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Whitney Downtown Breaks Ground, Drives Piles




Wednesday, November 2, 2011, by Kelsey Keith

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With no ceremonial drums or interactive flythroughs in sight, the Whitney Museum's downtown outpost is digging in to its Meatpacking District lot. The groundbreaking was back in May; now, slowly but surely, the Renzo Piano-designed structure is getting comfortable with some "dewatering, some excavation, a smattering of underpinning, and lots of pile driving to prep the site before the ground gets too cold." This, according to roving photographer Tim Schenck who stopped by to check out the progress.

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West Side's Museum Mile

November 3, 2011
By JENNIFER MALONEY

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The first lease for the Hudson Yards project is breathing life into another idea: A new space for arts and culture on the site that, along with the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, would bookend what is envisioned as a kind of Museum Mile for the West Side. City officials say they are planning a Hudson Yards arts center that serves as a blank canvas. It could simultaneously host theater performances, traveling exhibitions and community events on different floors—or the entire space could be marshaled to stage one large show.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that the center, which has been part of the project's plans since its 2005 inception, will become the home of Fashion Week. "This would add a great deal to New York's ability to have big events and keep the industries that are coming here growing," he said while announcing that Coach Inc. plans to be the first tenant in an office tower built by Related Cos.

If the plan comes to fruition, people will be able to stroll along the High Line from the Whitney, stop at a few Chelsea galleries and continue to the Culture Shed, a space that city officials say would showcase not just art, but fashion and industrial design.

City officials cautioned that the Culture Shed is still in its infancy. Officials, who are shepherding the idea but won't run the center, said they hope to have a clearer plan by next summer for the building's design, the money required to build it and the shape of the nonprofit organization that will lead it. The design, by Diller Scofidio & Renfro, in partnership with the Rockwell Group, is still under development. An early rendering showed a five-story building with a footprint of 22,000 square feet, couched in two outer shells that could be rolled outward to expand the space to more than 55,000 square feet.
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Didn't know where else to put this, but it looks incredible.

ZOMG, Could This Be New York City's Space Shuttle Museum?
Friday, November 4, 2011, by Kelsey Keith

"...The 75,000 square foot space would have the shuttle at its center, plus classrooms, laboratories, a theater and rooftop restaurant. Intrepid President Susan Marenoff-Zausner said that as of a projected opening in 2014, the museum expects "300,000 additional visitors per year, 1,186 new jobs, and will generate about $143 million-a-year in revenue."



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^ I like it, and imagine it will only be more impressive at night.
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I would be among the first in line to get inside this museum, looks amazing.
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Video tour of the planned new Whitney...
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I suppose the industrial/factory feel of this building is supposed to fit in with the context of the area. I'm not too happy with the design though, it is rather industrial looking. Renzo could have done much better of course.
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Long Live Queens
Ten years from start, Queens Museum of Art back on track.






Tom Stoelker
1/31/2012

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Designed by Robert Moses’ man Aymar Embury II for the 1939 World’s Fair, the building once housed an ice skating rink in half its vast column-free hall; the rink was moved out as part of the failed 2012 Olympic bid, allowing the museum to expand within its own walls from 50,000 to 100,000 feet. In 2003, Eric Owen Moss won New York City’s first Design Excellence competition to develop an iconic design for the space. Moss’ proposed slumped-glass entry addition would have wiped out the central section of the original building, and in 2005 it was scrapped. At the time, the museum’s executive director Tom Finkelpearl told AN that “things weren’t clicking.” One year later, a new design by Grimshaw emerged, embracing the original art deco-inspired structure.

The designs released in 2006 responded to a need to catch the attention of 250,000 Grand Central Parkway commuters while incorporating two formal entryways. The entrance facing Flushing Meadows Park maintained Embury’s classical colonnade, while the entrance facing Grand Central Parkway placed an illuminated glass curtain wall in front of the columns. Original designs included the name of the museum translated into scores of languages and etched onto the glass. It also incorporated a floor-to-ceiling arched glass dividing wall in the interior that would have disrupted Embury’s column-free 115-foot arched truss. Both elements have been altered.

Inside, the truss will flow free of disruption. “We’ll be able to do large-scale installations like no other museum in America,” said Finkelpearl. A small skylight above the central lobby and a larger one to the south between two galleries feature baffles that direct light downward, while a series of angled glass panels—50 percent transparent—frame the skylight. Each row of hanging glass panels follows the rectangular form of the skylights before dropping down and shifting in angle so as to block and direct natural light.

The most important design element is at the western facade. A sand-blasted dot graphic runs up the glass, becoming less dense toward the top. At night, the dot finish will be kinetically lit by LEDs programmed by a guest artist. Metal halide lights will wash over a vertical metal mesh that runs perpendicular to the glass, and a two-tone metallic finish will form letters that read “Queens” when viewed from the north and “Museum” when viewed from the south.









