Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture is an illustrated architecture and travel guide by John Hill, focused on more than 200 contemporary buildings and public spaces built across New York City’s five boroughs since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Arranged by neighborhood, the book combines color photographs, maps, public transportation directions, addresses, architect information, and concise explanations of each project’s design and urban context. Featured sites include the High Line, 100 Eleventh Avenue, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 41 Cooper Square, One Bryant Park, and other residential, cultural, academic, commercial, and civic projects that reshaped the city’s skyline after the millennium. This guide is intended for readers interested in New York architecture, urban design, walking tours, and the relationship between buildings and city life, leaving open the question of how a city known for its past keeps rewriting its image through new construction.
Author: John Hill
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication year: 2011
Number of pages: 304
Original language: English