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| The open competition called for a ceremonial landmark to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Seaside, Florida. The landmark gateway reflects Seaside’s established traditions and bridges the community’s past with the future. The competition program was intentionally left loose. This design was a respond to the legacy and attitudes represented by Seaside and ultimately New Urbanism and the associated formal language. The structure simultaneously serves as a celebration and critique. The development of a functional pedestrian bridge that spans the conventional land approach of Highway 30-A, was developed as a hybrid viewing machine. The dialectical faces simultaneously provide orchestrated views of composed moments highlighting Seaside and its unique architectural identity, and the horizontal band window that surveys alternate development represented as spasmodic sprawl and speed of economy and technology. The two identities represent the detachment of Seaside from the conventional or even real and to heighten the automobile’s threshold and the superficial nature of its orchestration - both physical and social. Located at the western edge of Seaside, the monument serves as gate, frame, filter, lens and bridge.
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