new york cityvision competition announced by squint/opera design + cityvision

‘southern star’ by ‘squint/opera’ for peter bennetts and buro north, imagining an alternative use for the defunct ‘southern star big wheel’ ferris wheel in melbourne, australia

I have seen the future: announcement of the ‘new york cityvision competition’ MACRO (museo d’arte contemporanea roma), rome, italy february 17th, 2012

london creative agency squint/opera works in still and motion imagery for architectural, advertising, and creative proposals that often investigate the world of the future through the lenses of environmental and consumerist culture.

in the event ‘I have seen the future‘, taking place friday, february 17th, 2012 at the MACRO contemporary art museum in rome, the studio’s work sets the stage for the announcement of a a new international architecture competition. architecture laboratory and magazine cityvision is to announce the opening of a call for proposals that explore the future of new york city in the ‘new york cityvision competition‘. squint/opera is also to lecture at the event.

below designboom showcases some of squint/opera’s recent projects, that themselves envision the future of new york.

in ‘WTC ground zero’, commissioned by the new york city port authority, the studio developed a short film that shows new yorkers stopping to watch their city reassemble itself. the ‘coney island’ project, designed for the municipal arts society, shows an imaginative future concept of coney island amusement park in brooklyn, part of a community attempt to counter developer proposals to turn the area into a condominium park.

skyline view of squint/opera’s coney island concept

concept view within the coney island of the future

in ‘WTC ground zero’, squint/opera visually illustrates the idea of new yorkers rebuilding their city post-9/11