ArchDaily Community: A dose of help on NY Architecture
John Hill from Archidose is writing his new book: “A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture”, including a comprehensive list of buildings in NY completed between 2000-2010, and those planned for completion after 2010.
And in order to have a complete list, he has asked for the help of ArchDaily’s readers to find “diamonds in the rough” in NY, and I´m pretty sure you can do it:
Projects in the book will fall into two broad categories:
1. Those completed between 2000-2010
2. Those planned for completion after 2010
I’m interested in both, but primarily the first, as they will make up the bulk of the book. Those in the second category, which I will include in an “On the Horizon” appendix, should be actual projects that have a good chance of realization, not hypothetical or speculative ones never to go beyond renderings. Given that my research to date has yielded a lot more buildings than can fit in the book, it is not necessary to send me obvious choices, like 40 Bond by Herzog & de Meuron, IAC HQ by Frank Gehry, the Cooper Union Academic Building by Morphosis, or any other NYC building on the Archi-Tourist, for that matter. I’m looking for “under the radar” buildings, quality architecture that has not clogged the airways of the architectural media. That said, here is my criteria for what is included in the book.
- John Hill
So leave your suggestions on the comments to see if you can spot those unique buildings!
Related articles:
16 comments »
uhh.. so “new museum of contemporary art” in NY already built? Just now I’m looking at “Elcroquis 121/122, SANAA Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa 1998-2004″ at this project, and it looks like 3D visualization. Well, so they realy constructed it :-).
is built and is beautiful but not perfect! One of my favourite spot in nyc along with Hightline!
Hopefully he has the Brooklyn Modern book, there are a couple of really nice architectural projects there.
http://www.rizzoliusa.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780847830435
The New Museum looks great from the outside, but the inside was poorly thought out. Little attention to the skin or the staggered blocks are seen within the building, and the circulation is a joke. I accidentally opened the emergency exit door for the stairs, and when I appologized to the security, he informed me that it happens all the time because people expect that to be the path one would take in walking down in that building.
Well being from Portland, I would have to suggest Allied Works’s remodel for the Museum of Art and Design. That was something I was really impressed with when I saw it in person.
David Adjaye’s 208 Vanderbilt project @ fort greene
there are interiors all over the place sanna,oma,fuksas asymptote has a few
perry street project by asymptote
steven holl @ pratt
bronx museum architectonica … spelling?
yamamoto store …
sabastian marscals new restuarant interior pio pio
the Austrian culture center by Raimund Abraham
new battery park unstudio thing
there are dead competition stuff too… like OSKA won a tower in chelsea that was pretty nice.
temporary too installations like by rex and all the ps1 stuff
oh isn’t shop going to do the fit school?
and they did the bridge over at ground zero right?
ando’s morimoto interior
future systems has an interior as well , in soho i think.
and the tkts is pretty good too… even the army recruitment center is well done
Atlantic Yards…oh, wait. dammit…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brooklyn-Modern-Diana-Lind/dp/0847830438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257517367&sr=8-1
Late.
Most of those projects are brownstone conversions.
here’s a suggestion: how about if john hill do his own damn work for a book that he’ll profit from?
what’s next, is he going to want to copy my homework?
wow, I kinda wanted to read about things i never heard of.
good luck john these guys were no fun. and for the record, the MAD remodel is the worst museum in the city, i went on a free day and still wanted my money back.
Projects NOT for consideration:
:: Storefronts (restaurants, shops, galleries, etc.)
too bad you are missing out on much of the good work in our fair city these days.
does that include Storefront for Art & Architecture? because you are more likely to get in there than Holl’s reno for Higgin’s Hall at Pratt (unless you are a current student)
it would be nice if there was some acknowledgement or response to those who submit things to him… I haven’t heard anything back
Thanks to everybody for submitting some suggestions. While I’m familiar with all the projects above, I still appreciate it. Christopher’s latest comment quotes my blog post that initially put out this Request for Buildings. I just noticed that this link is not provided in the post above. My post describes how I’m trying to learn about buildings that I have not discovered via magazines, architects’ web pages, blogs, and other means of research. This RFB is another means of research, one that opens up the two-way nature of blogs (mine, Arch Daily, etc.) to hopefully increase what information is shared. In future posts on my blog I will give sneak peeks of the book’s progress.
To clarify my intentions, this guidebook focused on the first decade of the 21st century aims to present buildings that if not publicly accessible have a strong presence in the public realm. The idea is to be able to use the book to experience the city, to see the contemporary alongside the historical, to see everything in context. Buildings like Holl’s Higgins Hall, if off limits beyond the reception desk (except when the gallery has things on display) are fitting, because they affect how we experience the city, in this case not only with the glass facade but the folded paving as well.
My decision to not include restaurants, shops and other storefronts (no, this would not exclude Storefront for Art and Architecture, but its completion before 2000 does) stems from the fact in NYC most of these do not last long. For example, just about all of LTL’s restaurants (Ina Ani, Tides, Lozoo) have closed and their spaces transformed once again by other designers. Including these sorts of projects would make the guide obsolete much quicker than I’d like.
John Hill