Beijing.
Steven Holl, AIA, courtesy Museum of Modern Art
Through 02.02.09
Pré: Stephen Holl
The digital installation consists of 365 drawings made by Steven Holl, AIA, between 2002 and 2008. Over the past 30 years Holl has juxtaposed form, color, shape, thought, space, and building in small sketchpads. From little details to abstract studies, this collection of drawings covers his thought processes.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
Courtesy skyscraper.org
Through 02.09
Vertical Cities: Hong Kong | New York
This exhibition examines the evolving identities of two cities that embrace the skyscraper as the principal instrument of modern urbanism. Photographs, film, architectural drawings, maps, and large-scale models are on view to convey Hong Kong’s character, its iconic skyline, crowded commercial core with multi-level traffic, a network of pedestrian bridges, and vertical shopping malls. This is the second in a cycle of three related exhibitions entitled FUTURE CITY: 20 | 21 that juxtapose early 20th century American visions of the skyscraper city of the future with an exploration of Chinese cities today.
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place
SHoP Architects’ design for South Street Seaport.
SHoP Architects
Seaport Past & Future
This free public exhibition, designed by James Sanders and Associates, will take guests through two centuries of South Street Seaport’s changes. Multi-media features and scale models representing the district during crucial moments in history culminate with an architectural model of SHoP Architect’s proposed plan for the new Seaport. Visitors will be able to view archival material of vintage streetscapes — with the same views as they appear today — illustrating the continuities and change over time at the Seaport.
191 Front Street Gallery
191 Front Street, near John Street