10-31-2019
Wearing Architecture: FXCollaborative Skyscraper Costumes at CTBUH 2019
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a special event was held to close the 10th World Congress—an architectural costume party. The evening will be a modern interpretation of the 1931 Beaux-Arts Ball in New York, where titans from the building industry came dressed as the buildings they had created.
FXCollaborative Senior Partner Dan Kaplan and Senior Associate Sara Davis were in attendance at the event, held the day before Halloween, dressed as the skyscrapers they helped create: 4 Times Square (the former Condé Nast Building) and Allianz Tower.
4 Times Square's distinctive top features four super-scaled billboards, a steel cube, and a 300-foot-tall telecommunications needle. The costume reinterprets this as a regal crown with illuminated acrylic, miniature LED lights, and tufted blue velvet.
Located in Istanbul, Turkey, Allianz Tower's chiseled massing draws inspiration from surrounding local landforms and Turkish geometric motifs, with a gold scrim cloaking the tower for solar control. The costume pairs the angularity of the building form and decorative patterning, with the fashion of a cloak inspired by Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss."
The costumes were produced in-house by FXCollaborative staff and the model shop.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1969. It is the world's leading resource for professionals focused on the inception, design, construction, and operation of tall buildings and future cities. Learn more at ctbuh.org.
FXCollaborative Senior Partner Dan Kaplan and Senior Associate Sara Davis were in attendance at the event, held the day before Halloween, dressed as the skyscrapers they helped create: 4 Times Square (the former Condé Nast Building) and Allianz Tower.
4 Times Square's distinctive top features four super-scaled billboards, a steel cube, and a 300-foot-tall telecommunications needle. The costume reinterprets this as a regal crown with illuminated acrylic, miniature LED lights, and tufted blue velvet.
Located in Istanbul, Turkey, Allianz Tower's chiseled massing draws inspiration from surrounding local landforms and Turkish geometric motifs, with a gold scrim cloaking the tower for solar control. The costume pairs the angularity of the building form and decorative patterning, with the fashion of a cloak inspired by Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss."
The costumes were produced in-house by FXCollaborative staff and the model shop.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1969. It is the world's leading resource for professionals focused on the inception, design, construction, and operation of tall buildings and future cities. Learn more at ctbuh.org.
