Jose the Amazing est le nom de la nouvelle série de photos de Chris Arnade qui présente le jeune José Garcia originaire de Brooklyn dans des postures acrobatiques ou en train de sauter, défiant la gravité. Des clichés très réussis, et sur lesquels Photoshop n’a pas été utilisé, à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Le photographe suisse Gus Petro confronte dans ses photographies deux espaces radicalement opposés : le Grand Canyon et New York City. Il les fusionne remplissant le vide de l’un par le trop plein de l’autre, créant un nouvel espace à la fois étrange et représentatif d’une culture dont il mélange deux des plus grands symboles.
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our final movie from New York, design journalist Monica Khemsurov takes us to exhibitions around the Noho Design District and imparts an optimistic outlook for young designers in the city.
Khemsurov, along with her online design magazine Sight Unseen co-founder Jill Singer, set up the Noho Design District in 2010, aiming to provide an alternative platform to the ICFF trade fair.
“The idea was to be an offsite show for New York design week, in which young designers could show their work,” she says. “We wanted to make a neighbourhood that felt more intimate and had more of a fun, experimental feel than what has been shown at New York design week in the past.”
Noho is named after its location north of Houston Street in Manhattan, bounded by Broadway to the west and Bowery to the east. On the first stop of our tour, Khemsurov takes us to the district’s hub exhibition Noho Next, curated by Sight Unseen and featuring new work by twelve American designers.
Next up is the Here & There of design for travel at the showroom of design studio Various Projects, which features a canoe made from Dacron, kevlar and wood by designers Colgate Searle and Matthias Pliessnig that Khensurov assures us is “fully functional, water safe and can be floated on a lake.”
A braided textile piece woven by New York artist Dana Barnes is picked out at the preserved 19th Century Merchant’s House Museum. “Sight Unseen invited seven American designers to install their work made with modern craft techniques,” Khensurov explains.
We then go beneath the Standard East Village hotel to the Chez Andre nightclub to see the American Design Club’s exhibition titled Trophy. “This show is about everyday trophies or objects that are momentos or that commemorate moments of your life,” Khemsurov says.
Finally, she shares her thoughts on New York design scene’s current status: “In the past five years, a lot of young designers have gone out on their own and started their own studios.
“A lot of people are producing their own work, which gives them more freedom to express themselves and make interesting and exciting design, so I think there’s never been a better time for the New York design scene.”
We drove around New York in our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
In our previous reports from New York, Willy Wong introduces the NYCxDesign festival and Stephen Burks takes us on a tour of the city’s High Line park.
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Ithaca design studio CODA has installed a wall that squirts water and is clad with skateboard offcuts in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York.
Party Wall was the winning entry of this year’s Young Architects Program, an annual contest organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a temporary installation offering seating, shade and water during the outdoor events of the MoMA PS1 contemporary art gallery.
CODA‘s installation is a steel-framed structure that functions as a giant aqueduct. Water travels alongs the top of the wall and is forced by a pressure tank to form a fountain, feeding a misting station and a series of paddling pools.
The cladding is made from interlocking wooden panels, recognisable as the offcuts from a skateboard manufacturer. There are also 120 removable elements that can function as benches or tables.
Water-filled plastic pillows are suspended inside the structure and help weight it down. At night, these inflatable elements are illuminated and glow through the gaps in the facade.
Party Wall will remain in place until the end of August and will be used during the annual Warm Up event – a showcase of experimental music and sound.
CODA fended off a shortlist of five architects to win the competition in January, becoming the fourteenth studio to participate in the programme. Last year’s installation was a blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture by HWKN, while previous editions have been completed by SO-IL, Interboro Partners and Ball-Nogues.
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Photography is by Charles Roussel.
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The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 Present Party Wall by CODA, winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program, at MoMA PS1 in New York
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce the opening of Party Wall, the CODA (Caroline O’Donnell, Ithaca, NY)–designed winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 14th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 is committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. CODA, drawn from among five finalists, designed a temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.
Party Wall is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.
The porous facade is affixed to a tall self-supporting steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water, and clad with a screen of interlocking wooden elements comprised of donated from Comet, an Ithaca-based manufacturer of eco-friendly skateboards.
The lower portion of the Party Wall’s facade is capable of shedding its “exterior,” as 120 panels can be detached from the structure and used as benches and communal tables during Warm Up and other diverse events and programs such as lectures, classes, performances, and film screenings.
