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10/01/2026

Our Golden Week journey continues to Tokyo, where cultures and creative influences meet. Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama’s ‘Hanao-San’ reflects his own experience growing up between Japan and the United States, bringing Eastern and Western aesthetics together through monumental sculpture.

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Image Credit: Tomokazu Matsuyama Studio

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We’ll head to Kuala Lumpur, where light and nature come together overhead. At YTL Headquarters, Studio Sawada Design’s ‘Leaves’ captures the quiet beauty of sunlight filtering through trees, transforming an everyday natural phenomenon into an immersive suspended artwork. Inspired by Komorebi, the Japanese word describing sunlight streaming through leaves, the work layers materials that bend, refract and diffuse light.

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Studio Sawada Design. Photography by David Yeow
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In Hong Kong, Australian artist Lindy Lee’s ‘Eye of Infinity’ embodies a sense of ascension, encouraging travellers to look outward while reflecting on our connection to the world around us. Drawing inspiration from Lee’s Chinese ancestry and her engagement with Taoism and Ch’an Buddhism, the monumental bronze sculpture resembles a seed, a portal, and an eye, symbols of growth, transition, and perspective.

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Image Credit: Image Credits: Kris Provoost. Rachel See. UAP | Urban Art Projects. Video by Francisco Guerrero and Shing Fung Cheung.

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We’ll also head to Singapore, where art creates space to pause and reflect. At Yale-NUS College, Singaporean artist Grace Tan’s ‘Mater’ asks viewers to consider what they see, what it means to them and how our perspectives evolve through experience.

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Image Credit: Courtesy of UAP | Urban Art Projects

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Siem Reap, Cambodia is our next destination where a ribbon of gold brings ideas of movement, happiness and renewal into the public realm. Created by PMDL Architecture + Design, ‘Luminous Ribbon’ draws inspiration from ceremonial robes and the Khmer word for “brilliance

10/01/2026

Today marks the start of Golden Week, making it the perfect time to reconnect with culture, and explore new destinations. Here are a few public artworks that you can’t miss on your travels.

In Suzhou, ‘Magical Gusu’ embodies these themes in the public sphere, celebrating the city’s rich artistic heritage through a contemporary lens.

Created by artist Jacky Tsai, the vibrant murals take inspiration from Suzhou’s classical gardens, featuring flowers, plants, koi fish, and soaring birds intricately woven into the historic Sanjian Wall and Watchtower at Yanlord Cangjie. By blending traditional Chinese influences with a modern visual style, the artwork offers a fresh perspective on Suzhou’s cultural identity, linking the city’s past to how people engage with it today.

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Image Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Jerome Huang of UAP | Urban Art Projects

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In Beijing, Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel’s ‘Universal Connection’ brings that idea to life through a vivid landscape inspired by traditional Chinese art.

Mountains, water, birds and squirrels are transformed through Okuda’s distinctive geometric forms and intense colours, expressing ideas of equality, diversity and peaceful coexistence. At the centre of the work, a squirrel holds a golden egg, an auspicious symbol of hard work and ambition, while the wider landscape reflects on finding harmony between people and the natural world.

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Image Credit: Courtesy of VICITU

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We’re also heading to Shenzhen, where tradition and the contemporary city collide. ‘Artificial Paradise’ brings the visual language of traditional Chinese landscape painting into a landscape shaped by rapid urban change.

Artist Yang Yongliang translates classical shanshui, a painting style, into an urban landscape, weaving mountains, trees, and architecture into an expansive contemporary scene. The result brings nature and technology, as well as the past and present, into the same frame, depicting a city that is continually being reshaped.

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Image Credit: courtesy of UAP

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09/29/2026

Marshmallow Leaser Feast (MLF), ‘We Live in an Ocean of Air’, 2026

Marshmallow Laser Feast creates immersive experiences that reveal parts of the natural world we cannot ordinarily see. Bringing together collaborators from across disciplines, their practice explores new ways of seeing and understanding the world, through immersive experience, XR and film.

