Glen Oaks Branch Library Featured in Architectural League Exhibition

may 8, 2010

The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010

An exhibition about architecture, planning, and development in New York since 2001
On view at 250 Hudson Street (Entrance on Dominick Street) in Hudson Square

May 8–June 26, 2010
Exhibition hours: Wednesday-Sunday, Noon-7 pm
Free admission

The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010 is the sixth in an ongoing series of Architectural League exhibitions about contemporary architecture in New York City.  This installment takes as its subject the design, planning, and building of New York in the first decade of the twenty-first century.  Beginning in 2001, an array of powerful forces converged to dramatically transform large portions of the city.  The events of September 11, the policies and priorities of the Bloomberg Administration, the volatile ups and downs of the global and local economies, advances in material and construction technologies, and a new interest among the public in leading edge architecture all combined to reshape New York in ways that we may not fully grasp for decades to come.

The City We Imagined/The City We Made documents this recent chapter in the city’s history, providing an overview of the most notable projects and proposals, plans and initiatives, so that New Yorkers can begin to shape an overall understanding of the decade and consider what the cumulative impact of this era of planning and building might be.

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