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Bay View ArtStop Opens
It's a bus stop, art work, and urban island. Grand opening is tonight, but we've already got photos of the new amenity.
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It's a bus stop, art work, and urban island. Grand opening is tonight, but we've already got photos of the new amenity. Back to the full article.
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I take it Rustoleum was not one of the sponsors. I think I’ll just fondly go back to the original design model (http://bayviewcompass.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Urban-Posturing.jpg) and think of what might have been. I suppose it looks better than what was there, but honestly–it feels like a piece of art whose theme is “grand plans that lose steam and funding”.
I too am disappointed by this, especially in terms of functionality. I wish the city/MCTS/someone with spare cash would invest in nice covered, solar powered, heated, LED lit bus shelters. Throw some LED estimated time displays for the routes served using the GPS service now available, and maybe some advertising. Much larger value add and “gateway” than this is. At least for major transfer points and transit entry areas (such as this stop).
Looks like they put a rusted car frame up on its end and let it sit there for a few decades. I can’t believe how terrible this turned out. If they had just used painted or powder coated steel, it would look much better. This thing should be torn down if it looks this bad after two months. I hope the Avalon theater doesn’t have this low level of craftsmanship.
Yikes. I wholly support these kind of works, but this just seems so… unfinished. I agree more functionality would have been nice. Unless there’s more work to be done on it, I think it really misses the mark of being a site that unifies the area that it occupies.
Anyone know why it took so long? It was suppose to open in June.
I agree with the others comments. The rust bleeding over the concrete looks terrible and it just makes the whole thing unappealing and old. Terrible. Tear it down get your money back or fix it.
I join the other comments, but especially like those of Tracy. It seems like “public art” in
Milwaukee county is fascinated with angular structures that have no purpose. Witness the
unappealing structures on the corners of Oakland and North Avenue, and similar structures
at Lisbon-North Avenue. Let’s top the pretense that this is art and strive for more functionality.
I’m waiting to see how long it takes for the collection of rusted and abanded cars/trucks start showing up. Competitive bid process…based on what ..cost? Who selects this stuff?
There is a serious problem with some of the public “art” in Milwaukee. With an art degree, and as a fifty year art practitioner, how I wish I could be the benevolent dictator, and veto well intentioned blight like this. This thing is just plain awful.
Embarrassing… they should have given the money to Collectivo and let them design it. They have some taste at least.
This could have been amazing, but instead, it’s disjointed and poorly executed. This was supposed to be “Monumental,” and the tower was supposed to be taller. Instead, it’s shorter than the streetlights. The electrical boxes were supposed to be more hidden. The south bound riders get no shelter at all. There is a nice space for the Green Line riders with the exception that the Green Line doesn’t actually stop there. And the plaque? Comic sans? Really? The Bay View graphic designers should rise up and re-do it!