September 12, 2006

Rock Center roof garden, cheese caves on OHNY

Open House New York, the lookie-loos dream fetish weekend in October, this year will open up 180 sites in New York City for special free tours and behind-the-scenes views normally off-limits to the public.

A few locations had already trickled out, but the press release went out Monday with more lacation details for the October 7 and 8 event: access to a Rockefeller Center roof garden, Murray's cheese caves, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, artist Tom Otterness' studio, Urban Glass glass-blowing studio, a Tiffany-designed mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery, and a Greening of Ground Zero tour.

OHNY confirms a number of other locations that previously leaked out, including an architectural tour of the United Nations, tours of the abandoned hospital on the south side of Ellis Island, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and an MTA substation.

In addition to the sites open to the public, more than 120 tours, talks, and family activities are planned for the weekend, including canoe tours of the Gowanus Canal, a Green Apple Cycling Tour of sustainable sites in Lower Manhattan, and walks through the historic theatres of Coney Island. A Saturday-only tour along the Old Croton Aqueduct requires reservations.

Other sites and events on the list:

Brooklyn Navy Yard
The High Line (unclear if this is on or near)
top of the Soldier and Sailors Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza
backstage tours of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
the Beaux-Arts Carlton Hotel
the Art Deco Astoria Pool in Queens
Morris-Jumel Mansion
tours of Grand Central
Times Square Midnight Tour
One Sixty Glass studios
EverGreene Painting Studios Inc.
City Reliquary
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn (with special multimedia performances)
Olmsted-designed Moravian Cemetery in Staten Island
New York Marble Cemetery
restored Queen-Anne style row houses in Harlem's historic Mount Morris Park District
Solar One, the city's only stand-alone solar-powered building
New York City Marble CemeteryBuild A Green Bakery, (with walls made of wheat and paint made from milk protein)
Battery Park City residential buildings
hard-hat tour of the first American Lung Association Health House-certified project in NY
new Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Contact Station, (with green construction)
Build it Green! NYC, the city’s marketplace for reusable building materials
tours of Cook + Fox architectural studio
tours of Richmond Hill, Queens
tours of South Street Seaport
tours of Flatbush's Victorian, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival areas

tours of Wallabout, (home to some of Brooklyn’s oldest wood-frame houses)
tours of Red Hook
304 Spring St., an 11-story SoHo residential building by Zakrzewski Hyde Architects Switch Building
the last New York townhouse built by modernist Paul Rudolph
the Kushner Residence in the West Village
the live/work spaces of architect David Ling
collagist Apryl Miller's apartment
Marpillero Pollack Architects' Tribeca loft

More architect-led tours:
Allied Works Architecture (Museum of Arts & Design)
balmori associates (studio tour)
Beyer Blinder Belle (Ellis Island, Grand Central Terminal, Rubin Museum of Art)
Billie Tsien and Tod Williams (American Folk Art Museum)
Eisenman Architects (studio tour)
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (Teardrop Park, The New School)
Rafael Vinoly Architects (Brooklyn Children’s Museum)
Obra Architects, (P.S. 1 BEATFUSE!)
The Rockwell Group (studio tour, Carlton Hotel, Rosa Mexicano Restaurant)
Snohetta AS, NY (studio tour)

The full list will be made available September 29.

Earlier: Open House sneak preview: Federal Hall, Chrysler

September 12, 2006 11:27 AM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Midtown, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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