Gallery: NY's Iconic Buildings Are Even More Stunning in Unfamiliar Lands
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Anton Repponen's series “Misplaced → New York” imagines New York City's most famous buildings, cast off into farflung places. This is, of course, the Guggenheim. But it's not near Central Park; it's on a Mars-like landscape.
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Here's The Breuer building, which once housed the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and now is home to a new arm of The Met.
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The new Whitney is here, too.
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Each composite images comes with a vignette of text, written by Repponen's friend and journalist, Jon Earle. Next to Frank Gehry's IAC Building, it says, "The square-riggerish IAC Building is Frank Gehry’s only work inspired by a Monty Python song. “As a boy growing up in landlocked Albania, I always wondered: What did happen to the accountant's’ office when it sailed off the edge of the Earth in ‘Accountancy Shanty’? Was it smashed to bits? Did it disappear into a void?” Gehry mused. “I like to believe that it landed on a desolate, sandy plain, a vision I’m so glad IAC shares.”
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As a whole, it's a photography-meets-architecture fan fiction project. Here's the rectangular United Nations Headquarters nestled into a lonesome sand dune.
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The Metropolitan Opera, once firmly rooted in Lincoln Center, is now in some kind of desert. Repponen never reveals the new locations. It “would ruin the whole thing.”
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The Standard Hotel's vignette comes with a fake user review: "At first I was annoyed. I was like, “Where the EF is the standard?” I turned to Coco and literally said that out loud. Then we ordered an uber and it took us OVER 24 HOURS to get to the ACTUAL standard. (We followed these ghetto handwritten signs that said “this way to the standard” with a little arrow. Sooo tacky. Definitely lost a star there guyz!"
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The iconic Chrysler Building, lost among the clouds of a foreign land.
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Another Frank Gehry building—8 Spruce Street—in a sand dune.
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The New Museum, boat and all, seen plucked from its former home on the Bowery.
