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ReUnion, 1996
Kim Yasuda, Torgen Johnson,
Noel Korten, Matthew Vanderborgh, artist team

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This artist team designed a series of six bus passenger waiting areas which reference the social and natural history of the site and incorporate ideas about shelter, movement, evolution and change. The elegant constructions of glass and metal balance delicately between metaphors of the natural and built environments. Overhead, articulated metal ribs meld with the glass to create an overall floating leaf form. Together the structures form a cloud-like pattern of movement and shelter along the length of the transit plaza.

"We were interested in allusions of flight, marine technology, nomadic architecture, organic forms and the revival of the now-concrete Los Angeles River."

KIM YASUDA, TORGEN JOHNSON, NOEL KORTEN, and MATTHEW VANDERBORGH joined together as a team for this project. Yasuda and Johnson were born and raised in California and have worked collaboratively on numerous public art projects including the Metro Rail Vermont Station, the Betteravia Government Center in Santa Maria, and the Ernesto Galarza Memorial in San Jose. Korten is a curator for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Vanderborgh is a practicing architect and has worked on numerous public commissions including Boston's Central Artery Project.