Using digital editing, designer Anton Repponen places Manhattan buildings in desolate landscapes, ‘inviting viewers to see them as if for the first time’
United Nations headquarters
For the series Misplaced New York, designer Anton Repponen uprooted the steel spires and modernist palaces of ManhattanAll images: Anton Repponen
Chrysler Building
‘Concrete behemoths and steel-and-glass towers rise from sand dunes and rocky cliffs, inviting viewers to see them as if for the first time,’ the project states
The Standard, High Line
By placing these buildings in the wild, ‘out of context, architectural forms become more pronounced’
The New Museum
Each image is paired with a short story by Jon Earle, which you can read on the Misplaced website. Repponen calls each story ‘a flight of fancy that enhances the overall sense of absurdity, mystery, and humour. They are like scenes from a movie never made, fitting companions to images that could never actually be’
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
Take the Guggenheim: ‘Guggenheim museums,’ writes Earle, ‘began sprouting across the globe, from the Basque Country to faraway Dubai, until there was nowhere else for them to grow. The board of directors sent agents to scour the earth for primitive lands that knew nothing of modern and contemporary art. At last word arrived of such a place. A check was written, migrant workers hired and a museum rose from the volcanic mudflats of X. Ticket sales have been sluggish’
IAC Building
‘The square-riggerish IAC Building is Frank Gehry’s only work inspired by a Monty Python song, according to Earle’s text. ‘As a boy growing up in landlocked Albania, I always wondered: What did happen to the accountant’s’ office when it sailed off the edge of the earth in Accountancy Shanty? Was it smashed to bits? Did it disappear into a void?” Gehry mused. “I like to believe that it landed on a desolate, sandy plain, a vision I’m so glad IAC shares.” Gehry is currently working on an architectural adaptation of that scene in The Meaning of Life when the fat man explodes’
Cooper Union
‘When designing experiences,’ he says, ‘I imagine a physical building where everything makes perfect sense and where some people will spend their lives’
Breuer Building
For another project, he replaced the iPhone operating system with one that resembles Apple computer interfaces from the 1980s
8 Spruce Street/New York By Gehry
Repponen has designed everything from skateboards and milk bottles to concepts for Estonia’s Olympic uniforms
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