At the Botanic Garden station, community representatives, the station architectural team, and artist Millie Burns created a sensitive visual transition from street to mini-park surrounding the entrance and finally into the transit facility itself. This is achieved by fences and railing designs. The tall and wavy metal constructions echo both the trees and stately apartment buildings lining Eastern Parkway and harmonize with the modern lines of the station house. Most importantly, they lead the way into the station and provide aesthetic uplift for transit users. "The communities that border Eastern Parkway and the Botanic Garden are blessed with a rich natural bounty," Burns says. "We are surrounded by trees, shrubs, plants, and vines. The fences and railing designs are drawn from what I see in this neighborhood. ‘IL7/Square’ is about growth, a reaching toward the sun."

Millie Burns is an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of the Hewitt Gallery of Art at Marymount Manhattan College. She holds an M.F.A. in Integrated Media Arts and degrees in Digital Design and Interactive Media, she engages in scholarship, research, and creative and professional activities at the intersection of art, history, and technology. Committed to underserved communities, she designs curricula that are grounded in her belief that learning should reinforce self-identity and incorporate the reinforcing elements of interdisciplinary content, inquiry learning, partnership, sustained and reflective engagement, and analysis of primary documents.