Following on from the Red Hook Pier photos from Halloween, I am posting a few other images of New York harbor. All images are from 2019 - the first six are from late May and the last two are from early June. The air is visibly much cleaner in the first photos; the views towards... Continue Reading →
Last week's post on the NYC lampshade showed not-quite-finished work, but work that had been refined and recreated in a long process of sketching and tracing while exploring typography and legibility. I wanted to share the process tracings, to show the different aesthetic directions driven by handwriting choices. It felt freeing to draw and explore... Continue Reading →
As part of a series of maps and sketches of neighborhood names and boundaries, I have started to make lampshades to hang from pendant light fixtures. The shades are made of trace (in the example below the trace is sandwiched around simple printer paper) held in shape with an embroidery hoop on either end of... Continue Reading →
This winter the Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents their second annual winter light show Lightscape. Here are a few photos of the light installations on display:
Thomas J Campanella's tome is a skip stop tour of Brooklyn's history, focusing on the built environment but full of rich sketches of the outsized personalities inhabiting and shaping the borough. A blurb from the publisher: Spanning centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, both built and never... Continue Reading →
Salem, MA - 2016 https://vimeo.com/175783307 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdM4bB1zOT0
Last weekend I took a walk through Prospect Park and meandered to the LeFrak Center, the ice rink completed in 2014 by TWBTA. I enjoyed a tour of the grounds guided by the project manager Andy Kim as part of Open House New York back in 2018. One of the most striking elements of the... Continue Reading →
In the middle of Prospect Park lies the Terrace Bridge, supporting one of the two cross park roads which trisect the interior of the park. The 18 and 90 along the stone at either end of the arch refers to the year this steel bridge replaced a wooden one built in 1870. The NYC Parks... Continue Reading →
As part of a collaboration between David Cunningham Architecture Planning and Gans & Co, I provided research and graphics for DCAP's competition entry for the AIANY/NYC HPD Small Lots competition. New York City wanted to generate ideas for developing city owned but awkwardly laid out plots of land. Our strategy took a holistic approach to... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 