Tag: architecture stuff

borgevino:

kateoplis:

“There are two Manhattans. One is a city of tall buildings; the other is a city of no buildings. This city begins where the architecture leaves off. It’s a city cast in the die of Manhattan, a perfect complement to the built city, a kind of anti-Manhattan. This parallel city has an architecture all its own. It is the architecture of air, the space defined by the edges of everything else, its map redrawn by pigeons and pedestrians, barricades and scaffolding, cranes, trucks, taxis. It’s the city we assume but cannot name. In this city, the buildings are made of sky. It’s the Manhattan that isn’t – without which there could be no Manhattan.” (x)

“Between the buildings of a city, another city. It’s the invisible city, the one no one built. In this city, the buildings are made not of brick or steel, but of sky.” — peter wegner

nybg:

archatlas:

Bosco Verticale Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra)

Italian architect Stefano Boeri designed this high-rise apartment buildings using trees and vegetation for its façade. ‘Bosco Verticale’ uses this design structure in two towers in Milan, Italy,  which house 900 mature trees.

Most New Yorkers dream of having a terrace garden, but what would living in a high-rise be like with full trees such as these? ~LM