Some of the Hub's public spaces will be getting a new look — with everything from a portable reading room to traffic light control boxes turned into benches — thanks to an innovative design contest.
"We were blown away by the talent and the creativity and the sheer number of ideas," said Kris Carter of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.
The winning designs in the city's first Public Space Invitational were unveiled last night. Nine winners and five honorable mentions were selected from more than 70 proposals.
"This competition is a celebration of the city's immense talent, and the creative community's interest in improving our city," Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in a statement.
The winners range from the practical to what the city called "Random Awesome Designs," including:
• Making benches out of traffic light control boxes by flipping them on their sides.
• Partially submerging musical pipes into the Fort Point Channel to make different sounds depending on the tide.
• Creating a permanent video link to another city by projecting live views between the two cities.
The contest also solicited proposals for redesigning parts of City Hall, including a 55-foot photograph of the sky on the lobby ceiling, as well as rainbow-colored "stairs of fabulousness."
The winners, whose designs had to cost less than $4,500, will now work with the city to finalize their proposals.
"We'll sit down with the winning teams and hash out the project a little more," Carter said. "You'll start seeing some of these out on the street as soon as the summer."
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