Facing east on Spring Garden Street toward the Delaware River waterfront, people in Northern Liberties will spot a new 60-foot-tall sculpture that lights up at dusk and glows into the night.

The installation, called River Soundings, was completed last week after more than two years of planning to activate a public space at the 470-unit Rivermark apartment complex. The development sits at the site of the former Festival Pier music venue on Christopher Columbus Blvd., where a small park and walking trail now offer views of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to the south.

River Soundings was designed by Seattle-based public art studio Haddad | Drugan , which won a commission as part of the city's Percent for Art program. When developers build big projects on land acquired from the Philadelph

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