I personally wish that public art projects were more integrated in the project that they're associated with. I like the Glenmore fish, not because they're obvious and literal, but because they don't feel like they were tacked on as a public art component on the outside of the project (they may have been, but if so the artists did a great job integrating them). The blue ring, and (based simply on the photos I've seen), this project definitely do have that tacked on feel to them. Wonderland outside the Bow is great not only because it's a great standalone sculpture, but because the whole site treats the sculpture as a focal point.
Or, you get rid of the requirement of having public art as a component of these various projects, and instead centralize it in a sculpture park that the way that Chicago does (but then you'd get people from various neighbourhoods complaining that money on art isn't being spent in their neighbourhoods).
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