Hello world, happy new year!

Damn, did I really not write anything here in 2019?! It hasn’t always been easy to keep posting to all my social media outlets, but I assure you, Project Subway is still going! Here’s a quick recap of a few key things that happened in 2019…

Visible City

In July, I presented, along with Eddie Jabbour (Kick Design), George Kokkinidis (Design Language), and John Schettino (Penn Station Atlas) at the “Visible City” lecture at the AIA Center for Architecture. The content of my presentation was not very different from my previous presentations, but the panel discussion at the end was interesting. It’s always inspiring to see Project Subway into context with all these other transportation and graphic design related projects. If you missed it, check it out here:

Interesting perspective, taken from street level, through the double height space

New York Review of Architecture

In September, I worked with folks at the New York Review of Architecture (NYRA) on a drawing of the 9/11 memorial. It is a section cut through the memorial pool, the passage that leads you from the Oculus to Westfield mall through a bunch of shops, and the Freedom Tower, with Calatrava’s bird-like structure in the background.

The NYRA is a paper, black and white, two-sided one-pager that gets published and distributed every month by a group of young graduates who care about architecture and the urban environment. Subscribe or follow them on instagram.

Accessible Station Lab

Then, in September, Project Subway finally made it into an actual subway station! I worked with the MTA on the Accessible Station Lab at the Jay Street-MetroTech station in Brooklyn. It includes 3D diagrams mapping out all the accessible routes within the station, as well as alternative route diagrams at elevators, with information about what to do when an elevator is out of service. Be sure to go visit that station - there are many clever wayfinding apps and installations. And if you have any ideas, comments, or feedback, be sure to leave a note on the web form.

So these are the highlights of 2019. I have a few things in the works and I can’t wait to share. Stay tuned!