In 1992, the Trust purchased property on the corner of 7th Street and Penn Avenue, formerly known as "Doc Johnson's International House of Love Potions and Marital Aids," with the intent to utilize the space as a park and exhibition site for temporary, site specific art projects installed every two or three years.

1999 - PRESENT, PALAZZO NUDO
Alexandr Brodsky

The Public Art Advisory Committee's present selection for the parklet was Alexandr Brodsky's Palazzo Nudo. The sculpture is a house-like structure consisting of scaffolding tube and steel wire mesh, measuring 65 feet long and 55 feet high.

The interior is lit with 12 vertical downlights illuminating a 20 feet high pyramidal mound of facade remnants from demolished Cultural District buildings. The remnants, kept in storage by The Cultural Trust, were mounted on a wooden platform to prevent damage and to allow for reuse.

The facade remnants include fragments of some of the buildings demolished on Liberty and Penn Avenues and of the Pitt Theater, a vaudeville house formerly located on the site of the Agnes R. Katz Plaza.

1997 - 1999, LABYRINTH
James O. Loney, David A. Ludwig

For another site-specific sculpture, The Cultural Trust's Public Art Advisory Committee invited submissions from Pittsburgh area artists, and selected James O. Loney and David A. Ludwig's Labyrinth.

Described by the artists as a highly interactive site work, Labyrinth consisted of 830 running feet of 30-inch-high Hicks Yew hedge.

The maze was reminiscent of both the gardens of 15th century Europe and the subterranean maze of tunnels, passages and conduits that lie under every metropolitan city.

1994 - 1997, SEASON IN SPIRAL
Takamasa Kuniyasu

In 1994, the Trust's Public Art Advisory Committee selected Japanese artist Takamasa Kuniyasu to create the first sculpture. His living environmental sculpture called Seasons in Spiral was a work of living trees, bricks and logs, spiraling out from the center corner of the site.

Designed to remind viewers of the changes that occur with the passing of time and seasons, the sculpture was best appreciated when viewed over a period of months.