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Architecture of the Unbuilt Cheng+Snyder’s Phantom City iPhone application allows users to experience a skyline that never was. From a mile-high dome covering Midtown Manhattan to an airport at Battery Park, the Museum of the Phantom City features projects from New York’s past that were either abandoned or simply designed never to be built (case in point: Continuous Monument, a 1969 concept design in which the entire city would be enclosed in glass). Through interactive features that alert users to the presence of phantom buildings around them, the application serves as a walking tour of public art that never was.Interactive historical mapping exists to a degree with user-generated Google maps, but Phantom City turns the iPhone into a sort of dousing rod, uncovering invisible histories as users move around the city and alerting them to sites with particularly compelling pasts. It’s easy to imagine a whole slew of applications like this, transforming daily commutes to Wikipedia in real time. Our favorite? Alfred Beach’s abandoned pneumatic subway tube circa 1870.(Phantom City via NYT)

Architecture of the Unbuilt

Cheng+Snyder’s Phantom City iPhone application allows users to experience a skyline that never was. From a mile-high dome covering Midtown Manhattan to an airport at Battery Park, the Museum of the Phantom City features projects from New York’s past that were either abandoned or simply designed never to be built (case in point: Continuous Monument, a 1969 concept design in which the entire city would be enclosed in glass). Through interactive features that alert users to the presence of phantom buildings around them, the application serves as a walking tour of public art that never was.

Interactive historical mapping exists to a degree with user-generated Google maps, but Phantom City turns the iPhone into a sort of dousing rod, uncovering invisible histories as users move around the city and alerting them to sites with particularly compelling pasts. It’s easy to imagine a whole slew of applications like this, transforming daily commutes to Wikipedia in real time.

Our favorite? Alfred Beach’s abandoned pneumatic subway tube circa 1870.

(Phantom City via NYT)

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