Archinect - News 2024-11-14T14:10:37-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/44502023/manhattan-memorious Manhattan Memorious risabelle 2012-04-10T11:28:00-04:00 >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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; a city of mad, incongruous utopias.</p></em><br /><br /><p> The film (created for Hong Kong &amp; Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale) visualizes several unrealized projects for Manhattan, including Buckminster Fuller&rsquo;s dome over Midtown, Rem Koolhaas&rsquo; City of the Captive Globe, RUR&rsquo;s East River Corridor, Paul Rudolph&rsquo;s Eastside Redevelopment Corridor, Morphosis&rsquo; West Side Yard and others.&nbsp;</p>