NYAB Events - Skyscraper Museum

Skyscraper Museum - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Skyscraper Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY WOHA rethinks cities for the age of global warming” Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2016-03-23 - 2016-09-04
In the tropical countries and islands of Southeast Asia and South Asia, nature, sun, and people are abundant. Of the world’s twenty largest megacities – metropolitan areas with a population of 10 million...More »
“Ten Tops” Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2015-02-25 - 2016-01-31
Distinctive tops that add extra height to high-rises have been characteristic of New York skyscrapers from the first tall office buildings in the 1870s. The word skyscraper, after all, evokes both aerial...More »
“Times Square, 1984: The Postmodern Moment” Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2014-06-25 - 2015-02-15
Times Square today is bright and crowded - a tourist mecca, entertainment district, retail powerhouse, and pedestrianized precinct that matches in vitality, both economic and populist, any decade of its...More »
“SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Architecture
- 2013-10-02 - 2014-06-15
SKY HIGH examines the recent proliferation of super-slim, ultra-luxury residential towers on the rise in Manhattan. These pencil-thin buildings-all 50 to 90+ stories-constitute a new type of skyscraper...More »
“The Woolworth Building @ 100” Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture
- 2013-02-27 - 2013-09-22
Eighty thousand incandescent bulbs illuminated the New York night on April 24, 1913, when the Woolworth Building opened with a ceremony attended by 800 dignitaries. Witnessed by multitudes and wired to...More »
"Urban Fabric: Building New York's Garment District" Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture
- 2012-07-25 - 2013-01-20
The largest concentration of skyscraper factories in the world, the 18 blocks that were the heart of New York's Garment District, once supported more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs and produced nearly...More »
"News Paper Spires" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Architecture
- 2012-02-29 - 2012-07-15
The first chapters in New York's high-rise history were written in the 1870s through the early 1900s when the city's great newspapers --the Times, Tribune, and World, among others-- erected tall towers...More »
"Supertall!" Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture - Other
- 2011-07-27 - 2012-01-31
SUPERTALL! is an international survey of superlative towers completed since 2001 or now under construction. This recent generation of giants, generally 100 stories or higher, represents a new paradigm...More »
"Vertical Urban Factory" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Calligraphy - Other
- 2011-01-12 - 2011-06-26
Vertical Urban Factory surveys more than 30 projects, including canonic examples of Modernism and new or recycled industrial architecture. The installation features over 200 photographs, diagrams, and...More »
”The Rise of Wall Street" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Architecture
- 2010-04-21 - 2011-01-02
THE RISE OF WALL STREET charts the architectural evolution of one of the world's most famous locales. "Wall Street" is a broad metaphor for the American center for global finance and a real place with...More »
Loretta Lorance "Becoming Buckminster Fuller"
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- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2009-07-14 - 2009-07-14
Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with a good story—that...More »
"China Prophecy" Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture
- 2009-06-24 - 2010-01-30
Future City 20 | 21 culminates in a close look at Shanghai, as a model for 21st century urbanism. Using architectural photography of recent towers, architectural drawings of existing and proposed towers...More »
Scott Johnson "TALL BUILDING: Imagining the Skyscraper"
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- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2009-06-23 - 2009-06-23
Scott Johnson is a partner of the distinguished Los Angeles architecture firm, Johnson/Fain, and is the newly appointed Director of the USC Graduate Architectural Program. A leader in the architectural...More »
"Vertical Cities: Hong Kong, New York" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Architecture - Film
- 2008-07-09 - 2009-06-20
Hong Kong and New York are the world's iconic vertical metropolises. Both island cities with perfect harbors, they evolved from colonial ports into dominant centers of international finance and commerce....More »
"New York Modern" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2007-10-24 - 2008-06-23
New York Modern is the first in a cycle of three related exhibitions, spanning a year, entitled FUTURE CITY: 20 | 21 that will juxtapose a retrospective of American visions of the skyscraper city of the...More »