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Tishman Construction Corporation, which has been building New York since 1898, has served as Construction Manager pro bono. The distinguished firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is the Museum’s architect, with award-winning partner Roger Duffy as lead designer. The Museum owns its space, which has been generously donated by Millennium Partners, the building’s developers. The facility occupies ground-floor space in a mixed-use project that includes the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and a 38-story condominium tower. In 2004, the Skyscraper Museum opened a permanent home in a building at the southern tip of Battery Park City. Morgenthau, the Museum’s Chairman and Manhattan District Attorney, in April 2003.
The four-story wing, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, architects of the original Museum building, contains Safra Hall, a state-of-the-art theater suitable for films, lectures and performances a memorial garden entitled Garden of Stones created by Andy Goldsworthy classrooms a resource center and library a living history center expanded gallery space for temporary exhibitions offices Abigael’s at the Museum, a kosher cafe operated by celebrity chef Jeff Nathan and an event/catering hall. The Museum began construction on an 82,000 square-foot addition in fall 2001. The Museum goes beyond recounting the horrors of the Holocaust Its mission is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life over the past century – before, during, and after the Holocaust. With its six-sided shape and tiered roof symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, the Museum has proved a powerful attraction as one of New York City’s newest cultural destinations. The 30,000-square-foot Museum of Jewish Heritage is located on the waterfront at 36 Battery Place in Battery Park City. In much of Brian Tolle’s work he uses cutting-edge technology in unexpected ways, blurring the border between the contemporary and the historical. Using a variety of media, Tolle’s works draw themes from the scale and experience of their surroundings provoking a re-reading by cross-wiring reality and fiction. His recent public works include Waylay for the Whitney Biennel in Central Park, New York (2002), Man’s Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe for the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2001) and WitchCatcher at MetroTech Center Brooklyn, New York (1997) reinstalled in New York City Hall Park, New York (2003). Layers of mutable text, appearing beyond touch as shadows upon the glass, wrap around the exterior of the Memorial and into the passageway leading to the cottage while accounts of world hunger are heard from an audio installation overhead.īrian Tolle is an internationally renowned sculptor and public artist. This landscape is cantilevered over a stratified base of glass and fossilized Irish limestone, presenting a theater of historical and modern sentiments about famine worldwide.
Ascending to an overlook twenty-five feet above the ground, the visitor confronts a breath-taking view of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island beyond. The cottage has been painstakingly reconstructed on the Memorial’s halfacre site as an expression of solidarity to those who left from those who stayed behind.įrom the cottage, visitors to the Memorial meander along paths winding through a rugged landscape thickly planted with native Irish flora-plants often found growing in fallow fields. The design expresses a desire to react and respond to changing world events without losing its focus on the project’s commemorative intent.Ĭentral to Tolle’s project is an authentic Famine-era cottage donated to the Memorial by his extended family, the Slacks of Attymass, County Mayo, Ireland. One and a half million Irish were lost through famine related death and the Diaspora. The Irish Hunger Memorial is designed to raise public awareness of the events that led to the famine of 1845-52 and to encourage efforts to address current and future hunger worldwide. LISTEN: Additional background of the Irish Hunger Memorial provided by cultural liaison Adrian Flannelly and artist Brian Tolle (Audio File) WATCH: BPCA Presents: Public Art on Video – Irish Hunger Memorial
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