Construction workers on May 3 engaged in a carefully choreographed dance of machine and muscle to erect a 2,000-lb net sculpture 365 ft over Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway, a 1.5-mile stretch of park created after the city's Big Dig.
Designed by artist Janet Echelman, the giant aerial sculpture, which resembles a jellyfish and stretches out 600 ft, hangs from 10 cables attached in four spots to three nearby high-rise buildings. After months of planning, a crew of about 30 skilled tradespeople working for general contractor Shawmut Design and Construction and rigging designer Marr Cos to hoist the netting in less than nine hours using six mobile telescopic cranes and a 135-ft-tall boom lift.