Towering Public Art Secured with Wedge Locking Washers
A gigantic pink structure looms above the Olskroken traffic junction in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. About the size of a small aircraft hangar or typical convenience store, it stands almost where a building’s third floor would be, atop steel legs—also pink—jutting up from a new railway bridge that crosses over the E6 highway.
The sculpture looks something like a boulder, yet with harder geometric lines casting shadows that turn the metal skin magenta in places. But it’s still all the same uniform hue of pink, which radiates out onto the grey concrete of the bridge and the adjoining asphalt ground, as if the color shines from the overhanging sculpture. bLINK is unlike any previous piece of public art in Sweden. It’s a permanent installation intended to last for decades, so it had to be built to withstand the test of time but also endure the unique conditions of its location. And Nord-Lock® washers were a key part in making that possible.