Tag: ARCHITECTURE
Federico Babina’s “Archiportraits” series imagines what iconic architects might look like if they had a hand in desiginging their own physical features. Le Corbusier becomes abstractly disjointed; Antoni Gaudi’s beard evokes the spires of the Sagrada Familia; Frank Gehry is all curved surfaces and unaligned windows. “A portrait is like the mirror of the soul,” Babina […]
The design firm Neoscape created these renderings of a futuristic LaGuardia to show what the dilapidated airport might look like in a few years with a little TLC. “This comprehensive vision integrates a modern, efficient and innovative design, including the striking all-glass facade, into La Guardia’s main terminal,” said Joseph Sitt, chairman of Global Gateway Alliance, […]
“A lot of people associate it with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Others think of a hamster wheel,” artist Ward Shelley tells ANIMAL, standing 25 feet above ground, perched on top of a large wooden wheel where he has been living for four days. Inside the wheel is partner artist Alex Schweder. For ten days, the artists are […]
The Italian architect and illustrator Frederico Babina created Archist, a series of playful images depicting imaginary buildings in the style of well-known artists. Each of the 27 pieces pays homage to a heavyweight of 20th-Century art — Warhol, Picasso, Duchamp, Dalí, Haring, and Miró all make appearances. “There is a symbiotic relationship and implicit partnership […]
“The top is the best part of the building — it is where everyone wants to be,” says Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who’s building six penthouses on top of the top of the Puck Building, at $20 to $60 million each. The New York Times reports this is a trend or something. There are some “extraordinarily […]
Here’s a strange proposal for dealing with the looming threat of more devastating floods in Lower Manhattan: stuff a bunch of shipping containers full of garbage, then line the island with them. It comes from designers Ishaan Kumar, Arianna Armelli, and David Sepulveda, finalists in the ONE Prize competition, which seeks to highlight big ideas in […]
The disorienting artwork you see above is From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes by the British artist and designer Alex Chinneck. Chinneck created the work in the Cliftonville section of Margate, a formerly wealthy town in seaside UK, from a worn down building that the local government had intended to turn into […]
The new face of Williamsburg’s iconic, abandoned Domino Sugar Factory has been revealed. Two Trees Management, which bought the property for $160 million last year, enlisted Barclays Center masterminds ShoP Architects to helm the project’s design, and the result is remarkable and sure to be polarizing: there’s a giant “O” -shaped high-rise that reportedly will […]
As part of the 2013 FIGMENT art festival happening on Governors Island in June, architects Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang will create a pavilion from over 53,000 plastic bottles–the number that New Yorkers throw away every hour. The structure, in both its materials and its visual style, is a slightly less elegant dead ringer for […]
This week, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the winner of a contest to design the future of NYC living — 300-some-odd-square-foot micro apartments, packing in more people into smaller spaces with higher ceilings and still comically high rents. (Bloomberg plans to skirt legislation that prohibits building new apartments smaller than 400 square feet by constructing the first […]
