Archinect - News2024-05-04T03:36:24-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150277168/a-mysterious-painting-could-be-an-earlier-plan-for-one-of-mies-van-der-rohe-s-most-revered-residential-projects
A mysterious painting could be an earlier plan for one of Mies van der Rohe's most revered residential projects Josh Niland2021-08-09T17:32:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c8/c8e760d859df7ac0014ce59676290345.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>“It’s been fifty years since Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s death and the details of his international career have been carefully archived. But a mysterious painting has surfaced that reveals what may be an early version of his master plan in Newark”</p></em><br /><br /><p>The supposed painting depicts what could have been a disastrous expansion of the footprint of van der Rohe’s iconic 1960 apartment complex.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a1/a15e4e928400684b0383a108cabf6924.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a1/a15e4e928400684b0383a108cabf6924.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Courtesy of Newark Public Library Digital Collections</figcaption></figure><p>His Colonnade Apartments are perhaps the foremost example of the “Towers in the Park” typology synonymous with the International Style in the northeast. The painting depicts a seven-tower scheme that expands the plot north of 6th Avenue by several blocks. A local architect named Gabriel Dal’Maso reportedly came into its possession after seeing it in a <a href="https://vimeo.com/368503012" target="_blank">2011 documentary about the Colonnade</a> by the Austrian filmmaker <a href="https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1922/" target="_blank">Heidrun Holzfeind</a>. </p>
<p>Dal’Maso began inspecting the painting in the midst of a one-man stand against a proposed development at an abandoned area adjacent to the Pavillion towers, where he was living at the time. The towers were<a href="https://www.roi-nj.com/2018/03/16/real_estate/newarks-pavilion-apartments-sold-for-70-5m/" target="_blank"> sold into private hands</a> in 2018 and <a href="https://www.costar.com/article/1681393573/newark-new-jersey%E2%80%99s-colonnade-sells-for-775-million" target="_blank">again</a> earlier this year to the tune of $77 million. <em>JerseyDigs</em> has more on the mystery Mies plans <a href="https://jerseydigs.com/mysterious-painting-reveals-architects-unfinished-vision-for-newark/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>...
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This secret swimming pool in the Mojave desert could be all yours... Archinect2014-06-30T18:51:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b5/b5c87e93b09461c03f19c8b2c5642886?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The piece was completed last Friday and it consists of a single, diminutive swimming pool located somewhere in the southern Mojave Desert between Joshua Tree and Apple Valley. The public is allowed to use the pool, but in order to do so visitors need the key that unlocks it (it is kept covered) as well as the GPS coordinates. Only once you have the key, which is kept at the MAK Center, are you given the coordinates.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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