NYC Projects 18 Created 20-Sep-16 By Marcos Gómez, León, Spain New Museum SANAA museum Storefront for Art and ure New York Times Building Chrysler Building Apple Store Fifth Avenue MoMa Museum of Modern Art Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Madison Square Garden 40 Bond Empire State Building 12 Flatiron Building 13 Prada flagship store 14 OMA - Rem Koolhaas retail, shop 6 AT&T Corporate Headquarters 15 Philip Johnson office 7 Lipstick Building 16 Philip Johnson office 8 Louis Vuitton store 17 Jun Aoki shop 9 Charles Luckman sport, theatre 5 Frank Lloyd Wright museum 11 Daniel Burnham commercial space, office Yoshio Taniguchi museum 4 Bohlin Cywinski Jackson retail, shop Seagram Building Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates office William Van Alen office 3 Renzo Piano office Ludwig Mies van der Rohe office Steven Holl gallery 2 The Beekman 18 Gehry Partners hospital, housing, primary school 10 Herzog and De Meuron housing http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 7 World Trade Center 19 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office 1
photo: Dean Kaufman photo: Dean Kaufman New Museum Bowery 235 New York New York NY 10002 http://wwwnewmuseumorg/ The new home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art is a seven-story, eight-level structure located on the Bowery at a pivotal geographic and cultural intersection in New York s urban fabric A composition of stacked boxes rising 174 feet above the street and shifted off axis in different directions from the building core, conveys the dynamism of the institution, creates skylights that bring natural light into interiors, and is punctuated by windows that offer city vistas The building is clad in a silvery aluminum mesh that captures the effects of changing daylight in a vivid metaphor for the constantly changing dynamics of contemporary art and the openness and permeability of the New Museum itself The building is the first art museum building constructed from the ground up in downtown Manhattan photo: Dean Kaufman 10-2007 Main designer, SANAA Gensler Arup New Museum Naomi Wednesday 12-6 PM Thursday and Friday 12-10 PM Saturday and Sunday 12-6 PM Monday and Tuesday closed The Museum is closed to the public on Monday and Tuesday CIT Free Thursday Evenings (from 7 PM to 10 PM) The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery (at Prince Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one and a half blocks south of Houston) Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 2
photo: Paul Warchol photo: Paul Warchol Storefront for Art and ure Kenmare Street 97 New York New York 10012 http://wwwstorefrontnewsorg Storefront for Art and ure is a non-profit organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design Steven Holl and artist Vito Acconci were commissioned as a collaborative team to renovate the Storefront's aging façade The gallery itself is a limited, narrow wedge with a triangulated exhibition interior, such that the most dominant structure for the Storefront is the building's long façade Seeking to introduce improbability and to puncture the façade, Acconci and Holl challenged this symbolic border which underlines the exclusivity of the art world, where only those on the inside belong Using a hybrid material comprised of concrete mixed with recycled fibers, Holl and Acconci inserted a series of hinged panels arranged in a puzzle-like configuration When the panels are locked in their open position, the façade dissolves and the interior space of the gallery expands out on to the sidewalk (text from website Steven Holl s) photo: Paul Warchol 1993 Main designer, Artist Associate architect Steven Holl Vito Acconci Chris Otterbine Storefront for Art and ure + Shirin Neshat + Kyong Park booce Tuesday - Saturday 11:00-1800 / Closed Sunday and Monday The gallery is located at 97 Kenmare Street, between Mulberry and Lafayette Street Subway: 6 to Spring; N/R to Prince; B/D/F/V to Broadway Lafayette http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 3
photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez New York Times Building 8th Avenue and West 41st Street 620 New York New York http://wwwnewyorktimesbuildingcom/ Renzo Piano Building Workshop & FXFOWLE collaboratively designed a new headquarters for The New York Times The building, located on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal, unites the company's employees under one roof in an exceptional signature structure The design incorporates a transparent glass tower screened by planes of glazed terracotta tubes that seem to float above the street An advanced sunshading system, floor to ceiling glass, increased ceiling heights, efficient lighting and mechanical systems, displaced ventilation, extensive mock-up testing, and a variety of additional sustainable features will ensure that the New York Times Building will bring a new standard of comfort and efficiency in high-rise office space The building is 52 Stories (1,142 feet) tall, including antenna photo: Alberto M Sánchez 11-2007 Main designer, Renzo Piano FXFOWLE s New York Times Company and Forest City Ratner Companies asanchez http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 4
photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Alberto M Sánchez Chrysler Building Lexington Avenue E 42nd Street 405 New York New York The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, has various fine architectural details and especially the building's gargoyles were modelled after Chrysler automobile products like the hood ornaments of the Plymouth; they exemplify the machine age in the 1920s Standing at 319m it was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931 However, the Chrysler Building remains the world's tallest brick building The New York Times Building, which opened in 2007, is exactly level in height Composed of 7 radiating terraced arches, Van Alen's design of the crown is a cruciform groin vault constructed into 7 concentric members with transitioning set-backs, mounted up one behind each other The Chrysler Building's distinctive profile has inspired similar skyscrapers worldwide photo: Alberto M Sánchez 1930 William Van Alen asanchez The building is used as office space, you can only visit the lobby For great views from across the street, visit the German National Tourist Office at 122 E 42nd -- it's on the 20th floor, and the eagles are a lot easier to see, from their window See http://wwwgermany-tourismde/eng/about_us/offices_agencie s_new_yorkhtm Subway: 4/5/6, 7 to Grand Central http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 5
photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Apple Store Fifth Avenue 5th Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets 767 New York New York NY 10153 http://wwwapplecom/retail/fifthavenue/ Apple's second Manhattan retail store is located at 767 Fifth Avenue, the prominent site near FAO Schwarz and Bergdorf Goodman provides views of Central Park The store occupies the underground retail concourse of the General Motors Building, with entry from the plaza level above With this design, New York has a new public space Designers Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and structural engineers Eckersly O'Callahan (glass elements) in collaboration with Apple used Apple Stores' signature structural glass vertical circulation to entice plaza level passersby down to the store's underground main level The 32-foot structural glass cube marking the store's entrance makes a bold architectural statement Housing a transparent glass elevator wrapped by a circular glass stair, the transparent cube beckons potential customers down to the retail level below By day it is a skylight bringing natural light underground, while at night the lighted cube is a sign photo: Alberto M Sánchez 5-2007 Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Apple Computer, Inc asanchez 24/365 In the city that never sleeps, there s a store that never stops tel: (212) 336-1440 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 6
photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez MoMa Museum of Modern Art West 53 Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues 11 New York New York 10019-5497 http://wwwmomaorg/ Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world Japanese architect Taniguchi won a competition in 1997 to redesign the MoMa, beating out ten other internationally renowned architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron The MoMA commission was his first work outside Japan Taniguchi's beautiful and bold design reflects the unique vitality of midtown Manhattan and sensitively draws upon and transforms the language of modernism Highlights include larger, more flexible, sky-lit galleries for contemporary art; architecturally distinctive galleries for masterpieces of modern art; and prominent and more comprehensive areas for study, research, and educational endeavors 11-2004 Yoshio Taniguchi MoMa Museu of Modern Art asanchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Saturday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Sunday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Monday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Tuesday closed Wednesday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Thursday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Friday 10:30 am 8:00 pm Closed Thanksgiving Day Closed Christmas Day tel: (212) 708-9400 Subway: E or V to Fifth Avenue/53 Street; B, D, or F to 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller Center Bus: M1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 53 Street http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 7
photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga Solomon R Guggenheim Museum 5th Avenue 1071 New York New York 10128 http://wwwguggenheimorg/new-york The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum is located in a key site in front of Central Park, an oasis of tranquility in the big city Wright took his inspiration from nature and organic forms But the main innovation in his design was the new concept of 'circulation' Visitors have to rise to the top of the building via an elevator, and then walk downward through the galleries on a continuous helical spiral ramp The building was finished six month after Wright's death, it being his last major work It is a masterpiece of Modern ure still now, even though it was finished in 1959 photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga 10-1959 Frank Lloyd Wright Solomon Guggenheim MVar Saturday - Wednesday: 1000-1745 / Friday: 1000-1945 / Closed Thursdays, Christmas, and Thanksgiving Day To reach the museum by subway, take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street Walk west on 86th Street, turn right at 5th Avenue and proceed north to 88th Street To reach the museum by bus, take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus on Madison or Fifth Avenue http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 8
photo: Alberto M Sánchez Madison Square Garden Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets 4 New York New York 10001 http://wwwthegardencom Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City where several professional sports franchises which play There have been four incarnations of the arena The first two were located at the northeast corner of Madison Square (Madison Avenue and 26th Street) from which the arena derived its name Subsequently a new 17,000-seat Garden (opened December 15, 1925) was built at 50th Street and 8th Avenue, and the current Garden (opened February 14, 1968) is at 7th Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station photo: Alberto M Sánchez 2-1968 Charles Luckman asanchez Enjoy a one-hour behind-the-scenes guided walking tour of the World's Most Famous Arena Visit the team locker rooms and experience the world of pro athletes and sports journalists Tours operate every day, approximately every half-hour from 11:00am -3:00pm By Subway: 1, 2, or 3 (Seventh Avenue Lines), A, C, or E (Eight Avenue Lines) to 34th Street/Penn Station Also B, D, F, N, Q, R or PATH to 34th Street/Avenue of the Americas (one block walk) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 9
