Central Corridor light rail station art concepts:
Lexington, Dale and Rice Street stations
Seitu Jones
Seitu Jones
Designs inspired by immigrant cultures, Capitol
Lexington Parkway
Themes: Lexington Ballpark structure, ash and hackberry trees lining the parkway, and African and Asian textile patterns.
Inspirations: Light columns inspired by the structure of Lexington Ballpark that stood near this site, cutout leaf patterns in the structural steel light columns and leaf patterns in the communication cabinets. Railings inspired by African and Asian textile patterns will include a poem on a handrail about “place.”
Materials: Structural steel light columns with cutout patterns, steel railings, pre-cast panels on communication cabinets with leaf design.
Dale Street Station
Themes: Cultures that have immigrated to the area and icons from those cultures.
Inspirations: Light columns inspired by the cultures that have settled in the area, communication cabinets with textured quilt patterns from many cultures and railings inspired by symbols from African, Asian, European and Latino cultures.
Materials: Tiled sculpture on the light columns suggesting a draped quilt, steel railings, a tile border with pre-cast panels on communication cabinets to represent a textured quilt.
The Rice Street Station design is inspired by the architecture of the nearby State Capitol building.
Rice Street Station
Themes: State government and symbols, civic architecture, speed, direction and movement.
Inspiration: Light columns and capitals inspired by Capitol architecture, Cap Wigington architecture, the Minnesota Constitution and abstract state symbols, and railing patterns to indicate speed, direction and movement.
Materials: Steel banner between light columns, steel railings, tile panels on communications cabinets with abstract state designs.