Client: Ned Kahn
Location: San Francisco,CA
Date: 2020
This public art installation is located at 300 Grant Ave. Harlan Vortex is a 90-foot tall, Kinetic Artwork created by Ned Kahn and powered only by the wind. The rotating vanes will reflect light and color from the surrounding environment and sky, responding to changes in the wind and light. At night, ambient lighting will illuminate the artwork.
“Suggestive of a metallic vortex, the artwork consists of hundreds of wind-vanes suspended on a vertical cable that runs the full height of a new building in San Francisco. The column of vanes reveal how the direction and velocity of the wind varies with height. Wind currents interacting with the edges of the building create air vortices which are made visible by the artwork.” by Ned Kahn
