I looks like most of you figured out that my last post 'Wedding Cake Convention' was the fourth installment of 'Full on and Flat out in New York', so here comes the fifth and as the title suggests final part...Enjoy!
The museum of modern art forms an oasis in the desert of skyscrapers, the only problem being that I would need a week view all the fantastic artwork along with the exhibition of the works of Alvar Aalto: Dali, Mondrian, Miro...
Mc Donalds? top food in contrast to McD in the UK. The burger tastes like it contains beef, the fries actually contain potato and the regular meal is too much to finish in one hit. The view over Manhattan from the Empire State building at night: too hot for ice now so the observation deck is now open. Reminiscent of Italo Calvino’s invisible cities where the city of Irene when viewed from the plateau in the distance, is a different city from the one you would stand within. From here the places with reputations for being ‘rough’ Bronx, Harlem, Brooklyn, are looking pretty, fed by the constantly moving lines of flux, ignited in the darkness by the car headlights and tail-lights, painting white and red streaks through the cityscape. Whilst planes streak their own lines across the sky, like fireflies as they are flying in and out of JFK and Newark Airports, that’s a serious amount of people arriving and departing the metropolis.
Legendary New York rockers Kiss are immortalised in plastic at F.A.O. Schwartz’s. The Lincoln Centre, home of the New York Symphony Orchestra and its own slightly overweight statue of liberty is strangely deserted during the day, nearby Columbus circus at the East entrance of Central Park forms one impressive entrance to the subway. The Walking City has made its way to Chinatown, at the Storefront, an architectural gallery to be exact, which in itself is a dramatic intervention into the cityscape, with doors and windows that are rotating panels set so that they offer fragmented views of the city. Inside, the walls are covered with a complete fragment of the Archigram exhibition as viewed in Manchester earlier in the year. Here the exhibition is made up of the work of Ron Herron, best known for walking cities, but here the exhibition also concentrates on the work of his practice since Archigram. The work of the other members of the group are exhibited elsewhere in the city, at the Architecture schools at Columbia University and Cooper Union.
Battery Park City to the south, or is it Southend-on-sea, Brighton or Bournemouth with its pier and sea front pavilions. Walking between the wedding cakes of wall street, the spaces narrow and dark, is this really the financial centre of the world? On the return, travelling beneath the Hudson river and into New Jersey. Manhattan in the rain quite fitting that the city that has been home for the past nine days, signified by Empire State and the Twin Towers fade in the mist as they fade into memory.
NYC 1998
The museum of modern art forms an oasis in the desert of skyscrapers, the only problem being that I would need a week view all the fantastic artwork along with the exhibition of the works of Alvar Aalto: Dali, Mondrian, Miro...
Mc Donalds? top food in contrast to McD in the UK. The burger tastes like it contains beef, the fries actually contain potato and the regular meal is too much to finish in one hit. The view over Manhattan from the Empire State building at night: too hot for ice now so the observation deck is now open. Reminiscent of Italo Calvino’s invisible cities where the city of Irene when viewed from the plateau in the distance, is a different city from the one you would stand within. From here the places with reputations for being ‘rough’ Bronx, Harlem, Brooklyn, are looking pretty, fed by the constantly moving lines of flux, ignited in the darkness by the car headlights and tail-lights, painting white and red streaks through the cityscape. Whilst planes streak their own lines across the sky, like fireflies as they are flying in and out of JFK and Newark Airports, that’s a serious amount of people arriving and departing the metropolis.
Legendary New York rockers Kiss are immortalised in plastic at F.A.O. Schwartz’s. The Lincoln Centre, home of the New York Symphony Orchestra and its own slightly overweight statue of liberty is strangely deserted during the day, nearby Columbus circus at the East entrance of Central Park forms one impressive entrance to the subway. The Walking City has made its way to Chinatown, at the Storefront, an architectural gallery to be exact, which in itself is a dramatic intervention into the cityscape, with doors and windows that are rotating panels set so that they offer fragmented views of the city. Inside, the walls are covered with a complete fragment of the Archigram exhibition as viewed in Manchester earlier in the year. Here the exhibition is made up of the work of Ron Herron, best known for walking cities, but here the exhibition also concentrates on the work of his practice since Archigram. The work of the other members of the group are exhibited elsewhere in the city, at the Architecture schools at Columbia University and Cooper Union.
Battery Park City to the south, or is it Southend-on-sea, Brighton or Bournemouth with its pier and sea front pavilions. Walking between the wedding cakes of wall street, the spaces narrow and dark, is this really the financial centre of the world? On the return, travelling beneath the Hudson river and into New Jersey. Manhattan in the rain quite fitting that the city that has been home for the past nine days, signified by Empire State and the Twin Towers fade in the mist as they fade into memory.
NYC 1998
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