The bright red Flamingo sculpture by Alexander Calder anchors Federal Plaza. It stands fifty-three feet tall, cutting a sharp silhouette against the straight lines and dark steel of the surrounding Ludwig Mies van der Rohe buildings. When the sculpture arrived in nineteen seventy-four, workers balanced it on jacks to position the massive steel plates before welding them into place. The city expected a controversy over its stark abstraction, and the public protests followed, but the sculpture remains a fixture of the plaza.
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