Duffy Square
New York, NY
Start:
Feb 4, 2025
End:
Mar 4, 2025
February 4 – March 4, 2025 | 24/7
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Duffy Square
New York, NY
Start:
Feb 4, 2025
End:
Mar 4, 2025
February 4 – March 4, 2025 | 24/7
View Public Programming
Times Square Arts is pleased to present Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio's Love Ever After as the winner of the 17th annual Love & Design Competition, on display from February 4 – March 4, 2025 with the support of curatorial partner The World Around and collaborator Billion Oyster Project.
Love Ever After is designed to create beauty through simplicity, where reuse, regrowth, and love for the environment and community are an integral part of its story. The project assembles metal mesh used for oyster reef cages to create a three-dimensional grid revealing geometries of a heart. The three-dimensional heart flickers and shifts color and shape as the angle of its perception changes, creating a tactile and human-scale experience in contrast to the high-tech screens for which Times Square is famous.
Accompanying the installation will be an additional oyster cage filled with shells, symbolizing the future of Love Ever After: after February, the pieces of the heart will become oyster reef cages placed around New York City's shoreline, monitored by hundreds of volunteers as part of Billion Oyster Project's mission to restore one billion oysters back to New York Harbor by 2035.
For seventeen years, Times Square Arts has hosted the Love & Design competition to celebrate the work of innovative, emerging architecture and design firms, and speak to themes of love during the month of February in Times Square. The finalists for this year’s competition included: Atelier Masomi, Jerome Haferd, Space Caviar, and Studio Galeon.
The 2025 Love & Design Competition marks a significant milestone as the first-ever commission for The World Around, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the best ideas in architecture and design accessible to all with a focus on social and ecological justice. The World Around sought installations that not only examined the lifecycle of materials used in architecture but also required each component to be recyclable, reusable, and to serve as a space for gathering and celebration. This approach emphasizes how creative design can foster principles that transcend immediate experiences and contribute to a more equitable and sustainable future.
2025 LOVE & DESIGN COMPETITION JURORS:
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Founder and Creative Director, PAU
Carson Chan, Director of Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment, MoMA
Wendy Feuer, Former Assistant Commissioner Urban Design + Art + Wayfinding, NYC DOT
Kendal Henry, Assistant Commissioner, Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Director, NYC DOT Art
Jing Liu, Founding Partner, SO – IL
Elizabeth Masella, Senior Public Art Coordinator, NYC Parks
Times Square Arts is pleased to present Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio's Love Ever After as the winner of the 17th annual Love & Design Competition, on display from February 4 – March 4, 2025 with the support of curatorial partner The World Around and collaborator Billion Oyster Project.
Love Ever After is designed to create beauty through simplicity, where reuse, regrowth, and love for the environment and community are an integral part of its story. The project assembles metal mesh used for oyster reef cages to create a three-dimensional grid revealing geometries of a heart. The three-dimensional heart flickers and shifts color and shape as the angle of its perception changes, creating a tactile and human-scale experience in contrast to the high-tech screens for which Times Square is famous.
Accompanying the installation will be an additional oyster cage filled with shells, symbolizing the future of Love Ever After: after February, the pieces of the heart will become oyster reef cages placed around New York City's shoreline, monitored by hundreds of volunteers as part of Billion Oyster Project's mission to restore one billion oysters back to New York Harbor by 2035.
For seventeen years, Times Square Arts has hosted the Love & Design competition to celebrate the work of innovative, emerging architecture and design firms, and speak to themes of love during the month of February in Times Square. The finalists for this year’s competition included: Atelier Masomi, Jerome Haferd, Space Caviar, and Studio Galeon.
The 2025 Love & Design Competition marks a significant milestone as the first-ever commission for The World Around, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the best ideas in architecture and design accessible to all with a focus on social and ecological justice. The World Around sought installations that not only examined the lifecycle of materials used in architecture but also required each component to be recyclable, reusable, and to serve as a space for gathering and celebration. This approach emphasizes how creative design can foster principles that transcend immediate experiences and contribute to a more equitable and sustainable future.
2025 LOVE & DESIGN COMPETITION JURORS:
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Founder and Creative Director, PAU
Carson Chan, Director of Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment, MoMA
Wendy Feuer, Former Assistant Commissioner Urban Design + Art + Wayfinding, NYC DOT
Kendal Henry, Assistant Commissioner, Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Director, NYC DOT Art
Jing Liu, Founding Partner, SO – IL
Elizabeth Masella, Senior Public Art Coordinator, NYC Parks
February 4, 12pm
Join us at 12pm on Duffy Square at Broadway & 46th St for the unveiling of Love Ever After with opening remarks by principal designer Pernilla Ohrstedt and our collaborators.
