An open-air architectural history lesson. TO Manhattan, the construction fever has lasted for over 150 years, over the years reshaping the world’s most famous skyline. The New York Museum of Skyscraper proposes to study this famous skyline at different times to better understand how and why it evolves.
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Named, as it should be, “Skyline” the exhibition “distinguishes five periods during which new buildings emerge and take characteristic forms responding to economic, technological and regulatory factors”, underlines a press release from the museum. The exhibition traces the global history of the rise of Manhattan’s skyscrapers from small to large to much larger. Cycles of expansion and recession have forged the ultra-dense areas of Downtown and Midtown before today energizing new sectors, such as Hudson Yards and new types of buildings such as super-thin towers. ”
Born in the late 1800s
Visitors will be able to discover a series of giant photos 3 meters high, showing more than a century of panoramic shots immortalized from the same place and from the same angle. An adventure that began in the late 1800s when the first skyscrapers appeared near City Hall Park and continued until the last ultra-modern glass towers that appeared near Central Park. The exhibition continues until January 2019, but for those who cannot make the trip, these “flip-flop” photos are worth a look. You just have to move the different curtains to see the towers appear or disappear over the years.
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