5 drafts for Manhattan 2030

Draw Think Tank: Emerging Territories of Movement During the festival, Audi joint with the innovative architectural institution Storefront for Art and Architecture and interdisciplinary thinkers to develop approaches and solutions for urban planning. The event featured a collective sketch session by means of an iPad app, with the images projected onto the walls of the event venue in real time.

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Cloud 9 (Barcelona) was proceeded by Abruzzo Bodziak.

EastSide / Turtle Bay (PDF)

J. MAYER H. (Berlin) was proceeded by Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY.

Central Park West (PDF)

Standardarchitecture (Bejing) was proceeded by Leong Leong. Hudson Yards Area (PDF)

Alison Brooks Architects (London) was proceeded by Matter Practice. Washington Heights (PDF)

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group (Kopenhagen) was proceeded by Peter Macapia/labDora.

Lower Manhattan (PDF)

"In the past, the car often shaped the city – but in the future, it could be the other way round", said Peter Schwarzenbauer, AUDI AG Board Member for Marketing and Sales in his speech at the opening of the platform “Architizer” and the exhibition „Audi Urban Future Award: Project New York“. In 2010, five architectural offices designed concepts for Manhattan’s future, shown at the Biennale in Venice. Their drafts were handed over to five New York City residential architects in order to be proceeded for the „Audi Urban Future Award: Project New York“. The results of this ongoing development – one draft for each district of Manhattan – have now been shown at the Open House Gallery at the „Festival of Ideas for the New City“: a 50-foot interactive model of Manhattan in 2030. Matching of the architectural offices:

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