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(photo: Julie Saad www.juliesaadphotography.com)

The Palaces for the People exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York has been getting some nice press recently.  Here are some links:

http://architizer.com/blog/guastavino-exhibition-mcny/

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/15/how_one_family_dominated_findesiecle_nyc_architecture.php

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/underground-treasure-in-nyc-a-mix-of-artistry-engineering/

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Vaulted Views at the City Museum

Vaulted Views at the City Museum from Studio Indefinit on Vimeo.

We are proud to announce the opening of our interactive video installation, Vaulted Views, as part of Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile at the Museum of the City of New York!  

Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile, is a new major exhibition showcasing the architectural innovations of Spanish immigrants Rafael Guastavino and his son Rafael Jr., whose patented structural system for building domes and vaults revolutionized the landscape of New York City—and the nation in the late 19th century.

The Guastavino Company’s legacy is hidden in plain sight within more than 200 landmarks across the city’s five boroughs, including Grand Central Terminal and the famous Oyster Bar, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, the Ellis Island Registry Room, the Elephant House at the Bronx Zoo, the Boathouse and Tennis Shelter in Prospect Park, and many more.

Filmed in ultra high-definition and projected on a 10-foot screen within the gallery, Vaulted Views captures the grand scale and intricate detail of ten Guastavino spaces in New York, including the Elephant House at the Bronx Zoo, the Harder Mausoleum inside Green-Wood Cemetery, and the Boathouse at Prospect Park. Visitors are able to control the screen’s vantage point within these spaces from an iPad in the gallery, moving the view to look up and around magnificent vaulted ceilings or down toward the bustle of city life below.

Palaces for the People is on view at the Museum of the City of New York until Sunday, September 7, 2014.  Located at  1220 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029

We couldn’t have created this work without the brilliant expertise of:

Producer/Editor: Andrew Siwoff

Cinematographer: Ivaylo Getov

Additional photography: Craig Waxman