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Metropolitan Musem of Art Finally Plans New Fifth Ave Plaza

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, by Sara Polsky





"The crowded and, well, blah plaza outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed for a makeover, now that museum trustee and philanthropist David H. Koch has promised $60 million for the project. The Times has the details on the redo, which could begin this fall if various city departments give the thumbs-up. The plan from Philly-based firm OLIN involves smaller fountains—"programmed by computer to provide a variety of water patterns during the warm months"—which will become reflecting pools in winter. The revamped plaza will have double the current number of trees, including some topiaries; benches and retractable parasols; bronze kiosks for information and food; spots for street vendors; and night-time LED lighting. That all sounds fun, and the rendering above gives only a partial view."
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^ Larger view of the plaza rendering...

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BREAKING: HWKN Wins 2012 PS 1 Young Architects Program




February 8, 2012
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New York-based HWKN has been selected for this year’s MoMA/PS 1 Young Architects Program. Their proposal, called “Wendy,” uses standard scaffolding to create a visually arresting object that straddles the three outdoor rooms of the PS 1 courtyard. Tensioned fabric coated in smog-eating paint provides shelter and programming areas including a stage, shower, and misters. “Their proposal is quite attractive in a number of ways. It’s very economical in terms of design,” said Pedro Gadanho, the curator of contemporary architecture at MoMA. “One object creates a variety of programmatic and ecological conditions and its scale rivals the height of the PS 1 building.”

All the materials can be disassembled and reused, and according to Gadanho, the jury was particularly impressed with the combination of standardized parts (the scaffolding) and cutting edge technology (the smog-eating coating). “It’s pro-active, it’s not apologetic,” he said. “It begins to point to a new way to think about sustainability.” The designers, led by principals Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner and project architect Robert May, estimate the fabric will remove as much smog as taking 250 cars off the road. The pavilion will open in late June.








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Metropolitan Musem of Art Finally Plans New Fifth Ave Plaza

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, by Sara Polsky





Time for some NIMBYism...


http://www.dnainfo.com/20120214/uppe...-neighbors-say
Met Museum's $60M Plaza Would Be an Unwelcome 'Hangout,' Neighbors Say



February 14, 2012
By Amy Zimmer

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Grand plans for a multi-million dollar plaza stretching four blocks outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art have angered Upper East Siders — who fear the creation of a Fifth Avenue “hangout.” The major overhaul of the tourist-crammed spot beside Central Park includes the creation of seating areas with 400 chairs and 100 tables scattered under new trees and umbrellas for shade. But, instead of a vision of European-style splendor, the plaza’s well-heeled neighbors see it as little more than a huge gathering spot. “I don’t think it’s appropriate,” Community Board 8 member Peggy Price said. “This is a neighborhood, not a place to hang out.”

The new seating will help redirect traffic from the museum’s steps, which are a popular spot for tourists to sit as thousands more try to get in and out of the 82nd Street entrance, the Met’s director and CEO Thomas Campbell said at the board’s landmarks committee meeting Monday night.

Residents also criticized the Met's plans to build a kiosk in the plaza to sell tickets and another to sell refreshments. They were chagrined to learn that the street vendors selling art and food would have designated spots after the renovation.

"We don’t really need ticket vending outside the museum in that gorgeous plaza you’re going to create," said Paul Whitby, who lives across the street from the Met. "I think this is going to be a windfall for the food vendors,” community board member Michele Birnbaum said. She also thought it would be a boon to Madison Avenue delis that sell picnic lunches to park-goers. "I think if you’re providing additional seating for 400 people," she said. "I think it will be a picnic destination.”

The Met needs various city approvals, including from the Public Design Commission, before it can move forward on the 23 month-long construction. Museum officials are seeking the commission's final approval by July, and are hoping to start work in the fall.




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Some Whitney Museum expansion photos from Vin Schiano

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“I don’t think it’s appropriate,” Community Board 8 member Peggy Price said. “This is a neighborhood, not a place to hang out.”
Yes, because one should never hang out in a neighbourhood. Fucking NIMBYs.
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Yes, because one should never hang out in a neighbourhood. Fucking NIMBYs.
LOL, in classic nimbyism, they just want the place to themselves.
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Another look at the latest addition to the Queens Museum...

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they need to replace the Twin towers.....
They will after the new WTC is complete.
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Great news!!!

Looks Like All Systems Go for Space Shuttle Museum
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, by Dave Hogarty

"Ground crews are doing preliminary flight check before the takeoff of Enterprise Museum construction."

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They will after the new WTC is complete.
Interesting that they removed the Deutsche Bank, and added Goldman Sachs HQ (200 West St), but they haven't added 7WTC, completed long b4 200 West or DB's demo was completed.
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