Archinect - News2024-05-04T20:41:51-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/44502023/manhattan-memorious
Manhattan Memorious risabelle2012-04-10T11:28:00-04:00>2012-04-17T16:20:48-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/nb/nbdbefjrvw1ghbqy.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Before a city becomes a thing of steel, concrete, and glass it is a theater of visions in conflict. As a city ages, the visions do not die but come up against the physical and ideological resistance of the place and its people. This is an account of a Manhattan that could have been – might have been. A phantasmagorical Manhattan where the visionary meets the everyday. The island as we know it is but a pale reflection of a city designed by visionaries – a city of mad, incongruous utopias.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
The film (created for Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale) visualizes several unrealized projects for Manhattan, including Buckminster Fuller’s dome over Midtown, Rem Koolhaas’ City of the Captive Globe, RUR’s East River Corridor, Paul Rudolph’s Eastside Redevelopment Corridor, Morphosis’ West Side Yard and others. </p>