A shallow stage of reclaimed wood weaves around Party Wall’s base to create a series of micro-stages for performances of varying types and scales. At various locations under the structure, pools of water serve as refreshing cooling stations that can also be covered to provide additional staging space or a shaded area from the direct sunlight.
Party Wall’s steel-angle structure is ballasted by water-filled “pillows” made of polyester base fabric that will be lit at night to produce a luminous effect. Party Wall acts as an aqueduct by carrying a stream of water along the top of the structure. The water is projected from the structure, via a pressure-tank, into a fountain that feeds a misting station and a series of pools.
“CODA’s proposal was selected because of its clever identification and use of locally available resources—the waste products of skateboard-making—to make an impactful and poetic architectural statement within MoMA PS1’s courtyard,” said Pedro Gadanho, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. “Party Wall arches over the various available spaces, activating them for different purposes, while making evident that even the most unexpected materials can always be reinvented to originate architectural form and its ability to communicate with the public.”
“CODA developed an outstanding, iconic design that will support the many social functions of our large-scale group exhibition EXPO 1: New York, while creating a unique and stunning object for our outdoor galleries,” added Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at MoMA.
The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were Leong Architects (New York, NY, Dominic Leong, Chris Leong); Moorhead & Moorhead (New York, NY, Granger Moorhead, Robert Moorehead); TempAgency (Charlottesville, VA, and Brooklyn, NY, Leena Cho, Rychlee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell); and French 2D (Boston, MA, and Syracuse, NY, Anda French, Jenny French).
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our third report from New York, Willy Wong, chief creative officer for the city’s marketing and tourism agency, introduces the new NYCxDesign festival and explains why the city is starting to put more money behind its design industries.
NYCxDesign, which launched this year, is a new design festival that encompasses a range of existing shows including the Frieze New York art fair, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), Wanted Design and NoHo Design District, as well as a programme of new events such as designjunction’s Intro NY.
Wong explains that one of the motivations behind NYCxDesign was a report by the Centre for an Urban Future think tank, which identified the untapped economic potential of New York’s design sector.
“A few years ago there was a report that identified design as an industry that the city should really embrace,” says Wong. “There should be a moment in time when the city actually celebrates all of the great design that happens in New York.”
“In 2009 they discovered that there were almost 40,000 designers in New York, and that’s a huge concentration compared to other cities in the US,” he continues. “So there’s a real reason to invest in the sector.”
The influx of visitors that come to New York each year for the big design shows is also good for the economy, Wong goes on to explain.
“Events like ICFF bring in close to 30,000 people a year, and that’s just for ICFF,” he says. “Whenever we are taking on an initiative, we are looking at both the qualitative cultural effects but at the same time the economic impact.”
Wong believes that the city’s current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who has been in office since 2002, has “focussed on design as a competitive advantage for the city,” citing the High Line as an example of the kind of project that has helped to improve New York’s built environment. “There’s a real consideration on transforming what it means to be a city.”
We drove around New York our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
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News: urban improvements such as cycle paths, parks and public transport could transform Brooklyn and help turn New York City into the USA’s leading location for technology firms, according to plans unveiled this week.
“New York City, now the second leading tech hub in the nation, can overtake Silicon Valley in the top spot,” said the Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition, as it unveiled a strategic plan to transform former industrial areas of the borough into a high-tech hub.
The coalition wants to transform the area between Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO and the Brooklyn Navy Yard by creating new office spaces, improving transportation and pedestrian access, and adding cycle paths, footbridges and more green areas.
New York architects WXY Architecture + Urban Design drew up the plan. WXY founding principal Claire Weisz said: “The plan will help make the Tech Triangle a great place for tech firms to be – encouraging cafes and new outdoor spaces, better cycle routes, and new spaces for startups.”
“The city has a golden opportunity in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle,” said Tucker Reed, president of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, one of the organisations backing the plan. “This new strategic plan lays out specific ideas which will make the Brooklyn Tech Triangle the most attractive place for tech to set up shop and stay.”
The initiative comes at a time when New York’s technology sector is experiencing a surge in activity, with companies including Facebook opening new offices in the city and Cornell University partnering with the city to build a large tech campus on Roosevelt Island in the East River.
This boom is part of what some commentators see as a broader shift that is seeing tech firms move away from the sprawling, suburban culture of Silicon Valley to more compact, urban locations such as New York and London.
In an article in The Wall Street Journal last year, urban studies theorist Richard Florida claimed that technology firms are moving to cities to be closer to designers and end users, as well as the vibrant urban culture that cities offer. Engineers today are “less interested in owning cars and big houses,” preferring to live “somewhere which has lots of bars and lots of places you can eat,” Florida wrote.
