It’s a press release about the opening of a new addition. Er, no, it’s a press release about an exhibition opening that will run briefly and then will really open when the addition is actually finished. Yet all of this won’t take place until November, and it’s in Queens, so you can forget all about it.
Anyway, that’s what happens when the Daily News mangles the message of New York Hall of Science. That, or the NYHS needs to review their press relations skills. There’s a nice big rendering of (actually, the previous page, and it will be gone tomorrow) what you can expect come November. Looking at it, one can’t tell what comprises the addition, though the tower that rises out of the center is similar to ‘organic’ mess rising over Astor Place (though there and here, it’s just latent moderist yearning). In rendering form, it’s pretty undistinguished ‘Interactive Learning Center’ fare — attempted ‘sculptural’ forms defining major spaces, sorta moderist detailing that is supposed to convey a technocratic aesthetic. Like EPCOT, or, um, the New York World’s Fair. So at least it’s respecting the vernacular.
Inside, aside from the baseball exhibit, you can see the Conference Bike, “the world’s first circular bicycle — a tricycle built for seven people sitting in a circle by artist/designer/inventor Eric Staller.” Eric Staller is best known for the Lightmobile, a VW Beetle covered in lights. The bike is intended to promote peace, though the promotional image on his site just makes me want to hate people I don’t know. Even more.
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New learning center opens in Queens. Maybe.
It’s a press release about the opening of a new addition. Er, no, it’s a press release about an exhibition opening that will run briefly and then will really open when the addition is actually finished. Yet all of this won’t take place until November, and it’s in Queens, so you can forget all about it.
Anyway, that’s what happens when the Daily News mangles the message of New York Hall of Science. That, or the NYHS needs to review their press relations skills. There’s a nice big rendering of (actually, the previous page, and it will be gone tomorrow) what you can expect come November. Looking at it, one can’t tell what comprises the addition, though the tower that rises out of the center is similar to ‘organic’ mess rising over Astor Place (though there and here, it’s just latent moderist yearning). In rendering form, it’s pretty undistinguished ‘Interactive Learning Center’ fare — attempted ‘sculptural’ forms defining major spaces, sorta moderist detailing that is supposed to convey a technocratic aesthetic. Like EPCOT, or, um, the New York World’s Fair. So at least it’s respecting the vernacular.
Inside, aside from the baseball exhibit, you can see the Conference Bike, “the world’s first circular bicycle — a tricycle built for seven people sitting in a circle by artist/designer/inventor Eric Staller.” Eric Staller is best known for the Lightmobile, a VW Beetle covered in lights. The bike is intended to promote peace, though the promotional image on his site just makes me want to hate people I don’t know. Even more.