Winning Proposal, “Arts Union Beacon” RFP

ABA was selected as the winner of Somerville, Massachusetts’ Arts Union Beacon competition. The project calls for a new civic-minded sculpture for the Union Square Firehouse, a historic building that now anchors much of the city’s arts programming. ABA’s proposal reimagines the light that once shone from the firehouse’s original cupola, translating it into a contemporary set of curved forms illuminated from within by full-spectrum LEDs. The piece reconnects the building to its past while giving the neighborhood a new, visible marker of its cultural activity.