Blue Sky on Canal Street
We offer four architects a fantasy job: a full block
downtown, with no client to worry about.
The odd-shaped block at Canal and Varick Streets is, in some ways, an architect’s dream.
The owner, Trinity Real Estate, cleared the site earlier this year, and says it’ll be used as a sculpture park until plans firm up.
New York asked four architects to come up with ideas for the plot
The Locavore Fantasia
WORK AC
an apartment building topped with a working farm
“We thought we’d bring the farm back to the city and stretch it vertically,” says Work AC co-principal Dan Wood.
The Site-Specific Sculpture
AT ARCHITECTS
Spanish architect and urban planner Ana Maria Torres and her team opted for a landmark meant to evoke the site’s temporary life
The Realistic Proposal
KARL FISCHER ARCHITECTURE
pedestrians a reprieve from the traffic of Canal
The Subsidized Solution
FLANK
a concept that inventively addresses the acute shortage of apartments for middle-income Manhattanites
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