The art is in keeping with the RDA’s requirement that 1% of the project’s cost be devoted to public art since the land was acquired by Penn in 1999 from the RDA.Īt the May 23 dedication for “Wave Forms,” Susan Davis, the director of the Redevelopment Authority’s fine arts program, called this significant major public art “amazing,” a “brilliant entrance to the building’ and a “gateway to campus.”Īnne Papageorge, vice president for Facilities and Real Estate Services, said, “Dennis’s “Wave Forms” manages to cultivate a place of urban refuge, with room to sit and people-watch,” during the dedication for what she described as a “lively and engaging piece of public art.” under the guidelines of Philadelphia’s Redevelopment Authority Public Art Program, which requires that developers include original, site-specific works of public art. The $1.4 million project was commissioned by The Hanover Company, the Houston-based developer of the Domus complex, and its strategic partner MetLife Inc. His work has been exhibited at major museums around the world, including the Tate in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The largest of the bells is 34 feet high, but in a City which has had a 45-foot Clothespin by Claes Oldenburg near City Hall since 1976, and his Split Button outside the University of Penn’s Library since 1981.Īrtist Dennis Oppenheim, a native of Washington State, was selected for this project after a national search. The bell sculptures are tactile, offering both residents and visitors the opportunity to walk in, around and through the exhibit. Philadelphia’s latest public art project, “Wave Forms,” designed by New York artist Dennis Oppenheim incorporates the 20,000-square-foot plaza and courtyard of the Domus residential complex, at 34th and Chestnut, adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania campus, featuring lighting, hardscape and landscape in patterns of sound waves, as well as six aluminum and mesh bells, weighing a total of eight and a half tons, that will be eventually enveloped in foliage. Looking east from 34th and Chestnut through Waveforms to Center City. Looking west from 34th and Chestnut through Waveforms toward Domus. The apartments feature 10-foot ceilings, oversized windows and a variety of floor plans with one or two bedrooms. Domus, Latin for “home,” is eight stories of luxury lifestyle, with 290 apartments averaging 1,104 square feet with panoramic views of University City and Center City, above 23,000 square feet of ground floor retail which will include stores such as Eastern Mountain Sports and Starbucks, and a Wachovia bank, among others.ĭomus has an outdoor pool with a sundeck, a private screening rooming and a fitness club in the clubhouse, conference rooms, parking in a dedicated, five-story parking garage with controlled access to 320 spaces, and other amenities for residents. Less than two years after the ceremonial groundbreaking took place on the construction site for the $71 million luxury mixed-use development project, ( Almanac October 18, 2005) Domus, has brought new life to the 34th & Chestnut intersection. The Domus Residential Complex, 3411 Chestnut Street
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