FILTER Times Square pavilion New York City, EMIT NYCxDesign Festival, Manhattan Architecture
FILTER Times Square pavilion New York
April 28, 2022
CLB Architects and EMIT present FILTER at Design Pavilion / NYCxDesign Festival
The steel and wood pavilion will be on view in Times Square, NYC from May 7-15
Design: CLB Architects
Rendering of FILTER in the heart of Times Square, NYC:

image : CLB Architects
New York, NY, April 26, 2022 ?? Created for Design Pavilion and the NYCxDesign Festival, FILTER carves out space for quiet recentering within the frenetic energy of Times Square. Designed as both a monumental object and an ephemeral experience, the pavilion establishes a new node in the heart of New York City?s urban fabric ? reorienting that experience toward the natural, rather than the man-made. Evoking the rugged Wyoming landscape from which it originates, FILTER draws the visitor into an engagement of its flowing folds of weathered steel and timber. At the pavilion?s center, a lone tree embodies the ecological cycles and serves as a counterpoint to the Manhattan?s urbanity. Designed by CLB Architects, the pavilion?s chapel-like design facilitates a new understanding of place, providing each occupant the chance to explore their own relationship with the natural world. The structure?s concept began as a simple diagram ? a folded sheet of paper, carefully sliced, and able to stand on its own. Eric Logan, Partner at CLB, translated this exercise into full-scale existence ...