2004-04-12 11:30:14
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Skyscraper Museum Opens in Lower Manhattan
After years of borrowing space, the Skyscraper Museum - dedicated to exploring the history and the future of the tall building - finally opened its own facility today.
Located inside the same building as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the southern tip of Manhattan, the one-story space, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, looks much taller, thanks to mirrored stainless steel ceilings and floors. The reflective spaces are designed, notes SOM partner Roger Duffy (who collaborated with artist James Turrell), to look like "you`re above a city street, 40 stories up."
Moving through the museum, one first approaches drawings, articles, materials and photos of some of the earliest skyscrapers, like the Woolworth Building, the Washington Life Building, and the Singer Building, all built at the beginning of the 20th century. Next come textured presentations of skyscrapers` recent past, like the Sears Tower in Chicago and, of course, the World Trade Center in New York. Finally arrives at large boards presenting recent and future height behemoths like the current height champion, the Petronas Towers, the Conde Nast Building in New York, the upcoming Taipei 101 in Taiwan, Jin Mao Building and Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai, and Hearst Tower in New York.
After years of borrowing space, the Skyscraper Museum - dedicated to exploring the history and the future of the tall building - finally opened its own facility today.
Located inside the same building as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the southern tip of Manhattan, the one-story space, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, looks much taller, thanks to mirrored stainless steel ceilings and floors. The reflective spaces are designed, notes SOM partner Roger Duffy (who collaborated with artist James Turrell), to look like "you`re above a city street, 40 stories up."
Moving through the museum, one first approaches drawings, articles, materials and photos of some of the earliest skyscrapers, like the Woolworth Building, the Washington Life Building, and the Singer Building, all built at the beginning of the 20th century. Next come textured presentations of skyscrapers` recent past, like the Sears Tower in Chicago and, of course, the World Trade Center in New York. Finally arrives at large boards presenting recent and future height behemoths like the current height champion, the Petronas Towers, the Conde Nast Building in New York, the upcoming Taipei 101 in Taiwan, Jin Mao Building and Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai, and Hearst Tower in New York.
