Colorful and Vibrant Prints of Iconic NYC
When Dutch illustrator and graphic designer Remko Heenskerk moved to New York City, he was inspired by the architectureas many first-timers are. To pay homage, he created a series of iconic prints, featuring his favorite places. With vibrant colors and strong, clean lines, he captures the dynamism of the citys many buildings and neighborhoods. Check out more of his portfolio on Behance or buy his prints on Inprint .
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I have traveled around the world and enjoyed the beauty, history and architecture of many of the largest and many smaller cities and towns, but I love visiting New York
I love the shopping, the shows, the sports, the food, the people everything but the traffic and the high cost
I hope you enjoy the illustrations
I really like these prints Robert. I was looking for something new for my den, and you have provided me with exactly what I was looking for.
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I am glad you liked them
I have friends that live in the city that share photos now and then of the city or special goings on and I always enjoy them immensely
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YOu did it again...you found some awesome pic's...any of these would really brighten up a room...
Nona
I never tire of the skyline when I visit NYC
Glad you liked them
I have never been to NYC, but I hope to some day!!
Go for the shopping and the food (and of course the sightseeing) and everything else will be a bonus
My favorite time is between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the decorations are amazing and the shopping great
These are a bit to stark for me personally but I certainly appreciate the skill and artistry in creating them.
A Mac
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I thought the starkness added to the image, especially the ones that were readily recognizable - it allowed me to insert my own recollection of the place into the image as I enjoyed it.
Interesting to say the least. I recognized a number of the places, Soho being one.
The flatiron building and the empire state building jump out at me, but I am sure that native New Yorkers would know them all
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My wife was born and raised in Brooklyn, she knew everyone of them RIO.
BTW, she still has the NY accent..
I have a friend who left Boston nearly thirty years ago and you would think it was last week
And he doesn't think he has an accent at all
Beautiful Pictures RIO, I hope you don't mind me adding a little history your article, this building is north of Manhattan in the borough of The Bronx, but its very historical and maybe you would appreciate this:
Kingsbridge Armory
The Kingsbridge Armory , also known as the Eighth Regiment Armory , is located on West Kingsbridge Road in the New York City borough of the Bronx . It was built in the 1910s, from a design by the firm of then-state architect Lewis Pilcher to house the National Guard 's Eighth Coastal Artillery Regiment unit which relocated from Manhattan in 1917. It is possibly the largest armory in the world. [ 3 ]
In addition to its military function, it has been used over the years for exhibitions, boxing matches, and a film set. After World War II the city offered it to the United Nations as a temporary meeting place. In 1974 it was designated a city landmark, and eight years later it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Its military use ended and it was turned over to city management in 1996. Since then it has remained vacant as various proposals to redevelop it have failed, including one which turned into a flashpoint over living wage policies and ended in a rare defeat for the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg . In 2013, a new plan to redevelop it as the world's largest indoor ice center was announced, called the Kingsbridge National Ice Center . One National Guard unit has continued to use an annex in the rear until a new headquarters can be found.
The armory complex occupies almost the entire 5-acre (2.0ha) block
An empty moat runs across the front entrance of the building
The building itself is a nine-story red brick edifice with a curved, sloping metal roof, with glass in the field at either end. Its brickwork has been considered among the city's finest. Stone is used for trim, especially around the slit windows at regular intervals. A corbeled stone string course runs below the parapeted roof the length of the building. Above the corbels, and at the corners, are turrets . [ 3 ]
In the middle of the south elevation is the two-story office wing and main entrance, a section known as the headhouse. [ 6 ] Two semi-engaged towers with conical roofs rise at its front above the roofline. The transition to the office wing from the main wall is marked by angled walls, two low round towers with conical roofs and cupolas and two square towers. [ 1 ]
Between them is the main entrance, a round arch with heavy iron gates and paneled double doors with stone steps and walls. They are topped with a stone projection on corbels and a crenellated parapet. In the brick above the entrance is the regimental motif in terra cotta , a shield over an eagle with draped flags. [ 3 ]
Inside is a 180,000-square-foot (17,000m 2 ) drill hall and an 800-seat auditorium . A four-centered double truss 100 feet (30m) high spans the ceiling. Two cellar levels, which used to house military vehicles, also provide space for storage, lecture halls, and fitness rooms, that included a basketball court and a 400-foot (120m) shooting range . [ 3 ]
In the office wing, the entry hall has square brick piers supporting the segmental arches that frame the groin vaults . Brick quoins decorate the piers and intrados . The commander's office, upstairs, is done in the Colonial Revival style, with engaged columns, fielded panel walls and an Adamesque fireplace mantel . [ 1 ]
Aesthetics
Architect Lewis Pilcher 's design was an engineering feat, probably inspired by the large trainsheds of contemporary railroad stations. Six years after its 1917 completion, the Architectural Record described it as epitomizing "simplicity, directness, convenience, and adaptation to special requirements". The Record quoted Pilcher himself as saying it was "perhaps the most interesting of all the armory designs in the country. The necessities of mobilization ... were successfully met." [ 3 ]
Subsequently it has been described as "schizoid", appearing as "two distinct and incongruous buildings." The medieval architecture of the office wing echoed social concerns of the 1880s, when the National Guard was frequently called out to suppress civil unrest such as strikes. The towers and crenellation suggested the authority and power of the military of an earlier time. [ 6 ]
By the early 1910s, the Guard was more integrated with the Army, and their units became more focused on national defense purposes, training and equipping for the battlefield instead of the streets. The design of the drill shed reflects this changing function, its steel and glass making the whole a stylistic hybrid similar to the Brooklyn Bridge and the 1901 Squadron C Armory in Brooklyn, also designed by Pilcher's firm, the first armory in which the steel drill hall is a prominent element when seen from the outside. "It points toward a moment when historical ornament will be stripped away," writes David Bady of Lehman College, "leaving engineering to be admired as architecture." [ 6 ]
History
As an armory
The Eighth Regiment dates to 1786. Since it was part of the honor guard at George Washington 's inauguration, it later acquired the informal name of the Washington Greys. [ 3 ] Since 1895, it had been based at the old Squadron A Armory on Park Avenue in Manhattan . [ 1 ]
In 1911 the New York State Legislature authorized the construction of a new armory using what had already been excavated as the planned eastern basin for Jerome Park Reservoir . Some military artifacts were unearthed, probably from the nearby sites of Revolutionary War forts Independence and Number Five, but no formal archeological survey was done. The firm of Lewis Pilcher , who became state architect two years later, was commissioned. [ 3 ]
During World War II the armory was active in the war effort. Herbert Lehman , a former governor and U.S. Senator, ceremonially reviewed 10,000 troops there at a 1942 event. It was one of the few registration sites in the city for immigrants from enemy nations. [ 7 ] After the war the city offered it to the United Nations General Assembly as a temporary meeting place until the main UN building was finished. [ 6 ]
In 1957 the two rear buildings were constructed. [ 2 ] It was designated a city landmark in 1974. [ 5 ] At that time the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission called it "an outstanding example of military architecture." Over the years following, the main armory building was neglected, and by the 1990s, the Guard units who called it home were running most of their operations from the annex buildings on West 195th.
East profile of armory from Kingsbridge Road subway station
CM
Thanks, very nicepictures and the video is good as well
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New York City certainly has some gorgeous architecture! Great pictures! Thanks for sharing them!
Dowser
No city I enjoy visiting more
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