An artist’s rendering of the New York City Waterfalls project, proposed by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple. The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Eliasson. They will cost $15 million, to be funded by private donations to New York’s Public Art Fund.
!!This is gonna be sooo cooooool……!!
UPDATE: It will start this JULY 2008 for a total of 3 months.
Here’s the official press conference with the Mayor and Artist
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This is the official website.
This is really cool, why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Definitely want to come check it out, wish it was going to be on longer.
i saw this this morning on CNN.com and it looks beautiful. trying to see the 3 other locations.