Main entry:
Goldin, Greg, author.
Title & Author:
Never built New York / Greg Goldin, Sam Lubell ; foreword by Daniel Libeskind.
Publication:
New York, NY : Metropolis Books, [2016]
©2016
Description:
407 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 23 x 30 cm
Notes:
Projects : Citywide : Commissioners' plan, parks / Commissioners for Laying Out Streets and Roads in the City of New York -- Remodeled New York / James E. Serrell -- Arcade under-ground railway / Egbert Ludovicus Viele -- Beach pneumatic railway / Alfred Ely Beach -- Gilbert's elevated railway / Rufus Henry Gilbert -- North River Bridge / Gustav Lindenthal -- Diagonal plan / Charles Rollinson Lamb : Union Square Park diagonals / Julius F. Harder ; Fifth-and-One-Half Avenue / William J. Gaynor ; Midtown diagonal / Wilber C. Goodale -- New railway system / William J. Wilgus -- City of New Manhattan / T. Kannard Thomson : Harlem River Canal / Simon Stevens ; Plan to drain the East River / John A. Harris ; Filling in the Hudson / Norman Sper -- Transit construction commission subway plan / Daniel Lawrence Turner -- Narrows Tunnel / Mayor John F. Hylan -- Skyscraper bridges / Raymond Hood ; Waterfront boulevards, regional plan of New York and its environs / Francis S. Swales -- George Washington Bridge / Cass Gilbert -- Brooklyn-Battery Bridge / Robert Moses and Othmar Ammann -- Rooftop airport / William Zeckendorf : Rotary Airport / Norman Bel Geddes ; Mid-town Airport / Raymond Loewy -- Dome over Manhattan / R. Buckminster Fuller -- Westway Highway project / Venturi, Scott Brown with Clarke and Rapuano : East River Park / Venturi and Rauch -- MTVA Television Tower / Kohn Pedersen Fox -- Governors Island gondola / Santiago Calatrava -- Downtown Manhattan : Washington Monument / Calvin Pollard -- St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie residential towers / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Fifth Avenue extension / Robert Moses -- Battery Park apartments / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Key project for Ellis Island / Frank Lloyd Wright : Ellis Island National Immigration Museum, Park and Monument / Philip Johnson -- World Trade Center : East River / Gordon Bunshaft, Wallace K. Harrison. and Edward Durell Stone ; Master plan and memorial competition / various ; Gardens of the World / Daniel Libeskind -- Galleria, New York University / Philip Johnson -- Battery Park City / Conklin and Rossant and Harrison and Abramovitz -- Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs / Louis Kahn -- Graphic Arts Center / Paul Rudolph -- City corridor / Paul Rudolph -- Habitat New York / Moshe Safdie -- Federal Reserve Bank / Roche-Dinkeloo -- Bridge of houses / Steven Holl -- Whitehall Ferry Terminal / Venturi, Scott Brown -- Guggenheim Museum Lower Manhattan / Frank Gehry -- 80 South Street / Santiago Calatrava -- New York Tower at One Madison Avenue / Daniel Libeskind -- 23 East 22nd Street / Office of Metropolitan Architecture -- Midtown Manhattan : Grand Center Terminal : Grand Central Terminal / McKim, Mead and White, Reed and Stem, Warren and Wetmore ; Hyperboloid / I.M. Pei ; 175 Park Avenue / Marcel Breuer -- Reinhardt Theatre / Joseph Urban -- Metropolitan Life North Annex / Harvey Wiley Corbett -- Convocation Tower / Bertram Goodhue : Broadway Temple / Donn Barber -- The Museum of Modern Art / Howe and Lescaze -- Mid-Manhattan Expressway / Robert Moses -- Dowling Theater / Ely Jacques Kahn -- X-City / Wallace K. Harrison -- United Nations : United Nations Flushing Meadows / Wallace K. Harrison, Aymar Embury II, Louis Skidmore, W. Earl Andrews and others ; Preliminary Manhattan UN plans / Wallace K. Harrison, Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and others ; UN/Midtown connector / William Zeckendorf, Wallace K. Harrison -- Columbus Circle shopping center / Matthew Nowicki : Redevelopment of Columbus Circle / Edward Durell Stone -- Helix / I.M. Pei -- Pennsylvania Station : Palace of Progress, Communications City / Pereira and Luckman ; New York Sports and Entertainment Center / Charles Luckman ; Madison Square Garden redevelopment / Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Frank Gehry; Richard Meier and Thomas Phifer ; Penn Station plan, 1993 / Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum ; Penn Station plan, 1999 / Skidmore, Owings and Merrill ; New Penn Station / Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum -- Madison Avenue Mall / Office of Midtown Planning and Development and Van Ginkel Associates -- Times Square redevelopment / Johnson/Burgee -- Columbus Center / Moshe Safdie -- 42nd Street development project / Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates -- 42nd Street Hotel / Zaha Hadid -- High Line Hybrid Tower / Steven Holl --
Uptown Manhattan : Central Park : Jones' Wood Park / various ; Central Park competition plans / John Rink, Roswell, Graves, Egbert Ludovicus Viele, and others ; Central Park gates / Richard Morris Hunt ; Central Park strip / Ernest Flagg -- New York Historical Society / Richard Morris Hunt : Expansion, 1984 / Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer ; Expansion, 2006 / Richard Meier -- Blackwell's Island as a civic center / Thomas J. George -- Yeshiva College / Joseph Tabatchnik, Charles B. Meyers and Henry B. Herts -- Metropolitan Opera House : Metropolitan Opera House / Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban ; Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle / Benjamin Wistar Morris ; Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Opera House / William K. Harrison -- Porte Nouveau, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Robert