Untapped Cities Recap - American International Building

Dominating the downtown skyline, the American International Building (AIG) at 70 Pine Street, rose up during the heart of the Great Depression, 1930-1932.

Click the image below to jump to the Untapped Cities website to see the full doodle and a little bit about the history.

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Inspiration #18

I guess I'm on a black and white kick this year (so far). This week a pinterest user's (neilcmitchell) architettura board was particularly interesting to me. Here are a few of my favorites. I urge you to follow this board if you like what you see.

1. unknown (pinterest)

2. Zaha Hadid (pinterest)

3. unknown (pinterest)

  
4. Sanatorium, Yalta (pinterest)

5. Wuzhen Theatre, Zhejiang, China, 2013 | Kris Yao, Artech Architects (pinterest)

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Untapped Cities: ArchiDoodle

After a a brief-ish hiatus I'm back! And contributing to Untapped Cities again. This week I created a doodle inspired by the art/sculptures at Rockefeller Center

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Overdue Update!

I haven't been updating this as much as I would have liked to these past few months, especially since November. I bought a house with my fiance and got married. I wish I had a few minutes to do some art in there, but everything was put on the back burner... cleaning, eating, sleeping... literally everything was put on hold.

I did get a few great projects done for the wedding! Thank you to Pinterest for an overwhelming number of ideas, projects and inspiration. I did a whole wine/chalkboard theme for the reception, and even a little bit for the ceremony. I had a great time doing the typography for all the signs. I should have a few on Etsy soon, including a listing for a custom sign like the one below.

I also put together a world landmark collage for a new version of the Untapped Cities site. Below isn't my final version, but one of the final drafts.

My sister received a custom scarf for being my maid of honor. I painted a message on it for her, (process photo below) which she can read when it's laid out, but the message looks like an abstract pattern when worn. (similar to this)

That's about all I managed to do between packing, moving, unpacking, and planning the wedding... all after I get home from a full day of work. 

What have you been up to these past few months?

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Architecture + doodles

I've been trying to figure out for a while what direction to take my doodles in. I have been stalled at the same style for awhile and I was starting to get bored. I was looking to combine my two loves... doodling and architecture, but I couldn't think of how. Then for Christmas my brother got me a New York City art deco book. Then it hit me how to combine the two.

Here is the start of my first Archidoodle:

I plan on filling a large 20x30 page with this pattern.

Can you guess the building?

What is your favorite NYC building?


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Untapped Cities: Don't Forget to Look Up!

Check out my weekly column for Untapped Cities, make sure you click on the link at the bottom to see the full drawing!

Not far from the Brooklyn Bridge, watching over City Hall, stands the red terra cotta Potter Building, designed by N.G. Starkweather and commissioned by Orlando B. Potter. Constructed from 1883-86 using terra cotta manufactured by the Boston Terra Cotta Company, the Potter building replaced Potter’s World Building that was destroyed by a fire in early 1882. In 1883, The New York Timesannounced that the 11 story office building with the street level commercial space would cost $700,000. To avoid history repeating itself, the Potter Building had the most advanced fireproofing available in the 1880s.

Buildings in the 1880s usually topped out at four stories. But with technological advances, tall buildings between nine and ten stories transformed the streets of lower (Click to read more and see the art)

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SoHo after lunch

This is probably my favorite photo of the weekend.  Soho has really great architecture :)

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