The Metronome was built New York at Union Square in1999.
According to wikipedia the artwork “references the multiple measures of time that simultaneously inform and confound our consciousness of the moment.” 
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I love it – I give it two tabs / In person, and with some sun shinning, the contrasts between the mauve and the gold sends chills down my spine.