B. O'Connor and Aymar Embury II : American Museum of Natural History exterior renovation / Aymar Embury II and Eliel Saarinen -- Adele Levy Memorial Playground, Riverside Park / Isamu Noguchi and Louis Kahn -- Welfare Island / Victor Gruen -- ABC Headquarters / Bertrand Goldberg; Pereira and Associates -- Leapfrog City / John Johansen -- Columbia University master plan / Pei Cobb Freed -- Whitney Museum of American Art expansion, 1985 / Michael Graves ; Expansion 2000, 2004 / Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Renzo Piano -- The Bronx & Queens : New sports pavilion, Belmont Park Raceway / Frank Lloyd Wright -- John F. Kennedy Educational Civic and Cultural Center / Welton Becket -- Rheingold Pavilion, World's Fair / Kahn and Jacobs -- Sports Park and Corona-Flushing Meadows Park / Marcel Breuer, Kenzo Tange, and Lawrence Halprin -- Plan for New York City: Bronx Linear City, Morrisania -- New York Botanical Garden, Plants and Man Building / Edward Larrabee Barnes -- John F. Kennedy International Airport / Pei Cobb Freed : Idlewild Airport / Delano and Aldrich ; Idlewild Union Air Terminal / Philip Johnson -- Queens Museum expansion / Eric Owen Moss -- Olympic Village / Morphosis -- Flushing Stadium / SHoP -- Brooklyn & Staten Island : Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences / McKim, Mead and White : Brooklyn Museum expansion / Arata Isozaki and James Stewart Polshek -- Coney Island Globe / Samuel Friede -- National American Indian Memorial / Thomas Hastings and Daniel Chester French -- Marine Park / Charles Downing Lay -- Dodger Dome / Norman Bel Geddes and R. Buckminster Fuller -- Brooklyn Linear City / McMillan, Griffis and Mileto -- Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences / Peter Eisenman -- Atlantic Yards / Frank Gehry -- Stapleton Homeport / Diller Scofidio + Renfro -- Coney Center / Grimshaw Architects.
Projects include: Calvin Pollard, Washington Monument (1843) -- Egbert Ludovicus Viele, Arcade under-Ground Railway (1866) -- Rufus Henry Gilbert, Gilbert's Elevated Railway (1878) -- Grand Central Terminal (1903-1968) -- Charles Rollinson Lamb, Diagonal Plan (1904) -- Raymond Hood, Skyscraper Bridges (1925) -- Frank Lloyd Wright, St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (1927) -- Benjamin Wistar Morris, Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle (1929) -- Robert Moses, Mid-Manhattan Expressway (1941) -- Ely Jacques Kahn, Dowling Theater (1945) -- Wallace K. Harrison, X-City (1946) -- United Nations (1946-1948) -- Wallace K. Harrison, Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Opera House (1955) -- Robert Moses, Fifth Avenue Extension (1955) -- Pennsylvania Station (1955-2005) -- Frank Lloyd Wright, New Sports Pavilion, Belmont Park Raceway (1956) -- Frank Lloyd Wright, Key Project for Ellis Island (1959) -- Victor Gruen, Welfare Island (1961) -- World Trade Center (1961-2002) -- Kahn & Jacobs, Rheingold Pavilion, World's Fair (1964) -- Conklin & Rossant and Harrison & Abramovitz, Battery Park City (1966) -- Paul Rudolph, City Corridor (1967) -- John Johansen, Leapfrog City (1968) -- Office of Midtown Planning and Development and Van Ginkel Associates, Madison Avenue Mall (1971) -- Venturi, Scott Brown with Clarke and Rapuano, Westway Highway Project (1984) -- Steven Holl, Bridge of Houses (1980) -- Frank Gehry, Atlantic Yards (2003).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-405) and index.
The paradox of the unbuilt / Daniel Libeskind -- Driving to empire / Greg Goldin, Sam Lubell -- Citywide -- Downtown Manhattan -- Midtown Manhattan -- Uptown Manhattan -- The Bronx and Queens -- Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Summary:
New York towers among world capitals, but they city we know might have never reached even more stellar heights, or burrowed into more destructive depths, had the ideas pictured in the minds of its greatest dreamers progressed beyond the drawing board and taken form in stone, steel, and glass. What is wonderfully elegant and grand might easily have been ingloriously grandiose; what is blandly remarkable might have been delightfully provocative or humanely inspiring. Nearly 200 ambitious projects spanning 200 years encompass bridges, skyscrapers, mass-transit plans, parks, streets and highways, amusements, airports, schemes to fill in rivers and extend Manhattan, and much, much more. Included are unrealized visions for such landmarks as Central Park, Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center site, and many other locales in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. From the authors of Never Built Los Angeles, this hidden history--brimming with fact-filled and entertaining texts, as well as hundreds of sketches, renderings, prints, and models drawn from archives across the country--takes us on a thrilling journey through an alternative New York.
ISBN:
9781938922756 (hardback)
1938922751 (hardback)
Subject:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Unbuilt architectural projects New York (State) New York.
Projets d'architecture non réalisés New York (État) New York.
Unbuilt architectural projects New York (State)
Buildings.
Unbuilt architectural projects.
Architekturzeichnung.
Stadtgestaltung.
Unbuilt architectural projects New York.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures.
New York, NY.
New York (State) New York.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. Designs and plans.
Added entries:
Lubell, Sam, author.
Libeskind, Daniel, 1946- writer of foreword.
Lubell, Sam author.
Holdings:
Location: Library main m 293471
Call No.: BIB 238451
Status: Available
