Documented artwork / rooftop sculpture
Concordia
Credit as documented: DeWitt Godfrey
Concordia places fifteen large steel cylinders on the roof of Lexington's Downtown Arts Center. DeWitt Godfrey's 2012 work occupies the former Lexington Laundry Company building, an early twentieth-century Art Deco structure. Its cylinders lean against the taller nineteenth-century Neoclassical building beside it, making the relationship between the two buildings part of the composition. Godfrey likens the arrangement to a buttress and connects that image with the arts center's supporting role in its community.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2012
- Materials
- steel
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- Artist reports 14,000 pounds; no overall linear dimensions supplied.
- Dimensions apply to
- Documented object or named component scope only; no relocation/engineering specification. Source disagreements and architectural measurements remain explicitly qualified.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
2012
Downtown Arts Center roof, Lexington, Kentucky
- Site
- Downtown Arts Center roof
- City
- Lexington
- State / region
- KY
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The assembled steel weighs 14,000 pounds. The artist describes extensive consultation with architects, engineers and riggers, together with negotiations among site stakeholders. Those consultations concerned placing a large sculpture in an existing architectural setting; the source does not name the individual participants.
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Sources
- www.dewittgodfrey.com ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17