Wrap it up
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- November
- 28
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is wrapping gifts.
I love taking time, picking special papers and ribbons. Once I even made color copies of some of my vintage Christmas postcards and used them to decorate some gift bags.
All my efforts, though, pale in comparison to the work of Sarah Fitzmaurice.
It seems that Fitzmaurice and her co-workers at McLaren Engineering Group in West Nyack were tapped to wrap Bank of America’s temporary 3,500-square-foot pavilion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
The glass box, designed as a “gift” to the city and remaining up through this weekend, features restrooms, ATMs, free gift wrapping, hot chocolate and other services to shoppers.
Topping the building, at the corner of 36th Street, is a 12-foot-bow with ends that actually blow in the wind:
It works thanks to a hidden system of cables and supports… another of the McLaren projects that have also inicluded work with The Rolling Stones, Jeep, Cirque du Soleil and more.
Check it out if you’re in the city.
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on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 at 4:08 pm by Mary Shustack.
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