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HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT /LLOYD KIM

LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

OBJECTIVENew York City is one the most complicated and dense city in the world. And skyscrapers played an critical role to make that possible. People might not know, but Skyscrapers could mean many different things when they are built in a city. There are technologies, wealth, and cultures that a city/country has to offer behind it. And especially in a city such as New York CIty, city full of skyscrapers, they are the utmost important elements that makes the city so unique and memorable. Thus I’d like to create a brief history video of skyscrapers in New York City. Buildings I’d like to point out should represent its historical, architectural and cultural background on their own period in NYC. They could be the tallest in the world when they were built, or just in the city.

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

SELECTION OF SKYSCRAPERS

1902 Flat Iron Building

1928Woolthworth Tower

193040 Wall StreetChrysler Building

1931Empire State Building

1958Seagram Building

1972World Trade Center 1,2

2009Bank of America Tower

2013 One World Trade Center

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

KEYWORDSNew York City, Landmarks, Elevator, First(1910-1930) and second(1960-) high-rise construction boom, Con-struction, Chicago School, Neo-gothic, Art Deco, Competetion, Modernism, Structure, Great Depression, 9/11 attacks, green architecture, Mid town, Lower Manhattan, Innovation.

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

REFERENCE First high-rise boom

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

REFERENCE Second high-rise boom

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

CONCEPT #1Looking Back

This motion piece will develop its story by going backwards the timeline of New York CIty’s Skyscraper his-tory. It will show today’s Skyscrapers first and then will explain what made today’s skyscrapers possible by showing what happened previsously in this city. Viewers will be able to understand easily what people had to go through to retain skyscrapers of today.

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LLOYDKIMDESIGN.COM / [email protected]

HISTORY OF SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK CITY / SENIOR YEAR PROJECT / LLOYD KIM

CONCEPT #2Looking Forward

This motion piece will prcess its story by showing what happened in the beginning of New York city’s Sky-scrapers history in 1900’s and how they got developed and what kind of major events happened while they were getting developed. As for viewers, while they’re watching, they won’t be able to help but think what will happen next and how Skyscapers will look like in the future.

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