Paul Rudolph: NYC Expressway
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These Gateway buildings would have flaked the approach to the LME from the Williamsburg Bridge. 1970. Photographic Print, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
Low rise buildings dominate this sketch. 1970. Graphite on paper, 14 ½ x 24 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
This colorful diagram shows intersecting transit networks. 1970. Graphite and color pencil on paper with taped overlays of the same, 24 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
This aerial view gives a sense of the scope of the project as it would have bisected downtown Manhattan. 1970. Photographic Print, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
These vertical towers were meant to be housing as you approach the Williamsburg Bridge. 1970. Brown ink on paper, 29 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
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For all the techy grandeur of Rudolph's sketches, I think I most love this drawing of a crane and delivery truck. 1970. Red pencil on paper, 15 ½ x 34 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
Rudolph favored A-frame structures to the roadway. 1970. Graphite on paper with graphite-on-trace overlay, 36 1/4 x 50 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. -
This perspective drawing shows a section of the LME as it would have been between Broome and Spring Streets. 1970. Ink and graphite on paper, 30 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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