photo: Thom Mckenzie photo: Thom Mckenzie 40 Bond Bond Street 40 New York New York 10012 http://www40bondcom/ This luxury apartment building on 40 Bond Street in New York, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is a sparkling reinterpretation of the traditional cast iron and brick loft buildings of the surrounding area The 11-storey building contains 27 luxury apartments and 5 townhouses, creating a new typology of apartments which combine housing with the services and amenities of a 5-star hotel The façade is constructed of concrete wrapped in blackened copper and luminescent curved glass The materials of the façade have been treated in numerous ways which create an ornamental ground floor and shimmering upper floors that respond to changes in light At street level the private entrances to the townhouses are protected by a large cast aluminium graffiti-inspired gate The building fits comfortably into its context by reinterpreting the typical Noho loft buildings and their materiality whilst standing out through the interesting and unique use of new materials and manufacturing processes Project is not public! 2007 Herzog and De Meuron Ian Schrager thom photo: Thom Mckenzie Subway: Take the 6 Line to Bleeker St or the B,D,F, V Lines to Broadway-Lafayette http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 10
photo: Fernando Miguel García Martín photo: Fernando Miguel García Martín Seagram Building Park Avenue 375 New York New York 10152 The Seagram Building located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with the American Philip Johnson and was completed in 1958 The Seagram Building was meant to confirm Mies' assertion that when modern industrialized building technology is truthfully expressed, architecture becomes transcendent Ironically, the luxurious materials used (marble for the plaza benches, travertine for the lobby walls and floor, tinted glass and bronze for the curtain wall) and the carefully controlled customized details that pervade the building remind the viewer that this building is far from being the simple result of rationalized industrial production and construction techniques Much copied but not matched, the Seagram Building is generally recognized as the finest example of skyscrapers in the International Style (text from New York ure Images) Public access unknown! 1958 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Joseph E Seagram & Sons fotosvoladoras photo: Fernando Miguel García Martín http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 11
photo: Roderick Trompert Empire State Building 5th Ave 350 New York New York NY 10018 http://wwwesbnyccom/ As a result of a competition between John Raskob (General Motors) and Walter Chrysler (Chrysler Corporation) to build the tallest building in the world, the Empire State Building was constructed The construction of the 381m high tower began on januari 22nd 1930 and finished on may 1st 1931; long before the planned finish date For a long period, the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world In 1971 this title was taken by the Twin Towers of the World Trace Center Though, ever since the destruction of the WTC due to the terrorist attacks on september 11th 2001, the Empire State Building is once again the tallest building in New York 5-1931 Contractor Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates Starrett Brothers and Eken General Motors Roderick photo: Roderick Trompert Open daily, 365 days a year: 08:00-0200 / Last elevators go up at 01:15 6 at 33rd St B, D, F, N, Q, R, V, W at 34th St-Herald Sq http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 12
photo: Roderick Trompert Flatiron Building 5th avenue 175 New York New York NY 10010 The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City The building sits on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue and Broadway, anchoring the south (downtown) end of Madison Square The neighborhood around the building is called the Flatiron District after its signature building The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style Like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade is separated into three parts horizontally Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet (87 m), which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time (text from Wikipedia) Project is not public! 1902 Daniel Burnham Roderick photo: Roderick Trompert Subway R, W / 23rd St Station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 13
photo: Roderick Trompert Prada flagship store Broadway 575 New York New York NY 10012 http://wwwpradacom/ Upon entering the store, which previously housed the SoHo branch of the Guggenheim Museum, visitors are met with a largely vacant space dominated by an oversized, round elevator OMA is said to have spent two months of research "investigating ways to reinvent the retail experience" Perhaps as a result of this, the ground floor only has a small amount of merchandise, relegating the majority of merchandise and actual shopping activity to the basement level, which feels cramped and lacks appropriate lighting The store's main design component is the half pipe-like wooden curve that connects the two floors visually On the Broadway side, the curve has steps and serves as a place for clothes to be shown According to OMA, this portion of the half pipe also serves as place for people to try on shoes, though in reality the shoe department is under the stepped side of the curve, and seating is provided there for shoppers photo: Roderick Trompert 2001, Interior architect OMA - Rem Koolhaas Roderick Prada Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 11am-7pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday:11am-8pm Sunday: 12pm-7pm Subway B,D, F, V Broadway-Lafayette St Station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 14
