Friday, October 16, 2009
Art
Collectible Souvenirs from Pre-Recession 2007
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM
As we know all too well from the semi-permanent
construction sites and
sidewalk sheds all over the city, the delirious visions of many greedy developers have been abandoned in the last two two years, but that doesn't mean that the ridiculous architecture they enabled is completely lost. The designers at
Boym Partners Inc. have created a series of five architectural miniatures dubbed
Souvenirs of the Recession (pictured), which portray five of the crazier buildings that were planned but never created during the recent real estate boom—Dubai's
Burj Al Alam, London's
Cheesegrater, Moscow's
Russia Tower, Tribeca's
56 Leonard and Korea's
Busan Lotte Tower. For $84 you can own what would have been billion-dollar architectural luxury goods. (
Curbed)
Tags: nyc architecture, Dubai, Russia Tower, greedy developers, imaginary architecture, recession, building boom, collectibles
