Winter Garden NYC An Electronic Economy- Case Study

Case Study of the Winter Garden. I am using this project to develop a thesis that electronic economies have inspired a change in the architectural approach for financial buildings. The shift from sturdy materials such as marble and stone has been replaced by glass in such a way that it in itself is a "digital" representation of architecture. The transparency is important because it highlights the potential of electronic economies in that they emerge themselves into the background, allowing life and environment to become the focus of electronic economies. Case Study of the Winter Garden. I am using this project to develop a thesis that electronic economies have inspired a change in the architectural approach for financial buildings. The shift from sturdy materials such as marble and stone has been replaced by glass in such a way that it in itself is a "digital" representation of architecture. The transparency is important because it highlights the potential of electronic economies in that they emerge themselves into the background, allowing life and environment to become the focus of electronic economies. The image gallery can be found here http://www.flickr.com/photos/peist/sets/72157623571955712/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Winter Garden
• Battery Park
• Winter Garden NYC
• Financial District
• Electronic Economy

[MrBreddd]

Great soundtrack! did you add sound effects to it? i felt like I missed so much stuff last time i was at the garden. you showed a of niches

[Jasynp07]

@MrBreddd Yeah, I took a sound and modified it a lot adding sound effects, repositioning parts of the song and making it work with the beat. I took a few of the sounds such as the children screaming at the end from actual video sound that I shot while there.

[uglyfeelings]

Images move quickly, but the theme you have connecting these issues is quite fascinating. Responding to Regina's comment, I would add that the transparency evident here might also relate to the shift in labour from manufacturing to service-oriented economies. The very idea of labour is increasingly hard to quantify; hence the economy seems more ephemeral.

[regcollins]

. Do you think the transparency of the building materials might also reflect the sense that wealth is more "accessible" than in the old days of marble and stone? I can imagine the Rockefellers being impressed that their banks were built with marble and stone - a way to exclude the people who "did not belong". Today's society values upward mobility and the so-called American dream, so perhaps the architecture also reflects this new social sensibility?