Name: Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture By John Hill
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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture Summary

Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture by John Hill

The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new-and architecturally cutting-edge-residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the boom now waning, this guidebook is perfectly timed to take stock of the city's new skyline and map them all out, literally.

This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York's five boroughs since the new millennium-The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children's Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Park Visitors Center, by Toshiko Mori Architect; and One Bryant Park, by Cook + Fox, to name just a few. Projects are grouped by neighborhood, allowing for easy, self-guided tours, with photos, maps, directions, and descriptions that highlight the most important aspects of each entry.

Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture Reviews

[I]ndispensable . . . What makes the guide a joy to use is the clarity of the layout, in which buildings are grouped in 22 districts and indicated on useful maps that also include subway stops. . . . [A] valuable public service to architects and aficionados. -- FORM
Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture is more than a guide. It is a creative time capsule that captures the re-envisioning of New York City, boroughs and all. -- Oculus
Designers, engineers-anyone who dreams in vertical structures of glass and steel, really-will nod approvingly. -- Time Out New York
Hill has begun to emerge, in the past five years or so, as one of New York's great architectural communicators, an exquisitely informed tour guide for the layman design enthusiast.... Hill's contemporary-focused volume occupies a niche that's gone unfilled for several years.... This group portrait of the city maps out not just where the new buildings are, but how they spell out a contemporary language for the urban environment, creating a composite image of 21st-century New York that is by turns familiar and challenging. -- Capital New York
Beautifully illustrated; great graphics.... Provides an impressive sense of how much has been built in New York in recent years. -- Justin Davidson, Designers & Books
Finally architectural enthusiasts have a guidebook to the past 10 years of NYC's architectural building boom and bust. Handy and informative. -- Architizer.com
[T]he only guidebook devoted exclusively to recent design in the city.... [F]eels both inclusive and curated, inviting its users to investigate a range of new works making their mark on the cityscape. -- The Architect's Newspaper
[A] recommendation for arts and New York City culture collections alike. . . . Any architecture enthusiast, whether native New Yorker or visitor, will find this key to locating and appreciating some of New York City's finest. -- Midwest Book Review

About John Hill

John Hill, a registered architect, operates a weekly Web page and blog, archidose.org, devoted to contemporary architecture; he also documents his passion for archi-tourism at architourist.pbworks.com. The U.S. representative and editor for World-Architects.com, he has published articles in Architect Magazine, The Architect's Newspaper, and eVolo, and was a contributing editor to the Chicago-based art/architecture magazine TENbyTEN.

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GOR012394286

ISBN 13

9780393733266

ISBN 10

0393733262

Title

Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture by John Hill

Author

John Hill

Condition

Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

20111223

Number of pages

304

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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture John Hill

Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture by John Hill

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