Building Fashion is a series of installations that celebrate the intersection of fashion and architecture located underneath the High Line on the site of Neil M. Denari Architects’ HL23 in the Chelsea Arts District. Building Fashion is comprised of six competitions with the first installation opening to the public on September 9, 2010 and consecutive installations running through November 15, 2010.
Our contribution to Housing Work’s ‘Design on a Dime’ is designing and donating furniture and art for one of the fifty interior vignettes for this year’s fundraiser. We are happy to be presenting the work of six artists and designers collaborating to create one of a kind pieces to furnish the room; Jessica Angel, Faris Al-Shathir, Andrew Schles, and Gregory Sparks, with contributions by Jen Poueymirou and Arden Wohl. The designers are creating a dining room inspired by 17th century Flemish masters Vermeer and De Hooch with all the furniture made from shipping palettes and found materials; which exemplifies the concept of design on a dime. The goal is to use less than 15 percent of new materials in fabrication of these pieces while maintaining a cohesive collection of furnishings. The finishes are non-toxic and eco-friendly. The collection will include a dining table, six dining chairs, a side board table, a chandelier, three murals, fruit bowl, and a little roundie table.
We are excited to contribute to such an honorable cause as well as the Housing Works organization that supports artistic and creative new talents.
“If the goal of designing the urban surface is to increase its capacity to support and diversify activities in time – even activities that cannot be determined in advance – then a primary design strategy is to extend its continuity while diversifying its range of services.” – Alex Wall
Manhattan County with a population density of 70,595 people per square mile is one of the densest cities on earth. The city system overlaps transit, open spaces, commercial and residential, and the public and private. The joined experience of temporal and historic landscapes is vital to the vibrant evolving urban environment. At the same time, the need for spaces of rest and reflection are paramount to the well being of Manhattanites. They serve not only for personal use, but as locations for community, business, and healthy urban growth. Interventions of temporal instigative spaces bridging these systems can strengthen and create opportunities for urban development.
Moments of urban decay within densely populated neighborhoods such as vacant underutilized lots and spaces in transition are part of a cycle of urban renewal that sustains the vivacity of the city. Many of these lots stay vacant for years, creating pockets of crime and filth which negatively impact local residents and business owners. The Instigative landscape project will spark a constructive urban ecology that supplements existing productive systems by appropriating these lots and developing public installations.
The instigative landscape project will comprise of a three-part competition that evolves from conceptualization to realization of systemically appropriate interventions. We will begin with a single site that will grow into a network of summer parks which promote community, economic, and environmental revitalization and growth. The competition will give artists, architects, landscape architects, or designers the platform to enact their vision as well as an urban community and landscape development.
Revolutionizing architecture online.
Performances curated by David B. Smith. Collaborations and partnerships in sound, video, and conceptual performances engaging David Smith’s architectural installation as screening room, theater, art gallery, and social space.
Objective Affection
Sep 18 – Oct 30, 2009
Mondays – Closed
Tuesdays & Wednesdays – By Appointment (email info@boffo-ny.org)
Thursday thru Sunday – 11am – 7pm
Sunday August 23, 2009
3pm – Sunset
Beer, Babes, Boys, and Beach Balls
Bring your friends and their friends.
Waste Exhibition.PENNdesign. May 2009 These are just a few shots from the exhibition, mostly of the signage and advertising we did.
Some locations are hard to come by, others are almost impossible. Our wonderful friends at RAL Companies and Affiliates have generously donated our temporary office and exhibition space for Objective Affection. One Brooklyn Bridge Park is located on the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights. With views of Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge, Governors Island, and The Statue of Liberty, it seems almost unreal here. Our offices are located on the ground floor overlooking the redevelopment of the Brooklyn waterfront and the Manhattan Skyline. The exhibition space is located on the second floor with large skylights allowing amazing indirect natural light, an open floor plan, and floor to ceiling heights of over 25ft in some places.