photo: Piotr Krajewski AT&T Corporate Headquarters Madison Avenue 550 New York New York 10022 http://wwwsonymusiccom/ The Sony Tower, formerly the AT&T Building, is a 647 feet (197 m) tall, 37-story highrise skyscraper located at 550 Madison Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Street in the New York City borough of ManhattanIt was designed by architect Philip Johnson and partner John Burgee, and was constructed in 1984 It became immediately controversial for its ornamental top (sometimes mocked as "Chippendale", after the open pediments characteristic of the famous English designer's bookcases and other cabinetry), but enjoyed for its spectacular arched entranceway, measuring about seven stories in height With these ornamental additions, the building challenged architectural modernism's demand for stark functionalism and purely efficient design For this it is considered by many critics to be a prime exemplar of postmodern architecture 1984 Main designer, Philip Johnson John Burgee pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski The building is open during office hours Accessible from Madison Avenue at 56th Street http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 15
photo: Piotr Krajewski Lipstick Building Third Avenue 885 New York New York 10022 The Lipstick Building (also known as 53rd at Third) is a 453 foot (138 meters) tall skyscraper located at 885 Third Avenue, between East 53rd Street and 54th Street, across from the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, New York City, It was completed in 1986 and has 34 floors The building was designed by John Burgee s with Philip Johnson The building receives its name from its shape and color, which resemble a tube of lipstick At three levels, blocks of the building recede as part of Manhattan's zoning regulation in which the building is required to recede within its spatial envelope, to increase the availability of light to street level The result is a form that looks as though it could retract telescopically The shape, which is unusual in comparison to surrounding buildings, uses less space at the base than a regular skyscraper of quadrilateral footprint would use This provides more room for the high numbers of pedestrians who travel via Third Avenue 1986 Main designer, Philip Johnson John Burgee pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski The Lipstick Building is on the east side of Third Avenue at 53rd Street http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 16
photo: Piotr Krajewski photo: Piotr Krajewski Louis Vuitton store East 57th Street 1 New York New York 10022 http://wwwvuittoncom Louis Vuitton's checkered pattern and the grid of that pattern were maintained in the inner layer of laminated glass and on the interior side of the glass respectively However, a checkered pattern with gradations in the transmission of light ranging from opacity to transparency, produced through changes in the dimensions of squares, was overlaid on that pattern From outside, the building as a whole is slightly opaque, but scenes of the interior can be glimpsed in rectangles with blurred edges The exterior finish was applied to a corner of the New York Trust Company Building, a 1930 work designed by Cross & Cross The present design is an attempt to realize, after 70 years, the spirit of the drawings by Hugh Ferriss, especially his vision of a New York skyscraper as a crystalline cluster(text from architects website) 2-2004 Main designer, Jun Aoki Cross & Cross Louis Vuitton pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski Open seven days a week http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 17
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw The Beekman Spruce Street 8 New York New York 10038 The Beekman, also known as Beekman Tower a is a 76-storey skyscraper, designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry It is located at 8 Spruce Street, just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge The Beekman Tower is one of the tallest buildings in New York City Developed by Forest City Ratner, it contains a public elementary school, which the Department of Education owns Above the elementary school there is a 903-unit luxury residential tower clad in stainless steel The building will also include space for New York Downtown Hospital Its structural frame will be all reinforced concrete 2010 Gehry Partners Forest City Ratner pkrajewski_pl photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 18
photo: Piotr Krajewski 7 World Trade Center Greenwich Street 250 New York New York 10007 http://wwwwtccom/ 7 World Trade Center is a building in New York City, located across from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan The name '7 World Trade Center' has referred to two buildings: the original structure, completed in 1987, and the current one On September 11, 2001, 7 WTC was damaged by debris when the nearby North Tower of the WTC collapsed 7 WTC would eventually collapse completely later that day Associated with the World Trade Center complex only by name, the new 7 WTC aspires to be a fresh image representing new growth The 52-storey Manhattan tower looks to historic SOM predecessors as a model of simple form and functional representation, but moves beyond these precedents through contemporary building enhancements that have created a new model for life safety and sustainable design (text from Wikipedia and architects' website) Public access unknown! 2006 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski http://wwwmimoaeu/users/_tulli_/guides/nyc/ 19