450 Lexington Avenue

450 Lexington Avenue | New York, NY

• Markus Linnenbrink
• Ronnie Landfield

Background: This is a 900,000 square foot building built over the 45th Street post office. It was built in the 1980s by the Hines Interests. The materials and design project classical purity. The lobby has two main entrances on differing grade levels. The entrance from Lexington Avenue offers a vista of the lobby looking up a set of stairs into a large public reception area with a barrel vaulted ceiling. Lining the corridor from Lexington Avenue are six elegant black and white photographs of Parisian parks by Alexander Vethers. The 45th Street lobby is entered from the mid-block. The lobby…

850 Third Avenue

850 Third Avenue | New York, NY

• Malcolm Brown

Artist’s Statement Inspired by the poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” by William Carlos Williams, photographer Malcolm Brown created these images using vibrant color, texture, and unique aspects to transform quotidian environments into scenes of aesthetic curiosity. These images offer an abstract calm to what’s often considered chaotic, busy, or even unpleasant. They are also about layers and surfaces—both seen and unseen. The graffiti markings exist in their own countless layers, hidden and exposed in the urban landscape of buildings and infrastructure. Similarly, the droplets in Menemsha Rain create the presence of the layer of glass that otherwise would go unnoticed. The…