honorable mention
Patricio Gomez chile
title
Overflowing Architecture in NY
Certainly, being an iconic Metropolis allows urban planners and architects to unleash their creativity. At the end of the day, there seems to be complete certainty that each "square foot" will always have someone willing to occupy it.
Being a city that began in the 17th century, its neighborhoods have surely been (and are) in constant remodeling. A recent phenomenon of this remodeling is the so-called "Gentrification" of neighborhoods, understood as the transformation of a deteriorated or declining urban space, through relatively expensive reconstruction or rehabilitation, which pushes the current inhabitants towards the periphery, causing this "new” space to end up being occupied by people with greater economic capacity.
Beyond the value level judgments that each one may have about this process, the gentrification of NY has generated very innovative architectures, which cannot be ignored when capturing the environment, especially in the sector of the so-called Highline, an old elevated railway, originally used to deliver cargo from the docks to shops and which is now a pedestrian walkway, starting from the Hudson Yards.
All the work that is exhibited from NY is in Black and White. In my opinion, there are so many geometries that, combining them with colors, would generate an excessively exuberant visual load.
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entry description
I must admit that the island of Manhattan, in New York, where this series is centered, is a surprising place. Not only because it is the iconic center of a Western culture marked by consumerism, but because one can perceive a way of “being city” that manages not to lose the human scale, despite all the skyscrapers, hundreds of streets and two dozen subway lines that make it up.Certainly, being an iconic Metropolis allows urban planners and architects to unleash their creativity. At the end of the day, there seems to be complete certainty that each "square foot" will always have someone willing to occupy it.
Being a city that began in the 17th century, its neighborhoods have surely been (and are) in constant remodeling. A recent phenomenon of this remodeling is the so-called "Gentrification" of neighborhoods, understood as the transformation of a deteriorated or declining urban space, through relatively expensive reconstruction or rehabilitation, which pushes the current inhabitants towards the periphery, causing this "new” space to end up being occupied by people with greater economic capacity.
Beyond the value level judgments that each one may have about this process, the gentrification of NY has generated very innovative architectures, which cannot be ignored when capturing the environment, especially in the sector of the so-called Highline, an old elevated railway, originally used to deliver cargo from the docks to shops and which is now a pedestrian walkway, starting from the Hudson Yards.
All the work that is exhibited from NY is in Black and White. In my opinion, there are so many geometries that, combining them with colors, would generate an excessively exuberant visual load.
about the photographer
Fine Art and architecture photographer based in Santiago, Chile. Trained as a civil engineer, photography has become an artistic way of expressing my vision of the world.back to gallery