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Metro Downtown to Astrodome Light Rail System
This phase of METRO Light Rail will serve the Main
Street corridor, from the north end of downtown, through Midtown, Hermann
Park, The Museum District, and the Texas Medical Center to the Reliant
Astrodome. The artists involved on the project participated as part
of the station design teams, working to find artistic design solutions
that reflect the locations of individual stations, and the diversity
of people, activities, history and future of the communities along the
line. (design has been completed)
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Downtown/Midtown Transit Streets Program
| Client: |
Metropolitan Transit Authority
(METRO) |
| Artists: |
Rachel
Hecker, Benito Huerta, Lorenzo Thomas, Richard Turner |
| Lead Architect |
Pierce Goodwin
Alexander & Linville |
| Consultants/Design Firms: |
Clark Condon
Associates, Inc.; Davis Associates, Inc.; Douglas/Gallagher, Ferro-Saylors;
D.Y. Davis Associates, Inc.; Houston Downtown Management District;
Llewelyn-Davies Sahni, Inc.; Rey de la Reza Architects; Slaney Santana
Group; The SWA Group, Vitetta Group |
| Civic Art & Design services: |
Management of artist selection; design
management |
| Project Dates: |
1995-2001 (ongoing) |
The Downtown/Midtown Transit Streets project is rebuilding 20 transit
streets in Downtown and Midtown, widening sidewalks, and adding bus shelters,
information kiosks, enhanced lighting and improved storm drainage. Artists
involved in the project have designed elements including a new bus shelter,
information kiosks, patterned sidewalk inlays, and granite pavers etched
with excerpts from poems by Texas authors, in addition to other functional
enhancements.
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