Jochen Gerz provides the work, the People's Bench which forms a backdrop to the square. This comprises of a simple curving bench with a high concrete back, 'tiled' with plastic plaques.
These feature names and dates commemorating a "friendship, marriage, a spiritual, hidden or open relationship".
The building that this mosaic SP3379 : Mosaic detail in Cov Centre. decorates was originally the Locarno ballroom, hence the jolly design. The artist was Fred Millet.