"My first major project was a documentation of 19th Century New York State Insane Asylums. The exhibit “Silent Voices” travelled for several years. The project was funded by The New York State Council on the Arts."- Jon Crispin Asylums. Jon Crispin also has a new Kickstarter-funded project photographing the abandoned suitcases of the patients who lived here. ...
The City of New York was originally planning to tear down the High Line, but a group formed, called ‘Friends of the High Line’, to protect, preserve, and renovate the High Line. This eventually lead to a design competition, and the commissioning of landscape architects James Corner Field Operations and architects Diller Scodifio + Renfro to rehabilitate this abandoned space ...
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"It's like architecture, but it's smaller and I can touch it and it's done in an hour – as opposed to a building which take seven years, and then it gets cancelled." By day, Joe Nocella works in a tall, 1950s building in midtown Manhattan for architecture giant HOK, creating virtual models of construction projects. By ...
25 Abandoned Soviet Monuments that look like theyre from the Future | Crack Two.