Jerome Haferd: Come Together — Come Together is an interactive installation that offers a space for healing and unity. Woven together in the shape of a broken heart, and crafted from printed, 100% recyclable aluminum sheeting that reflects histories, every day portraits, and words of joy and reconciliation, the structure invites guests to reflect on the many fractures that define our time: political unrest, socio-cultural divides, economic disparities, and the looming threat of climate change.
Space Caviar: The Forest of Love — This work reinterprets Times Square’s most distinctive medium—the video wall—using a new generation of flexible, transparent LED screens applied to glass to create an immersive and responsive forest of love and light. Inspired by the immersive simplicity of Lina Bo Bardi’s seminal installation, the work senses and reacts to people’s presence. Each wall of light grows a plant until human presence is detected all around, causing the plants to explode into a cascade of animated hearts symbolizing love and togetherness.
Studio Galeon: LOCK IT — LOCK IT is an interactive, heart-shaped installation that invites the public to deposit locks of love onto the walls of the sculpture. The installation will be weighed at the end of the month to determine how heavy love is in New York.
2025年2月4日至3月4日 | 百老汇与第46街交汇处的达菲广场
由时代广场艺术中心和The World Around与Billion Oyster Project(十亿牡蛎项目)联合推出。
永恒的爱(Love Ever After)是时代广场艺术中心为庆祝一年中最浪漫的一天而举办的年度“爱与设计”竞赛2025年获奖作品。这个艺术装置以一颗跳动的彩色心脏为中心,由40多个牡蛎笼搭建而成,展示了设计和建筑如何支持建设气候复原力。这些笼子在时代广场展出后,将作为十亿牡蛎项目的一部分被重新利用,该计划的目标是到2035年将纽约港的牡蛎恢复到十亿只。您眼前看到的笼子将成为牡蛎研究笼,浸没在纽约市周围的水域中,因为十亿牡蛎项目正在那里建造牡蛎礁——可以过滤水、保护海岸线免受风暴影响和促进海洋生物多样性的重要栖息地。用于建造新珊瑚礁的牡蛎壳是从80多家参与的餐馆收集来的。
该项目体现了真正可持续设计的创造力和潜力,是策展合作伙伴、非营利组织The World Around所做工作的范例之一,该组织邀请建筑师考虑如何在不浪费任何材料的情况下建造临时建筑。定制的涂料不含有害化学物质,所有照明均使用节能装置。总之,这些元素展示了环保材料和工艺如何将公共空间转变为关爱人类和地球的象征。
4 février - 4 mars 2025 | Duffy Square, Broadway et 46e
Présenté par Times Square Arts et The World Around avec Billion Oyster Project.
Love Ever After (L'Amour éternel) est le lauréat 2025 du concours annuel Love & Design de Times Square Arts, sélectionné pour célébrer le jour le plus romantique de l'année. Cette œuvre, dont le centre est un cœur coloré qui bat, est composée de plus de 40 cages à huîtres et illustre la manière dont la création et l'architecture peuvent contribuer à la résilience climatique. Après son déploiement sur Times Square, chacune de ces cages sera réutilisée dans le cadre de la mission du Billion Oyster Project, visant à restaurer un milliard d'huîtres dans le port de New York d'ici à 2035. Les cages que vous contemplez deviendront des sites de recherche sur les huîtres immergées dans les eaux de la ville de New York, où le Billion Oyster Project (le projet d'un milliard d'huîtres) ambitionne de créer des récifs d'huîtres, soit des habitats vitaux qui filtrent l'eau, protègent le littoral des tempêtes et favorisent la biodiversité marine. Les coquilles utilisées comme éléments constitutifs des nouveaux récifs sont collectées auprès de plus de 80 restaurants participants.
Le projet reflète la créativité et le potentiel d'une structure véritablement durable, illustrant le travail de l'organisation The World Around, partenaire sans but lucratif, qui a invité les architectes à réfléchir aux moyens de construire une œuvre temporaire sans gaspiller de matériaux. La peinture personnalisée est exempte de produits chimiques nocifs et tout l'éclairage est assuré par des dispositifs à faible consommation d'énergie. Ces éléments montrent collectivement comment des matériaux et des processus respectueux de l'environnement peuvent transformer l'espace public en un symbole d'amour, tant pour les personnes que pour la planète.
4 de febrero – 4 de marzo de 2025 | Duffy Square, Broadway y 46th
Presentado por Times Square Arts junto con The World Around y el Billion Oyster Project.
