Surrounded by the Civic Center and the Brooklyn Bridge, this art project is intimately woven into the fabric of downtown Manhattan. My goal is to unify the three-acre plaza by using materials and proportions already at the site and by drawing attention to its major visual axis. I also want to clarify the sense of place in each area of the plaza and make the pedestrian traffic passages more human in scale, while preserving the monumental character of the plaza. — Jaudon, 1987