1996.05_Vertical Landscape, Green Manhattanism (085.1996)

by: West 8, Adriaan Geuze

Collection: exhibitions; sfaaarchive; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Storefront for Art and Architecture, National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), and Mr. Robert M. Rubin

Contributor: Storefront for Art and Architecture

Language: English

exhibition announcement, statement and correspondence

Notes

THURSDAY MAY 16, 1996 %u2013 SATURDAY JUNE 29, 1996

We heard about this vertical city. We've seen the images of its skyscrapers and expected in this subline statement of towering ambition, astonishing pieces of vertical landscape: parks as ambitious as Chrysler, the Empire State and Rockfeller Center.
...
We still have our initial dream and we envision:
Sky-garden sets back Mies
The Flat iron (sequoia) twin
The inverted 24 hour nature
Ivy unlimited
The restpration of the block