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West 8th Street Subway New York, Architecture, Images, Architect, Info, Project
West 8th Street Subway Building : Information
Manhattan Development : Acconci Studio
Location: Manhattan, USA
Architects: Acconci Studio
FAÇADE FOR WEST 8TH STREET SUBWAY STATION
The architect started a wave; we came in later and tried to make a
wave, break a wave.

Like a rise and fall of sand, like an ocean wave: use the wave, then,
to make a view the force of a wave the wave forces a
view.
Not a picture of a wave, not a wave in two dimensions. A wave in all
directions. The façade itself should be a wave, like a wave
in the ocean, like a wave of sand.

The façade waves out, bulges out, to enclose the stairway up
to the station.
A ramp to the station: the façade waves up and down, it waves
out, it breaks to make an entrance.

As the façade waves up and down, it waves in and out. The façade
on one level waves in between the waves of the other level.
The façade breathes in on one level, it waves onto the other
level, where it breathes out.
Where on façade breathes, the other breathes out.

As the façade bulges in or out, it reaches a breaking point,
it opens to make a view.

It bulges in or out just far enough in to make a seat.
West 8th Street Subway New York - images / text from Acconci Studio
May 2008
West 8th Street Subway Interior : Acconci Studio
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