Times Square Tower Project, New York, NY (Exterior perspective)
Raimund Abraham
American, born Austria. 1933–2010
1984
A collaged architectural perspective in which Raimund Abraham imagines a dramatically slender, freestanding skyscraper for Times Square, rendered in graphite and colored pencil over a sepia photographic print to show how a sculptural tower might inhabit the street.
You’re struck by a thin, totem‑like column rising dead center against a grainy sepia cityscape—its exposed bracing and rhythmic vertical slots slicing the sky while the surrounding buildings fall away into dark silhouettes.
The drawing exemplifies a late‑twentieth‑century practice of photomontage and hand drawing that proposed poetic, sometimes unreal alternatives to commercial skyscrapers, using image and idea to rethink how a single form can reshape urban life.
Medium
Graphite and colored pencil on cut-and-pasted papers on sepia diazoprint
Dimensions
33 1/2 x 25 1/2" (85.1 x 64.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
369.1994
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