Poster House in the Flatiron District, New York City Museum, Manhattan Architecture, Images
Poster House in the Flatiron District, NYC
Modern Museum Building project in Manhattan, NY, United states of America – design by LTL Architects
Jan 24 2020
Poster House
Design: LTL Architects
Location: New York, NY, USA

The design for Poster House , the first museum devoted to poster art in New York City, responds to both the unique qualities of the institution within the cultural landscape of New York City and the exceptional urban conditions of its site in the Flatiron district near Madison Square Park.

The site comprises a through block street level space and cellar extending from 23rd street on the south almost 200 feet to 24th Street on the north. The design leverages this exceptional condition to create a vibrant public space that links street to street, acting as an extension of the space of the city and reflecting the notion that the poster?s natural habitat is the urban realm itself. At the same time, the space provides for museum quality galleries that acknowledge the poster as a significant cultural and aesthetic artifact. These exhibition areas need to be self-contained to provide the required levels of environmental control, since climatizing the entire through block site would be practically infeasible.
The resulting design is therefore conceived as a negotiation between two contrasting but complimentary types of space: a more enclosed gallery volume and...