYCxDesign Award<\/a> in the exhibition\/installation category. A bench of post-industrial recycled cork offered visitors a moment of repose, while a wall of papers on a grid, backlit by more LEDs, allowed them to share written responses to the prompt \u201cI dream of a world where together we can. . .\u201d If your answer would’ve been to see Interwoven, as 2 million passersby did during its Manhattan run, there\u2019s hope: Atelier Cho Thompson<\/a> is relocating it to a New Haven, Connecticut, skate park in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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