The Skyscraper Museum

Skyscrapers don't particularly interest me, since I'm not a huge fan of engineering or heights, for that matter. However, the current exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City--New York Modern: Future City: 20/21 looks fascinating. It focuses on history and old timey time engineers' visions of NYC's future. That is cool.



Check out Moses King's "Dream of New York" from 1911-1912. The tall building with the clock tower is the old Singer building on Broadway between Liberty and Cortlandt Street (razed in early 1960's) and the sight of present day 1 Liberty Plaza where I go to work everyday. Mr. King's vision is a little off. Though I wish we did have crazy-ass zeppelins flying by the windows all day. Exciting!



And William R. Leigh's "Great City of the Future," from Cosmopolitan, November,1908 paints another wild design. I'm no engineer, but those masonry high-rises appear to be structurally impossible. And imposing! But how about that amazing web of bridges connecting all the shiznit?

FUTURE CITY: 20/21

New York Modern

October 2007-April 2008

The Skyscraper Museum.

See you there.