John DeFazio, AIA Architect

New York street clock design

Tourneau Street Clocks As part of Tourneau stores projects is a group of street clocks that are to be sited at significant urban spaces around the world, the first of which would be at Tourneau 's Time Machine site in New York. These Street Clocks are intended to be urban monuments -- true landmarks -- markers "in space and time", within the urban landscape. These clocks are to be places where people orient themselves and where people would arrange to meet others. The street clocks are thought of "in series", only picking up significance through their repetition by being at significant places in around the world. The Tourneau clock, with is trademark moon face, is set upon a monument as stenion that bearing the name of its location and the city where it stands. YOU ARE HERE NOW, is the sub-text of the design. The use of giant text "erodes away" the weight of the stone pylons that support the oversized clock-- making the object both physically present, and some how an apparition. PowerCADD allowed the text, etched into the stone and stainless steel, to be integral to the design. The textures in these drawings were generated by ColorPruf3 material palettes by Bytesyze Studio.

Plan view of clock design includes design on sidewalk

Design for Milan, Italy

And Paris, of course.

This is a sign design for Tourneau.

And a close-up of the sign.