Or just north of it, at 7 World Trade Center, which opened on May 23. Jeff Koons's stainless-steel sculpture Balloon Flower serves as the centerpiece of the new park on the east side of the building.
Another Balloon Flower is owned by DaimlerChrysler and is located in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (see accompanying photograph). The New York version is a bright metallic red.
I've watched the building go up over the past year (construction has taken a total of four years), and more recently, I've watched the park take shape. It still looks like a life-size architectural model, with identical spindly trees. When I first noticed the sculpture, I did a double-take. It was so generic, and so corporate. And this is the first sculpture to be installed here?
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