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 →
[From the summer] - At Lafayette and 1st St sits a wedge shaped building similar to the Flatiron. This building, without the patronage and protection afforded the Flatiron, has has additions and subtractions and a few billboards stapled on, but the result is this bow-like extension, pointing north and culminating in, somewhere inside at the... Continue Reading →
Part of no longer being in school means I have time to read all sorts of things that I skipped while in school. I recently read most of Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture (Towards an Architecture, or Towards a New Architecture), and am trying to finish Atlas of Novel Tectonics and Complexity and Contradiction in... Continue Reading →
With December here I hope to end the year the way I started, resurrecting this daily blog as a means of looking back on past work, reflecting on readings and essays, and presenting new drawings. Today is a look back on a series of meditation spaces, designed with bamboo in mind (however most of the... Continue Reading →
Various sketches of meditation huts designed out of bamboo
The 200' by 600' grid of Manhattan is broken and carved up by a few avenues, with this building here on 6th Ave in Soho. The street grid is a bit skewed, resulting in an acute angle at the intersection. If you look closely, behind the giant billboard, you can see the brick courses meeting... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 