BIG BENCH
Big Bench, Oakwood Square, Boynton Beach, Florida, 2023
Team: Office Kovacs
Project Description:
Big Bench is a 36-foot-long, multicolored public bench at Oakwood Square, a 1980s strip mall in Boynton Beach. Cast in concrete, its tiers angle into the site’s open space, creating a bleacher facing a plaza between the bench and the storefronts.
Each face is painted a different color. A street-facing supergraphic, speed-bump graphics, and yellow ceramic pavement markers recast familiar elements of the parking lot at the scale of a horizontal monument. When occupied, the bench becomes a collective place to sit, meet, and linger.
Additional images courtesy of Office Kovacs.