Pike Loop

New York, United States

5

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www.storefrontnews.org
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Pike St, New York, NY, 10002
Lower East Side, Two Bridges
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
840 ftEast Broadway (F)
0.4 miGrand Street (B,D)
0.5 miDelancey Street-Essex Street (F,J,M,Z)
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1 review of Pike Loop

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Place rating: 5
Queens, NY
Pike Loop by Gramazio & Kohler –aka The Chinatown brick installation
I have avoided Chinatown for a while until this year so when I walked by this brick work in the middle of Pike St. I was not sure what to make of it.
I kept passing it and sometime I change my route just to see it again. I have examined it closely, touched it and try figure out the story behind it.
The structure is obviously a public art work but who, what and why?
I know many of you have passed by and seen this structure and may have asked the same questions. .
I have looked but I could not find a plague to read. Well thank goodness for the internet.
Pike Loop was constructed over a two-​month period with help from a robotic arm named R-​O-​B. In all, over seven thousand bricks were used, forming a self-​intersecting design which resembles an infinite loop.
The bricks are laid by a robotics arm (R-​O-​B). Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich and, in conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program, Storefront commission this first architecture project to be digitally fabricated on site.
They have extended the exhibit to the end of 2010 so if you have not seen it take a look. It will be gone by the end of the year.
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