Home Delivery outside of MoMA (digital)

The MoMA exhibition Home Delivery, Fabricating the Modern Dwelling continues outside on the asphalt vacant lot next door. This lot is the site of a proposed 75 floor tower designed by Jean Nouvel which the local community board rejected as out-of-scale with the neighborhood. The neighborhood being Midtown Manhattan, the greatest concentration of super tall buildings on the planet.

Home Delivery outside of MoMA (digital)

The collection of buildings plopped down temporarily next to MoMA is decidedly under scale for the neighborhood, ranging from a 76 square foot living cube to a mini skyscraper that required some exertion to reach the upper terrace. (Nothing for me with my sixth floor walk-up office in lower Manhattan.) The view of these odd little structures in the midst of New York’s skyscrapers is, well, endearing. But I can’t imagine the community board going for these either.