Via 57 West, NYC
by Allen Beatty
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Via 57 West, NYC
Artist
Allen Beatty
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Photograph - Photographs
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For decades the New York skyline had certain landmarks which made it distinctive: The Empire State Building, The Chrysler Building, The Domino Sugar Factory, to name a few. But, as the song says, everything must change and that includes skylines. And my, how it is changing. For every resolute, limestone covered century-old financial and corporate institution that made up the fabric of NYC real estate there is now some weird angled, reflective, cantilevered piece of architecture that looks like it was dreamed up by skateboarders looking for their most radical rides. Here one of the new school of New York City structures, sure to make you do a double take.
First, it’s a tetrahedron **. Digest that for a minute. Second, what more could you expect from Danish wiz Bjarke Ingels, the architect who has made it his business to defy convention? Now based in NYC, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People. I can see why.
** A tetrahedron, also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra and the only one that has fewer than 5 faces. The tetrahedron is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a Euclidean simplex, and may thus also be called... Wikipedia
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April 19th, 2022
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