‘We Live in an Ocean of Air’ transforms the first-floor lobby into an immersive encounter with the hidden ecological systems that sustain life. Presented across an eight-metre-tall LED screen, the 11-minute multimedia work celebrates the oak tree as a living monument, revealing the intricate relationships between species, air, carbon and the vast underground networks that connect them.

Using fluid dynamics, light particle point clouds, sound and scientific research, the work shifts between microscopic and monumental scales to make otherwise invisible processes visible. From nutrient flows and fungal mycelia to intricate networks of carbon, ‘We Live in an Ocean of Air’ invites audiences to look beyond the limits of everyday perception and reconsider their relationship with the living world around them.

As public art curator, our team developed the wider art strategy for the building and worked with Marshmallow Laser Feast's practice to connect its themes of nature, technology and sustainability directly with the architecture. Working across artist, client and design teams, the work was developed for the eight-metre lobby screen as part of a broader collection of site-specific experiences.

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Image Credit: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Dave Burk@SOM

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09/25/2026

Ben Mazey, ‘Bronze Flag Carpet’, 2026

‘Bronze Flag Carpet’ forms part of an ongoing exploration of the flag as a shared cultural symbol. Each panel began as a hand-sculpted wax form, folded and stretched by the artist before being cast in bronze. The gestures of this process remain visible across the surface, captured like slow, painterly movements within the material itself.

Finished with contrasting raw and polished surfaces that shift with the changing light, the work brings together a field of forms that feel both unified and individual. Installed across the façade, ‘Bronze Flag Carpet’ creates a space for gathering and reflection, celebrating the many voices, histories, and connections that continue to shape South Melbourne and beyond.

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Fortis

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09/24/2026

Ben Mazey, ‘Bronze Flag Carpet’, 2026

Ben Mazey creates fluid and playful forms that are unexpectedly human. He bends and repeats forms into flowing, undulating sculptures. Surfaces are left raw and textural, while others are polished, creating a contrast between the earthy and the refined.

Mazey's latest work, 'Bronze Flag Carpet', is commissioned by Fortis for its newest commercial development, 122 Moray, in South Melbourne. The piece draws on South Melbourne’s long-standing history as a hub for community formation and cultural exchange. As the public art manager, our team developed 'The Meeting Place', a curatorial vision exploring how shared environments shape gathering, collaboration, and belonging. The vision invited artworks that reimagine the meeting place as both a symbolic and physical site of exchange. Working across stakeholder engagement, artist coordination, curatorial strategy, project delivery, and integration within the built environment, we guided the program from concept through to implementation, ensuring each artwork responded meaningfully to the site, community, and broader architectural vision.

Comprising twelve cast bronze forms for the southern façade, the work features unique surface patterns sculpted directly into wax by Mazey. Working closely with Meridian and our team, the artist shaped every detail by hand before the works were cast in bronze and patinated. With contrasting finishes, the flags balance material weight with a sense of movement and play, transforming the building façade into a dynamic architectural gesture.

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Image Credit: Ava Clifforth, Courtesy of UAP | Urban Art Projects

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09/20/2026

Raul de Lara, ‘The Secret Life of Objects’, 2026

Commissioned by Hermès Flagship Store on Madison Avenue, this cast bronze vase began as a large white oak log that was then hand-turned by Raul De Lara. Designed to eventually hold wooden leaves in its final setting, the work explores the relationship between natural materials and their transformation into something long-lasting.

The green patina color is inspired by the bronze sculptures and scattered copper architectural elements De Lara saw while venturing around Central Park.

“For this particular window, I was inspired by my favorite tree in Central Park. Every fall, I go visit him for inspiration as it gives off the most beautiful leaves. I collected 6 of them and used their shape to create the large wooden leaves you see at Hermes. I used a variety of wood species to capture Fall’s color range. I was also inspired by the bronze sculptures and the scattered patina on copper architectural elements around the park. This inspiration led me to think on how to bring that patina color onto the surface of my wooden vase.” — Raul De Lara

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Hermès and Raul De Lara

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09/18/2026

Raul De Lara, ‘The Secret Life of Objects’, 2026

Raul De Lara is a Mexican-born sculptor based in Queens, New York who uses objects as carriers of memory, folklore and identity. Working predominantly in wood, his sculptures draw on the cultural landscapes of Mexico and the United States, often transforming familiar forms into reflections on belonging and the passage of time.

