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24) The Blooms
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Designed as a playground in Bighorn Park in partnership with the Town of Vail design team.
28) Vail Lifestyle
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Located in Vail Village at the Gore Creek Promenade Pedestrian Bridge. The piece is a total 6 bridge railing panels depicting Vail lifestyle - skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, biking, kayaking, & dog walking.
31) Sunbird Park
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Designed as a playground and neighborhood park in partnership with the Town of Vail design team and tres birds workshop - an architecture and general contracting firm based in Denver.
From tres birds's website:
Connecting architecture to place as well as nurturing the connection between humans and the natural environment, tres birds workshop drew inspiration from surrounding bird habitats to form the main concept of the park- three large nest...
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"Man and His Symbols" is located in the Lionshead Transportation Center of Vail.
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Located in Lionshead Village at the Transportation Center.
The image is a photographic rendering the Gore Range as seen through a scrim of aspen trees. It represents an approximation of the view that is blocked by the buildings, in essence erasing or creating a virtual window through the building where it is installed. Description from the artist's website.
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A series of granite benches and monolith sculptures arranged as plaza in Ford Park.
The three free-standing sculptures are titled “Strata,” “The Fang” and “Gore Creek.” “Strata” is the tallest sculptural element, standing at nine feet tall, and represents the valley’s geological rock formations in its roughly hewn, horizontally patterned texture. “The Fang,” an East Vail winter ice climbing attraction and a popular summer...
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In the early 1980s Vail wanted to commission a significant work of public art from a renowned artist to serve as a landmark for the community. Then mayor, Rod Slifer obtained a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the town commenced a dialogue with artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The artists conceived an installation for an oversized fishing pole approximately 50 to 60 feet high to be placed in the Gore Creek...
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Located in Vail Village at Silfer Square. This mural of ceramic tiles tells the history of Gore Valley and was designed by area children - the official artists are listed as "The Children of Gore Valley."