Note: Story updated below.
Feel like taking a quick 16-ounce shower after your turn sweating or just watching the action at the Jamail Skatepark? It looks like Matthew Geller’s pipe sculpture at the Sabine Water Pump Station in Buffalo Bayou Park — counterintuitively named Open Channel Flow — is now will soon be open for pumping.
Here’s architect Joe Meppelink of Metalab and family taking a ceremonial first spritz over the weekend:
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Update, 8/26: A commenter notes that the sculpture won’t open to the public for another month: “Joe and family were there for a photo op. The dedication is scheduled for 4-6 PM on September 25th. Hope to see you there.”
- Sunday afternoon shower at OCF [Metalab]
- Pumping the Pipeline, Flashing Lights in the Sky: New Skater Shower on Sabine St. [Swamplot]
Photos: Metalab
6 Comments
The park and area bums are going to love this! A free shower!
Wow its crap-tacular
I think this is really cool!
Me too. My skateboarding days are long past, but I can imagine after an hour or two of skating, a spritz would be very pleasant.
Sorry, but it doesn’t open to the public until September 25th. Joe and family were there for a photo op. The dedication is scheduled for 4-6 PM on September 25th. Hope to see you there.
The people at the skatepark are looking forward to using it. Shame they can’t in August, which is really hot, esp. on that concrete, but better a little later in the summer than never. If you’re the artist, Matthew, well done - I like it.