Brooklyn is already home to many innovation-based firms, including online marketplace Etsy and 3D printer brand MakerBot, but the coalition believes that limited spaces for new businesses could stifle growth.
In response, WXY have devised a scheme to create a “Special Innovation District” by incentivising the redevelopment of industrial buildings.
WXY’s managing principal Adam Lubinsky said: “Brooklyn’s synergy between living and working in a creative environment will benefit from initiatives like the Special Innovation District, bolstered by relocation incentives tweaked for startups and incentives for landowners to upgrade their buildings.”
The architects also propose creating a hot-air balloon-inspired observation platform, a cafe and a “tech terrace” with a huge digital screen. Brooklyn Tech Triangle claims that the proposals could act as a blueprint for other innovation districts in New York, helping the city to overcome Silicon Valley as the most popular location in the country for technology firms.
Research conducted by the coalition found that more than 9,600 people were employed in 560 tech companies in Brooklyn in 2012, which generated $3.1 billion. This figure is set to almost double by 2015.
The strategy has been backed by the public, private and academic sectors and now requires support from the government and real estate companies so over 370,000 square metres of space can be adapted to house technology and creative companies.
Several other cities have recently launched initiatives aimed at challenging Silicon Valley’s dominance of the technology industry, including the Tech City district of East London, which is home to a shared workplace operated by Google and is the site of a proposal for an office building covered in digital advertisements by architects 00:/.
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Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition reveals strategy to surpass Silicon Valley
Plan details proposals on workforce development, real estate incentives and zoning, transportation linkages and public space creation
New York City, now the second leading tech hub in the nation, can overtake Silicon Valley in the top spot, according to a strategic plan released today by the Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition. The strategy – which has broad public-, private- and academic-sector backing – calls for enhancing workforce development, increasing the availability of affordable real estate, and improving transportation and public environs. It also points out that failure to take action now could jeopardize the City’s economic vitality. Focused on the areas between Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the plan is widely viewed as the model for creating innovation districts throughout NYC.
The Brooklyn Tech Triangle is a magnet for innovation-based entrepreneurs and has emerged as the City’s largest cluster of tech activity outside of Manhattan. It is projected that in two years the area will support 18,000 tech-related jobs and 43,000 indirect jobs. However, a lack of appropriate commercial and light industrial space to support the innovation economy and an adequately trained workforce, among other factors, threaten to stifle this growth, according to the strategic plan authored by a team led by WXY Architecture + Urban Design.
The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition – led by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, DUMBO Improvement District and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation – seeks to address these challenges. If the Brooklyn Tech Triangle plan is fully implemented with support from government, the real estate community, tech firms and academic institutions, up to 4 million square feet of space in the Tech Triangle would be occupied by tech and creative businesses in 2015.
Funding and other support for the Brooklyn Tech Triangle initiative has come from Empire State Development Corporation, Office of New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City Department of Small Business Services, New York City Council and Speaker Christine Quinn, Borough President Marty Markowitz, New York University, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Brooklyn Community Foundation.
“The City has a golden opportunity in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle,” said Tucker Reed, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. “To seize it, we need to create space for tech growth and tap into our talent pools of local residents and students enrolled in the area’s 12 universities. This new strategic plan lays out specific ideas which will make the Brooklyn Tech Triangle the most attractive place for tech to set up shop and stay.”
The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition conducted an economic impact study of the tech sector in Brooklyn in 2012 that found there are more than 520 tech companies employing over 9,600 people, generating $3.1 billion of economic output and is poised to nearly double by 2015, requiring an additional 2.2 million square feet of office space. Following the study, the coalition formed a task force comprised of local tech firms, entrepreneurs, government representatives, real estate firms, area residents and civic leaders and educators to develop a strategic plan to capitalize on this upward trend.
“Innovative companies want to grow and create great jobs here. We have to unlock the potential of our real estate – the buildings that were home to New York’s industrial boom once before – to make sure they can do just that. We also have to unlock the potential of our local workforce to make sure they can give those jobs to New Yorkers for years to come,” said Alexandria Sica, executive director of the DUMBO Improvement District. “The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition looks forward to working with residents, companies and elected leaders to turn these ideas into reality.”
