This series of photos was created by Mark Granlund for the newly renovated Chambers at the Heywood Office building. Granlund is a Metro Transit employee who was intrigued by the variety of vehicles once he started working for Metro Transit. This series captures close-up details of the different vehicles while also capturing the Metro Transit color patterns. Some employees can tell which images are of which kind of vehicles.
Mark Granlund is an artist and the Public Art Administrator for Metro Transit. As the Public Art Administrator, he oversees the maintenance and development of Metro Transit’s public art collection. He is also a landscape and still life painter.
Artist website: markgranlundstudio.com
Each artist who created public art for the METRO Green Line worked extensively with platform designers and the community. Each artist was given architectural drawings of the platforms with their dimensions and pertinent information as to placement and integration of public art.
This is a basic architectural drawing indicating measurements and materials for areas where the artwork will attach to the station structure. This was one of the specification documents provided to the artist to inform their design of the art.
This is a drawing created by the artist to indicate the materials and methods for attaching the art to the station structure.
The following two images are of two proposed design concepts and how they would be integrated into the architectural structure of the station.
From here, even more detailed drawings were created to make the mosaic glass tiles, called smalti, that were then applied to these surfaces. There were many variations and design steps to achieve the final product at each station. In this case, there was also the installation of thousands of small tiles – that took a while!