Love Ever After es el ganador de la edición 2025 del concurso anual que organiza Times Square Arts, Love & Design, elegido para celebrar el día más romántico del año. Construida con más de 40 jaulas para el cultivo ostras y con un corazón de colores latiendo en el centro, esta instalación artística es una muestra de cómo el diseño y la arquitectura pueden apoyar la resiliencia climática. Tras su exhibición en Times Square, cada una de estas jaulas será reutilizada como parte de la misión del Billion Oyster Project, que busca repoblar el puerto de Nueva York con mil millones de ostras para 2035. Las jaulas de la instalación se convertirán en Jaulas para la Investigación de Ostras, que se sumergirán en las aguas que rodean la Ciudad de Nueva York. Allí, el Billion Oyster Project está construyendo arrecifes de ostras: hábitats necesarios para filtrar el agua, proteger las costas de las tormentas y promover la biodiversidad marina. Las conchas que se usan para construir estos nuevos arrecifes provienen de más de 80 restaurantes que participan en el proyecto.
Este refleja la creatividad y el potencial del diseño verdaderamente sostenible, un ejemplo del trabajo que hace el socio curatorial The World Around, una organización sin fines de lucro que invita a los arquitectos a pensar en formas de construir estructuras provisorias sin desperdiciar materiales. La pintura, especialmente hecha para esta instalación, no contiene químicos nocivos; y toda la iluminación está hecha con equipamiento de bajo consumo. Juntos, estos elementos son una prueba de cómo los materiales y procesos respetuosos del medioambiente pueden transformar el espacio público en un símbolo de amor, tanto al prójimo como al planeta.
The World Around is a nonprofit dedicated to making the most innovative ideas in architecture and design accessible to all. Through their critically acclaimed public programs and events, they present ground-breaking contemporary architecture and design, focusing on interdisciplinary, forward-thinking solutions and climate justice. With a strong commitment to addressing the most pressing issue of our time—climate change—The World Around proudly hosts the Young Climate Prize, an award and mentorship program that supports talented designers under 25.
Billion Oyster Project is a nonprofit organization on a mission to restore oyster reefs to the New York Harbor through public education initiatives. They envision a future in which the New York Harbor is a world-class public blue space — well used and well cared for by New Yorkers with an effort to engage 1 million people to restore 1 billion oysters by 2035.
Support for Love Ever After is provided in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support is provided by The Consulate General of Sweden in New York. In-kind support is provided by Lucifer Lighting.
Duffy Square
New York, NY
February 4 – March 4, 2025 | 24/7
Photos by Michael Hull
Pernilla Ohrstedt is a Swedish architect and designer, and the founder of Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio based in New York City. She has an international reputation for realizing innovative projects that span the disciplines of architecture, design, art, and fashion. Key to her practice is creating striking projects with minimal means — through reuse and unexpected material choices and by bringing together visionary teams of forward-thinking clients, community initiatives and exceptional designers and fabricators. Her projects range from buildings, art installations, museum exhibitions, interiors, set design and furniture.
Additional Love Ever After team:
COLOUR / SALEM VAN DER SWAAGH
Salem van der Swaagh is a material and color expert, currently based in New York, NY. A graduate of both RISD and Design Academy Eindhoven, she has worked for the past decade as an expert textile designer and color specialist for a wide variety of European clients and design studios, including the JongeriusLab, Vitra, Kvadrat, Maharam and Knoll Textiles. Her focus has been on woven developments as well as coloring for an expansive range of interior materials. Previously based in Berlin, Germany, she has worked in the field of ecological textile design and coloring for both product and interior, including establishing her own brand of sustainably woven interior products in 2015. She now heads her own design studio providing material development and color expertise for both the American and European market.
LIGHTING / SOFIE NILSSON
Sofie Bjärnram, lighting designer. She is based in Bjäre and works as a lighting design consultant in private and public architecture projects with leading architects in Sweden. She is also a senior lighting design consultant for Isometrix Light + Design, which she has worked for since 2005 after her education at Central Saint Martins University of Art London and KTH in Stockholm. This includes architecture projects such as private residences, private art collections, hotels, restaurants and art museums in all parts of the world with the world’s leading architects, designers and artists.
ENGINEERING / WALTER WOODINGTON
Walter Woodington has over 8 years of specialty and façade engineering experience ranging across market sectors (civic, sports, entertainment, commercial, art, residential), typologies (curtain wall, gridshells, spaceframe, tensile, high rise, sculpture), and materials (steel, stainless, light-gauge, pneumatics, cable, masonry, glass, timber). His work focuses on high profile new structural enclosures for national and international projects. These projects focused on geometrically complex, lightweight, and long span enclosures. Projects within the tristate area covered much more breadth, such as masonry facades, unitized curtain wall, ETFE, and kinetic systems. These design projects often required creativity and deep investigation. This experience has been applied to other projects, such as glass forensics and testing of novel materials.