“This is an activation plan for the 21st century and a blueprint for ensuring that surrounding communities can benefit from economic opportunities emerging in the Tech Triangle, and that innovation economy businesses find space to grow,” said Andrew Kimball, president/CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second movie from New York, designer Stephen Burks takes us to the High Line and explains how the elevated park is helping to transform the surrounding areas of the city.
Designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations along with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and garden designer Piet Oudolf, the High Line park runs through New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood along the lower west side of Manhattan on 1.5 miles of repurposed elevated railway.
“For decades [the High Line] was an overgrown railroad track, left over from an era when elevated trains roared through Manhattan,” says Burks. “Today it’s a multi-million dollar park that’s welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors a day.”
The park was completed in 2009 and Burks believes the project has been the catalyst for the regeneration of the Chelsea area and the Meatpacking District next to it.
“The High Line is really connecting the dots of the city’s best upcoming architecture,” he says, pointing out Jean Nouvel‘s 2010 apartment block 100 11th Avenue and Shigeru Ban‘s Metal Shutter House, completed in 2011, both of which cluster around an earlier Frank Gehry office building.
A little further along the park is HL23, a new apartment building by Niel Denari, which Burks explains is the American architect’s “first multi-story building in America”.
Further north again is Hôtel Americano, designed by Mexican architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos, which features a new bar in the basement by German artist Tobias Rehberger.
At the southern end of the park, construction is underway on Renzo Piano‘s new building for The Whitney Museum of American Art, which is moving across town to the Meatpacking District from it’s current location on Madison Avenue on the upper east side of Manhattan.
“All of these new contemporary projects probably wouldn’t have been placed here had it not been for the High Line,” says Burks.
Burks is also a big fan of the High Line itself. “Some of the things that I love about the High Line in terms of design is the way that they’ve seamlessly integrated the design elements with nature and with elements that look like it just kind of happened,” he goes on to say.
“[It’s] almost as if this very beautiful paved surface with finger-like projections into the lawns just landed here amongst the wild grasses, amongst the trees. It’s a great work of landscape architecture.”
We drove to the High Line in our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
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News: SHoP Architects and SOM are among four firms putting forward their visions for the future of New York’s Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden.
In an event at the Times Center last night, the Municipal Art Society of New York also unveiled proposals by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, each reimagining the rail hub and the indoor arena that sits atop it.
SHoP Architects proposes to expand the main hall of Penn Station into a bright and airy space surrounded by new parks and amenities. An extension of the High Line – the New York park built along a section of a former elevated railway – would connect the station to a new Madison Square Garden offsite.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) put forward a huge expansion of the station centred around a central, transparent ticket hall. Floating above it would be an inverted dome containing offices, apartments and green spaces staggered over multiple levels.
The proposal by Diller Scofidio + Renfro suggests moving Madison Square Garden across Eighth Avenue and expanding Penn Station upwards to include new amenities such as a theatre and spa.
Finally, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture proposes shifting Madison Square Garden to a 16-acre platform over the Hudson River at 34th Street, creating cycling and pedestrian promenades and a new 16-acre park.
The competition was launched to encourage discussion about the future of the site, which seems increasingly uncertain. While the owners of Madison Square Garden have asked to renew their permit for the site above the station “in perpetuity”, the New York City Planning Commission recently voted to limit it to 15 years, placing a question mark over the arena’s future.
Penn Station, which was designed to accommodate around 200,000 passengers a day but now has to deal with around 640,000, is seen by many New Yorkers as inefficient and badly in need of an update.
Last year the Municipal Art Society invited architects to suggest improvements to New York’s Grand Central Terminal, with SOM coming up with a floating observation deck that slides up and down and Foster + Partners proposing to increase the station’s capacity.
Other railway stations we’ve published include a Spanish station with a faceted aluminium interior and the vaulted concourse by John McAslan + Partners at King’s Cross Station in London – see all stations and transport hubs.
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The New York home and studio of the late American artist Donald Judd will open to the public next month following a three-year restoration (+ slideshow).
Led by New York-based Architecture Research Office (ARO), a team of consultants and engineers have restored the interiors of the five-storey residence at 101 Spring Street, where Judd lived and worked from 1968 until his death in 1994 and amassed a collection of over 500 artworks.
The project involved maintaining the open-plan layout created by Judd and reconditioning the timber floors and exposed plaster walls. The team also had to replace an existing spiral staircase to bring the building in line with current health and safety standards.
“Our goal has been to preserve Donald Judd’s vision for the building and make it accessible to the public, while satisfying contemporary building requirements,” said ARO principal Adam Yarinsky. “The entire design team worked with creativity, diligence, and sensitivity to resolve the complex challenges involved in reconciling these objectives.”
