Holding On

Anchor plates are essential components in building constructions, providing support and stability to structures. These elements, strategically placed on façades, distribute and manage forces ensuring the building’s integrity.
Anchor plates can emerge during demolitions, becoming visible for a limited amount of time, or left exposed ‘ad infinitum’, converting themselves into esthetic features.
They are visible in a wide spectrum of shapes, materials, and patterns throughout the cityscape.
Given the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of New York City, anchor plates reflect the city’s rich tapestry of architectural diversity.

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IMAGES AS CONCEPTUAL BUILDING BLOCKS
Written by @steve.bisson

‘We seek more from the world, or rather, we resist allowing things to remain static. In inhabiting the world, human beings inevitably alter it, and therefore manifest the need to have control of the things of the world. The rest is technique. The clear risk humanity faces is in choosing technique as the ultimate goal, as an end in itself. Technique is thus invoked as a myth of survival, a means of overcoming the agony of death or the uncertainty of the future’.

‘The series of unusual facades of New York buildings depicted by Tommaso Sacconi emphasizes the technical aspect of this relationship (...)’