Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center — Colossal

One of the tiny offices on the third floor, with orange tulips at mid-day. In 2003, a building housing the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) was slated for demolition to make way for updated facilities. The closure was a time for reflection and remembrance as the MMHC had been in operation for over nine decades and had touched thousands of patients and employees alike, and the pending demolition presented a unique problem. How does one memorialize a building impossibly rich with a history of both hope and sadness, and do it in a way that reflects not only the past but also the future? More