Green Gate Summer, designed by artist Raina Accardi

This week the Alliance for Downtown New York unveiled the second round of its public art initiative, Re:Construction. Building on the success of the program launched last fall, the new installations use color, style, and “green” materials to recast construction sites as public-art venues.

The two new pieces repurpose modular construction structures and materials. “Green Gate, Summer” wraps a sidewalk shed in a vinyl banner depicting trees and sky that extends as actual foliage from the structure itself. Artist Raina Accardi designed the piece, located at the base of the AIG building at 175 Water Street.

“Houston Fence,” located at the intersection of Broadway and Houston Street, applies color and various safety materials to transform the look of sixty chain-link fences along 480 feet of Houston Street. The fence is the work of Carolina Cisneros, Carlos Gomez de Llarena, and Mateo Pinto, who together created Fulton Fence for the first phase of the Re:Construction project. It is being maintained by Department of Design and Construction crews at work on the Houston Street Reconstruction project

Re:Construction is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s Community Enhancement Fund. With this grant, over the next three years the Alliance plans to create artistic

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