Yes, that was a bouquet of giant metal flowers you saw riding around in a strange limo, and then hoisted onto the roof of 305 West 16th Street yesterday—fitting since, after all, this is New York City where our giant monster hands will kill anything weak, like real flowers. Anyway, photographer Tommy M caught the process on film (click through for more), and Curbed reports that the sculpture is called "Perhaps." But the best tidbit of all is that the owner of the building, Harlan Berger, saw Rob Buchholz's work at 2006's Burning Man Festival!
Our tipster tells us the process was being filmed by Bravo and HG TV, so this isn't the last you've seen of these things. But why didn't the New Museum rose get this kind of treatment!