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Frieze Art Fair NYC by SO-IL
The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL.
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Located between Manhattan, Bronx and Queens on Randall’s Island, the structure comprised six rented rectangular tents connected with wedge-shaped corner sections.
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Strips of white tent fabric overhanging the two gabled ends were fanned out and fastened to the ground, creating partially sheltered entrances.
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This is the first year that the Frieze Art Fair has taken place in New York as well as London.
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See Carmody Groarke's timber pavilions for last year's London event here.
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See more stories about SO-IL here, including a temporary pavilion with reflective purple scales created for an arts festival in Beijing.
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Photography is by Iwan Baan.
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Here's some more information from SO-IL:
Frieze Art Fair NYC
Working with a prefabricated rental structure forced us to be inventive with a limited vocabulary.
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Randall’s Island, situated in between Manhattan, Bronx and Queens is one of the few pieces of open land in New York City large enough to accommodate the 225,000sf, 1500 ft long structure.
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Pie-shaped tent section wedges are inserted between six tent sections to relax and open up the standardized system, and offer amenities at each section as a moment of recess.
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The wedges bend the otherwise straight tent into a meandering, supple, shape.
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The winding form animates it on the unusual waterfront site, as well as establishing the temporary structure as an icon along the water.
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The wedges divide the relentless length of the fair into manageable sections.
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Rather than exposing the end gable section at each end of the tent, we extended the tent roof fabric in stripes, dissolving the tent into the ground.
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The playful entrances introduce visitors to the experience within.
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Client: Frieze Art Fair
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Location: New York
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Program: exhibition spaces, event space, cafes
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Area: 20.900 m² / 225,000 sf
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