The team meticulously catalogued the situation of every sculpture, painting and object in the house, including pieces by Judd himself as well as works gifted by artist-friends such as Claes Oldenburg, Carl Andre and Dan Flavin, plus older artworks by Marcel Duchamp, Ad Reinhardt and more. Following the restoration, each object was returned to its exact position.
The ground floor of the house was previously used by Judd as a living room and will now serve as an event and lecture space for the Judd Foundation, the charity responsible for the building. As visitors arrive, one of the first things they’ll spot is a sculpture by Andre comprising a stack of bricks.
A Judd-designed kitchen with a wooden table and central stove features on the first floor, while the fourth floor accommodates a bedroom with a fluorescent lighting installation by Flavin along one side.
The restoration also included the exterior of the building, where the team replaced around 13,000 cast-iron pieces.
See more recent projects in New York City, including a stripy replica of a Frankfurt bar and a Camper store filled with ghostly white shoes.
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When Donald Judd’s New York City building in the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District opens to the public in June 2013 after a three-year restoration, visitors will experience Judd’s home and studio as originally installed by the artist. The restoration of 101 Spring Street began on June 3, 2010 (the artist’s birthday) and will conclude three years later. Donald Judd lived in the building with his family beginning in 1968, and it was his New York studio until his death in 1994.
Guided visits will be offered for small groups by appointment through an online ticketing system and by telephone. Visitors will be guided through all floors of the home, including Judd’s studio, kitchen, and his stately fifth-floor bedroom, which is installed with a floor-to-ceiling 1969 Dan Flavin fluorescent light piece, extending the length of the loft space.
Each floor will remain as installed by Donald Judd with pieces from his collection of over 500 objects, including original sculpture, paintings, drawings, prints, and furniture designed by Judd and others. Judd installed artworks by Jean Arp, Carl Andre, Larry Bell, John Chamberlain, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, Lucas Samaras, and Frank Stella throughout the building, all of which viewers will be able to explore.
Overseen by board members Flavin Judd and Rob Beyer, the restoration project shares the same goal and mission of Judd Foundation: to preserve Judd’s living and working spaces and promote a wider understanding and appreciation of Donald Judd’s legacy. The New York City design firm Architecture Research Office (ARO), led Judd Foundation’s project team of consultants, which includes a preservation architect and engineers.
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: New York designer Stephen Burks tells us how his once rough-edged city is being tamed by world-class architecture, urban design improvements like the High Line and a European-style bike-sharing scheme in the first of our reports from the Big Apple.
“I think New Yorkers all of a sudden are interested in quality of life” rather than just working and making money, says Burks, pointing to the Citi Bike scheme that launches later this month.” It’s the kind of thing you could never have had in New York 15 or 20 years ago. They would have got vandalised.”
New York is becoming more international in its outlook, Burks believes, being both more welcoming to foreign visitors and more eager to employ overseas architects. “There wasn’t an emphasis on great, international architects working in New York, but today it’s a selling point,” he says, pointing to the way that Herzog & de Meuron’s 40 Bond luxury apartment development in NoHo has triggered improvements in the area.
However New York is still a brutally capitalist city, and even elite architectural projects have to pay their way. “In New York you have to understand that everything is about the commercial context, everything is about capitalism at the end of the day, and culture here isn’t necessarily culture for culture’s sake. So a great architect is hired because it allows them to to sell on a different level, or to compete with the building across the street. There’s more of a relationship to commerce here in New York.”
Burks takes us on a tour of New York’s west side, taking in Chelsea (where his studio Readymade Projects is located) and the West Village, where he lives. In recent years the area has been transformed from a dangerous district known for its nightclubs to a sophisticated art, fashion and leisure area.
The change was spearheaded by the arrival of prestigious private art galleries such as Gagosian, David Zwirner and Gladstone, which cluster in the Meatpacking District on Chelsea’s western fringe.
More recently the High Line, a park created from a disused elevated railway that cuts through the area from north to south, has brought swarms of visitors and triggered a fresh round of regeneration.
Dezeen was in New York during NYCxDESIGN, a new annual citywide initiative linking together various design events including the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and NoHo Design District. We stayed at the Ace Hotel.
We’ll be posting more Dezeen and MINI World Tour reports from New York over the coming days.
We drove around New York in our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas, one of the crowd favourites from the set we played at new design show INTRO NY in New York last week. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
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