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About Never Built New York
Review It’s hard to think of city that has been the object of such intense dreams and desires for architects―and yet so elusive and hard to get―as New York. The building concepts in this book are imaginative, opinionated attempts to compete for New York's attention and shape its future, knowing that a mark left on this city will be forever felt around the world. -- Paola Antonelli ― Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, and Director, Research & Development,The Museum of Modern ArtBy any standard, this is a fascinating scholarly tour de force, ultimately paralleling in its brilliant ambition the infinite spectrum of its subject matter. -- Kenneth Frampton ― Ware Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia UniversityNever Built New York encompasses a record of renderings, images, models, and plans... offering an opportunity to reevaluate the present in terms of the possible. -- Alexandre De Looz ― Bomb MagazineCompiling nearly 200 plans that came to naught, Never Built New York (Metropolis Books) imagines an alternative city of fairy-castle skyscrapers, pneumatic tubes, man-made islands, and river-spanning jetports. ― Elle Decor[New York] appears as a tumultuous construction site where radical creative enclaves, quixotic engineering proposals in the name of efficiency, and proud civic-engagement movements compete for disparate visions of a city that always could (or could never) have been. ― Metropolis Magazine...an intoxicating look at the designs for New York that, either through bureaucracy, budget or bad luck, never came to pass... -- Anika Burgess ― Atlas Obscura...the city’s most intriguing and unrealized architectural and design projects. -- Darryn King ― Wall Street JournalThe book shows architects as idealistic, yet often unrealistic dreamers; the Skyscraper Bridges of Raymond Hood emerge eerily from their pencil sketches and R Buckminster Fuller’s glass dome over Manhattan, half a mile in diameter, looks positively futuristic… an inverse history of a city that never was. -- Harriet Thorpe ― Wallpaper...an impact on designers and architects for years to come. -- Erika Owen ― Travel + Leisure...projects from the last two centuries, sited all throughout the five boroughs, that range from the monumental to the mortifying...aborted reflections of their time, place and politics. -- Amelia Taylor-Hochberg ― ArchinectA wonderful funland and/or twisted hellscape...some of the most outrageous architectural and urban planning ideas from more than 150 years of New York City history. -- Raphael Pope-Sussman ― The GothamistImaginative… a catalog of dashed dreams. -- Sam Roberts ― The New York Timesrevelatory -- Martin Filler ― The New York Review of BooksRetro and futuristic, Never Built New York is perfect for dreamers, conceptual-design lovers, and those with an inclination towards paradoxical “what ifs?” An architectural and philosophical tour-de-force. -- Amber C. Snider ― The Culture Trip, Editors' Top Pick 2016a unique look at New York through various historical eras, such as the Gilded Age and the mid-20th century. And yet the concepts covered in Never Built New York don’t seem entirely unfamiliar. Indeed, they reveal a concern for the environment and a preoccupation with space that are still on the minds of New York City residents today. -- Katie Hiler ― Science Fridaythe impression one gets from flipping through Never Built New York is one of visionary ambition for a city that’s often remained architecturally conservative, partly due to space limitations and partly because of bureaucratic city planning. -- Allison Meier ― HyperallergicJust as compelling as the extraordinary collections of drawings is the vivid language the authors use to tell the projects’ stories. Goldin and Lubell, whose editorial tone ranges from sarcastic to critical, introduce the reader to the people behind these visionary projects, giving us glimpses of their dreams and obsessions. -- Gugliel