For his latest commission for Hermès Flagship Store on Madison Avenue, ‘The Secret Life of Objects’ was created in collaboration with our Rock Tavern team. The vase was hand turned by De Lara, then cast in bronze through lost wax, followed by a detailed finishing process with patinated and waxed finish where De Lara worked directly with our patina team to craft a custom colour together.

In wood, colour helps reveal the natural grain; in metal, texture becomes the storyteller. The surface accentuated the varying levels of texture across the form, allowing the grain to emerge through subtle shifts in depth. The whole process was carried out in close collaboration with De Lara, ensuring the final surface remained true to his original material language.

“For this particular window, I was inspired by my favorite tree in Central Park. Every fall, I go visit him for inspiration as it gives off the most beautiful leaves. I collected 6 of them and used their shape to create the large wooden leaves you see at Hermes. I used a variety of wood species to capture Fall’s color range. I was also inspired by the bronze sculptures and the scattered patina on copper architectural elements around the park. This inspiration led me to think on how to bring that patina color onto the surface of my wooden vase.“—Raul De Lara

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Image Credit: Chris Roque, courtesy of UAP | Urban Art Projects

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09/17/2026

Florentijn Hofman, ‘Hoho’, 2026

A vibrant group of orange monkeys stretch, climb, and contort across their environments, their exaggerated limbs capturing the agility and adaptability required to navigate an increasingly fast-paced world. Inspired by the endangered golden snub-nosed monkey, the work brings the animal kingdom into conversation with business systems.

Reaching almost 20 metres long, the sculptures draw from the world of commerce through their materiality. The sculptures began as carefully assembled forms made from repurposed cardboard boxes, materials once used to transport products across vast distances. Those original cardboard sculptures were then translated into metal, preserving their texture and character while transforming symbols of global exchange into a playful yet poignant sculptural group. The work encourages audiences to reflect on the connections between the goods we move, the environments we impact, and the species navigating a rapidly changing world.

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Image Credit: Alibaba Qincheng commercial

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09/17/2026

Florentijn Hofman, ‘Hoho’, 2026

Three giant monkeys with completely different personalities made their way to Wuhan and Nanjing.

Hofman’s instantly recognisable sculptures are often dramatically enlarged, inviting audiences to encounter ordinary objects in new ways while exploring the possibilities of material, scale, and form. Rooted in public space, his work draws on local contexts and cultures to create shared experiences that transcend language and difference.

In our latest collaboration with Hofman, the familiar monkey takes on new forms across three distinct installations, each developed in response to its location. Working from the artist’s hand-moulded clay model, our team in China translated the animals proportions, gestures, and expressive details into a series of sculptures for Wuhan and Nanjing. While ‘Lying Monkey’ and ‘Upside-down Monkey’ celebrate expressive sculptural form, ‘Monkey Head’ introduced a new layer of interaction. It was the first collaboration between our team and the artist to incorporate integrated mechanical motion.

Developed in collaboration with Alibaba, the project explores a new model of 'Art + Enterprise' co-creation through the development of the ‘hoho’ art IP. Throughout the process, we maintained close communication between the artist, client, and design teams, balancing the integrity of Hofman’s artistic expression with the practical needs of each site. Even the smallest details, from the scale of the eyes and the shape of the mouth to the movement of the legs, were carefully considered. Each final pose created a distinct monkey shaped by its surroundings.

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Image Credit: Alibaba Qincheng commercial

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09/15/2026

Masako Miki, ‘Fox Delivering Messages’, 2026

Inspired by Yokai and Obake, shape-shifting beings from Japanese folklore, Masako Miki's ‘Fox Delivering Messages’ explores transformation through a playful, contemporary lens.

Balancing mythology with whimsy, this 3ft tall sculpture reimagines the fox as both guardian and trickster, inviting moments of curiosity, connection, and delight at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado.

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Image Credit: Courtesy of the artist, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Photo: Lance Brewer.

Installation view of Masako Miki, Fox Delivering Messages, 2026, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO. Photo:

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