our client was obsessed with everything "parisian" at the time. this was our 2nd project with her, after having just finished her loft in tribeca. she was happy to give the board whatever they wanted so that we could build on the lot.
the bryant park board pres. was most concerned with it sounding like a cool idea but looking like everything else in the park. he decides to throw down a word picture of "an alpine hut"..."enshrouded in vines". i dunno which fuckin' mountain range in the world he had in mind where this would ever actually occur naturally, but i love how it's proposed as a familiar thing...
the times didn't know what to make of it, opting to just describe a few of it's banal architectural features: "...crisp awning, oversize windows, and a flared cornice" meets print.
a few of the drawings submitted to BPC in april '05
from the outset, the bryant park corp. made their demands for aesthetic contextualism through the mouth piece of their parchitect, hugh hardy of hardy holtzman pfifer. these watered down renderings were the last attempts to reference architectures outside of hardy's park structures.
the facade treatments of gunnar asplund and the market storefront used in "amelie" were the only remaining points of reference for us by the time we reached an approvable design...
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