A centrepiece built for the winter square
Cities commission the Heart of the City as the emotional centre of a winter square, not as one figure among many. The form is a heart lifted on rainbow wings beneath a lit halo, which gives a clear silhouette from across the plaza and a softer, romantic read up close. The piece is meant to be the spot where couples stop, so its scale and brightness are tuned to hold a crowd rather than to sit quietly at the edge of a trail.
Designing the wings and halo
The difficulty is balance. A heart alone is a flat symbol, so the rainbow wings give it volume and the halo gives it a frame of light that reads from a distance. The wings are the largest surface on the piece, so their span decides both the visual weight and the wind load, and they are shaped to look intentional from the front while staying narrow enough to place against a building line. The halo is lit as its own zone so it can glow steady while the wings cycle through colour.
Scale and the view from the path
Because the figure is symmetrical, it reads from every approach, but the best photograph is head-on, where the wings frame the heart and the halo sits clean above. We build the piece to your viewing distance: a square that sees it across a wide plaza needs more height and a brighter halo than a square where visitors walk straight up to it. The acrylic hand-painting keeps the rainbow crisp by day and lets the LED glow read through it at night.
Engineering the heart to your square
As a bespoke XL-CU build, the heart is engineered to your site wind zone, with load calculations and fire certificates supplied per shipment. The base is a ground anchor sized to the footprint and fixed to hardstanding, and the foundation detail is issued before production. The piece is built in segments for standard road freight and assembled on site, with the wings and halo as the largest assembled parts.
