Intrivia.

Midtown Sleeps

We have presented a fairytale. Midtown Manhattan has been petrified - preserved as an urban artefact. Awaiting its rediscovery.

This project is an act of curation. We have reviewed Midtown, and assembled other related urban artefacts – The Empire State Building, McGraw-Hill Building, Flatiron, UN Secretariat. When the collection is complete, we have encased the entire Midtown area in a block of solid glass. Petrified. Midtown is now a singular urban object, preserved, and immune from outside pressures. It is not dead, it is sleeping. Awaiting a time when it might be rediscovered and understood again.

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(International Conceptual Competition, 2012)

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