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Pernilla Ohrstedt
Pernilla Ohrstedt is a Swedish architect and designer, and the founder of Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio based in New York City. She has an international reputation for realizing innovative projects that span the disciplines of architecture, design, art, and fashion. Key to her practice is creating striking projects with minimal means — through reuse and unexpected material choices and by bringing together visionary teams of forward-thinking clients, community initiatives and exceptional designers and fabricators. Her projects range from buildings, art installations, museum exhibitions, interiors, set design and furniture.
Additional Love Ever After team:
COLOUR / SALEM VAN DER SWAAGH
Salem van der Swaagh is a material and color expert, currently based in New York, NY. A graduate of both RISD and Design Academy Eindhoven, she has worked for the past decade as an expert textile designer and color specialist for a wide variety of European clients and design studios, including the JongeriusLab, Vitra, Kvadrat, Maharam and Knoll Textiles. Her focus has been on woven developments as well as coloring for an expansive range of interior materials. Previously based in Berlin, Germany, she has worked in the field of ecological textile design and coloring for both product and interior, including establishing her own brand of sustainably woven interior products in 2015. She now heads her own design studio providing material development and color expertise for both the American and European market.
LIGHTING / SOFIE NILSSON
Sofie Bjärnram, lighting designer. She is based in Bjäre and works as a lighting design consultant in private and public architecture projects with leading architects in Sweden. She is also a senior lighting design consultant for Isometrix Light + Design, which she has worked for since 2005 after her education at Central Saint Martins University of Art London and KTH in Stockholm. This includes architecture projects such as private residences, private art collections, hotels, restaurants and art museums in all parts of the world with the world’s leading architects, designers and artists.
ENGINEERING / WALTER WOODINGTON
Walter Woodington has over 8 years of specialty and façade engineering experience ranging across market sectors (civic, sports, entertainment, commercial, art, residential), typologies (curtain wall, gridshells, spaceframe, tensile, high rise, sculpture), and materials (steel, stainless, light-gauge, pneumatics, cable, masonry, glass, timber). His work focuses on high profile new structural enclosures for national and international projects. These projects focused on geometrically complex, lightweight, and long span enclosures. Projects within the tristate area covered much more breadth, such as masonry facades, unitized curtain wall, ETFE, and kinetic systems. These design projects often required creativity and deep investigation. This experience has been applied to other projects, such as glass forensics and testing of novel materials.
Learn More About
Pernilla Ohrstedt
Pernilla Ohrstedt is a Swedish architect and designer, and the founder of Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio based in New York City. She has an international reputation for realizing innovative projects that span the disciplines of architecture, design, art, and fashion. Key to her practice is creating striking projects with minimal means — through reuse and unexpected material choices and by bringing together visionary teams of forward-thinking clients, community initiatives and exceptional designers and fabricators. Her projects range from buildings, art installations, museum exhibitions, interiors, set design and furniture.
Additional Love Ever After team:
COLOUR / SALEM VAN DER SWAAGH
Salem van der Swaagh is a material and color expert, currently based in New York, NY. A graduate of both RISD and Design Academy Eindhoven, she has worked for the past decade as an expert textile designer and color specialist for a wide variety of European clients and design studios, including the JongeriusLab, Vitra, Kvadrat, Maharam and Knoll Textiles. Her focus has been on woven developments as well as coloring for an expansive range of interior materials. Previously based in Berlin, Germany, she has worked in the field of ecological textile design and coloring for both product and interior, including establishing her own brand of sustainably woven interior products in 2015. She now heads her own design studio providing material development and color expertise for both the American and European market.
LIGHTING / SOFIE NILSSON
Sofie Bjärnram, lighting designer. She is based in Bjäre and works as a lighting design consultant in private and public architecture projects with leading architects in Sweden. She is also a senior lighting design consultant for Isometrix Light + Design, which she has worked for since 2005 after her education at Central Saint Martins University of Art London and KTH in Stockholm. This includes architecture projects such as private residences, private art collections, hotels, restaurants and art museums in all parts of the world with the world’s leading architects, designers and artists.
ENGINEERING / WALTER WOODINGTON
Walter Woodington has over 8 years of specialty and façade engineering experience ranging across market sectors (civic, sports, entertainment, commercial, art, residential), typologies (curtain wall, gridshells, spaceframe, tensile, high rise, sculpture), and materials (steel, stainless, light-gauge, pneumatics, cable, masonry, glass, timber). His work focuses on high profile new structural enclosures for national and international projects. These projects focused on geometrically complex, lightweight, and long span enclosures. Projects within the tristate area covered much more breadth, such as masonry facades, unitized curtain wall, ETFE, and kinetic systems. These design projects often required creativity and deep investigation. This experience has been applied to other projects, such as glass forensics and testing of novel materials.
Learn More About
Pernilla Ohrstedt