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Atlas New York is located one block from New York City’s fashion epicenter, Bryant Park. The new construction is a mixed-use apartment and office building designed for young fashion-conscious New Yorkers. The project involved interventions on the exterior facade at street level, the lobbies, elevators, internal circulation experiences, the lounge and the gym. The project explores dialogues among art, artifact, and architecture. The methodology is intended to accentuate the transparent and translucent material "skins" employed, both literally and conceptually, and it underlines the theater-like voyeurism characteristic of the relationship between street life and life inside New York’s buildings. Photography, paintings, and paint are regarded as "construction materials" for the spaces of both the main and the secondary lobbies. "Frames" and framed views alternatively come to the fore and recede relative to the physical walls, their color, and architect-generated paintings.
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