Winning competition entry		In the old days, the presence of the inevitable clock as part of the exterior architectural design of the railroad terminal at least was given decorative function as many approaching passengers did not own watches to assure them or alarm them as the case may be.				It is significant the clock is a sign, a representation of a clock - not a real mechanical clock but an electronic depiction of a clock as its "hands" move around its face via the media of LED pixels that sparkle day and night.
for the Staten Island Ferry Terminal sponsored by the Economic Development Corporation, New York City.							It is significant that this clock is a civic and symbolic ornament - this connoted via its great size which promotes civic scale and its essential obsolescence which promotes its symbolic quality.
			Today a clock in such a context is hardly functional because virtually everyone wears a watch: it is therefore symbolic and decorative and civic because of its obsolescence, its signification and its size.				Here the element of architectural scale works well - where the clock, smaller in size but bigger in scale than the high-rise buildings in the background, creates a proper significance for this civic building in its context within the city as a whole.