Tidewater Plaza Sculpture
Charleston, SC · 2025
A coordinated production package developed around the project’s design, schedule, and delivery requirements.
- Client type: Municipal redevelopment authority
- Market: Healthcare, Education & Civic
- Location: Charleston, SC
- Scope: Freestanding bronze and weathering-steel sculpture for a civic waterfront plaza
- Quantity: Single site-specific commission
- Services provided: Artist collaboration, technical development, mockups, fabrication, quality assurance, packaging, delivery, installation coordination
- Delivery condition: Segmented for transport, crated, on-site assembly support
- Completion year: 2025
The redevelopment authority had an appointed artist and an approved concept for a new waterfront plaza but needed the artistic vision translated into a fabricable, weather-durable structure suited to a public coastal setting.
- Large-scale freestanding sculpture in bronze and weathering steel
- Internal structural framework engineered for wind and coastal exposure
- Segmented fabrication planned for crane placement on site
- Foundation and anchoring coordinated with the civic engineering team
- Full-scale finish samples reviewed to confirm patina and weathering appearance
Carve Creation collaborated directly with the appointed artist to resolve internal structure, segmentation, and anchoring while preserving the sculpture’s form and surface character, developing full-scale mockups and finish samples before fabrication began.
- Digital modeling and fabrication documentation from the artist’s design
- Internal structural framework and foundation interface
- Bronze and weathering-steel fabrication
- Full-scale finish and patina samples
- Segmented transport and crane-assisted on-site assembly
The completed sculpture anchors the redeveloped waterfront plaza and has become a recognizable civic landmark for the surrounding community.
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