New New York: Fast Forward
March 29–May 7, 2007
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City

Exhibition design: Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis

New New York: Fast Forward was the fifth in the New New York exhibition series, organized by the League to explore significant new developments in architecture and planning in New York City. Fast Forward was a snapshot of the city in the midst of an explosion of building and construction in spring 2007. The exhibition mapped more than six hundred new building and planning projects from small multi-family residences to neighborhood-scale master plans, that were then under construction or in planning, in order to provide a glimpse of the big picture: what was being proposed, where new building was concentrated, what the buildings under construction would look like when completed. In addition, video interviews with thirty New York-based architects, from emerging to established, were included in the exhibition to survey their thoughts on issues from the level of design quality of new construction to the relative planning merits of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. The interviews can be viewed on the exhibition website.

Above: Exhibition installation.  Photo: David Sundberg/Esto.