The point of the 149-foot-high cable-net glass wall at the Time Warner Center is to be as transparent as possible.
The room will have a glass wall on its east end overlooking Columbus Circle through an even larger cable-net glass wall beyond.
Mr. Carpenter, who is internationally known for his work with glass, including the cable-net glass wall at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, focused on the north-south orientation of the campus.
Mr. Carpenter, 54, whose work includes the astonishingly transparent cable-net glass wall at the new Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, was awarded a $340,000 contract by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last week to join the architectural and engineering team working on the transit center, which is to be completed in 2007.
Next it was across town to a much bigger and more crowded nexus of architecture and commerce -- the new Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle -- to see the artist James Carpenter's towering cable-net glass wall, the largest such glass wall in the world.
Cable-net glass façades on all four sides of the building for the higher floors, designed by Schlaich Bergermann, will be consistent with the other buildings in the complex.
After the designers had stacked these rooms one on top of another, like birthday presents, they simply wrapped the assemblage in a net of glass and steel.
We set up camp upon a grassy flat, and wander along the foreshore, picking through tidewrack and pocketing curios: a mermaid's purse, torn and discarded, scraps of net, pebbled glass.
The creative vibe is everywhere: the treehouse is insulated with multicoloured wool held in place with old fishing nets, a glass bottle wall runs alongside the vegetable patch, and in the woods there's an old, soon-to-be-revived charcoal kiln.
I wasn't sure how much trash we would find, but at the end of day one we had collected a large mound of trash--buoys, fishing nets, rope, glass, plastic bottles and more.
You think you'd approach things with a sense of humor when you're strutting a magenta lasercut spandex dress with cutouts down the runway, especially when it's paired with floral-net circular glasses.
