<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>3</h2> <p>FAÇADE, WEST 8TH STREET SUBWAY STATION Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Subway station architects: James McConnell, Daniel Frankfurt PC Like a wave of the ocean, like the sand in waves. The program is: that the station has views to the beach. Use the wave, then, to make a view – the force of a wave – the wave forces a view. As the façade waves up and down, it waves in and out; as the façade waves in and out, it waves up and down. The façade bulges in on one level, it waves onto the other level, where it bulges out. The façade on one level waves in between the waves of the other level; where one façade bulges in, the other façade bulges out. A stairway up to the station: the façade waves out, bulges out, to enclose the stairway. A ramp to the station: the façade waves up and down, it bulges out, it breaks to make an entrance. Inside the station, façade bulges in and out until it reaches a breaking point, it opens to make a view. Here and there the façade bulges just far enough in, just far enough out, to make a seat. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/w8th_street_subway_station/index.html">W8th Street Subway Station Facade</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2005/index.html">2005</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Buildings/index.html">Buildings</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Built/index.html">Built</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Facade/index.html">Facade</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Push%20and%20Pull/index.html">Push and Pull</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Split-Separate-Strips%20and%20Strands/index.html">Split-Separate-Strips and Strands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stephen%20Roe/index.html">Stephen Roe</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Transparent-Translucent/index.html">Transparent-Translucent</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Transportation/index.html">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/United%20States/index.html">United States</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/W%208th%20Street%20Subway%20Station/index.html">W 8th Street Subway Station</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wave-Ripple-Flow/index.html">Wave-Ripple-Flow</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="http://studio.stamen.com/acconci/dev/img/403/Platform.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/403/inside1 copy.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/403/inside1 copy.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>