Comments on: ArchDaily Community: A dose of help on NY Architecture

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:31:42 +0000

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

By: gc

gc — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:51:14 +0000

it would be nice if there was some acknowledgement or response to those who submit things to him… I haven’t heard anything back

By: christopher

christopher — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:37:40 +0000

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)

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:45 +0000

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.

By: Nicholas Patten

Nicholas Patten — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:17:01 +0000

A Dose of Help on NY Architecture. http://bit.ly/C50cP

By: Architecture Mob

Architecture Mob — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:34:20 +0000

RT @NicholasPatten: A Dose of Help on NY Architecture. http://bit.ly/C50cP

By: mike

mike — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:29:07 +0000

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?

By: FX Studio design

FX Studio design — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:49 +0000

Reading: http://twitthis.com/k4m2q5

By: ygogolak

ygogolak — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:15:23 +0000

Most of those projects are brownstone conversions.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:23:04 +0000

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.

By: christopher

christopher — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:56:12 +0000

Atlantic Yards…oh, wait. dammit…

By: jim

jim — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:52:20 +0000

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

By: doug

doug — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:26:26 +0000

ando’s morimoto interior

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:25:43 +0000

oh isn’t shop going to do the fit school?
and they did the bridge over at ground zero right?

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:24:51 +0000

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

By: dennis

dennis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:08:16 +0000

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.

By: ...

... — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:51:07 +0000

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

By: josep

josep — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:49:57 +0000

is built and is beautiful but not perfect! One of my favourite spot in nyc along with Hightline!

By: Architecture Topic

Architecture Topic — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:47:24 +0000

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By: arnold

arnold — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:38:13 +0000

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 :-).