Close-up of interior axonometric (opposite)
Tallest Residential Tower in the Western Hemisphere,Churchman
Bathroom perspective, 1009 Midtown
BEHIND THE PHOTO\ The disruption caused at human level can be seen most clearly in the perspectives, where although little appears wrong at first, obscured views and incoherent layouts undermine the attempted portrayal of luxury living. I assembled the perspectives to read in a similar way to the marketing photographs and the subsequent artworks that critique them, using lurid colours and luxurious textures to reflect the apartments. The tension between the representation of Eisenman and developers such as Trump is most GC3.1+.2+.3/ GC5.1
evident in this image, as it combines obsessive line drawings with the photographic reality features in marketing images. This tension draws focus to considering how Eisenman’s schemes have to be inhabited in the real world, and can’t remain just drawings as perhaps he would like them to be. In reciprocal, lines draw attention to the meticulous precision and economic calculation behind the glossy photographs of luxury apartments, exposing their nature, which is more to do with storage of capital as opposed to luxury living. 78