New York Tower, project, New York, New York, Office plan
Ricardo Bofill
Spanish, born 1939
1985
A graphite-on-print drawing proposing an office-floor plan for a New York tower, visualizing a modular layout of perimeter offices around a central service core and circulation.
What hits you first is the calm, measured precision—the soft pencil shading that turns rooms into low-relief volumes, the serrated sawtooth edge of the façade, and the tiny desks and stair cores that make the plan feel both architectural and intimately scaled.
The drawing shows Bofill’s late‑20th‑century impulse to fuse rigorous, typological planning with theatrical composition, reaffirming hand drawing as a communicative, even poetic, tool in architectural design.
Medium
Graphite on print
Dimensions
37 7/8 x 37 7/8" (96.2 x 96.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Accession
382.1985
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