New York:

Study trip to New York 2010.

The Year 3 Study trip gives students the opportunity to spend a week exploring and discovering design. This year we went to New York giving us the chance to see much great design in many different contexts.




With two organised visits:

• Hudson Hotel 356 W.58th, designed by Starck
• Gramercy Park Hotel, 2 Lexington Avenue, various designers, inc Ian Shraeger, Martin Baas + Julian Schnabel.

Plus, but not exclusively:

• Prada (Koolhaas) corner of Broadway and Prince @ Prince St Subway
• Pleats Please, corner of Prince and Wooster (Toshiko Mori and Gwenail Nicolas)
• Camper, 125 Prince St. (Marti Guixé)
• Longchamp, 132 Spring St. (Heatherwick Studio)
• Alessi, 130 Greene St. (Hani Rashid/Asymptote Studio)
• Droog, 76 Greene St
• Comme des Garçons (Studio Morsa, Future Systems + Rei Kawakubo) W21st 11th /12th Ave
• Vitra showroom and office (Roy Design)
• Stella McCartney, 429 W 14th Street (Universal Design Studio)
• Alexander McQueen, 417 W 14th Street (Russell (Pentagram) + Alexander McQueen)
• Carlos Miele W 14th Street (Asymptote)
• Catherine Malandrino, 652 Hudson St. (Christope Pillet)
• Printed Matter (Art/Design books + print) 11th Ave between 20th+21st
• Apple Store (5th Ave + South East corner of Central Park)
• The Standard Hotel, 848 Washington Street (Interiors by Roman and Williams, building by Polshek Partnership)
• Hotel on Rivington, Rivington Street. Lower East Side. (Thor bar: Marcel Wanders)
• Paramount Hotel 235 W.46th,
• Royalton Hotel 44 W.44th (both Starck)
• ʻWʼ hotel (Yabu Pushelberg), Times Square/47th Street
• The High-Line, park on elevated railway line linking West Chelsea and Meatpacking district surrounded by development work includes buildings by Shigeru Ban, Lindy Roy and Frank Gehry www.thehighline.org/
• Williamsburg in general
• The New Museum (SANAA) 235 Bowery. $6
• MoMA 53rd St (Yoshio Taniguchi) www.moma.org $12 (Fri 4–8 free)
• PS1 (Fredrick Fischer) 22-25 Jackson Avenue $2
• The Storefront for Art and Architecture, www.storefrontnews.org 97 Kenmare Street, free
• Brasserie (Diller + Scofidio) beneath Seagram Building 375 Park Ave. (Mies van der Rohe)
• Empire Diner, (an original stainless steel deco diner) 11th Ave