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"This drawing is used to present our MArch Thesis Project, City of Nothing, Island of Everything. It expresses an Elevation, Plan and Section through Park Avenue, Manhattan - the focal point of the proposal. Park Avenue is used as a symbolic canvas that represents the overall island condition of Manhattan.

Manhattan, as a unique urban context, settles itself within the dichotomy of city and island. Its individuality and connectivity thrive for greater density as the catalyst for the containment of the strange. This architectural manifestation of estrangement shares a duality between the pragmatic and fantastical, so the city cannot help lending itself to the thinking of both creative endeavours. The containment of this architectural manifold, within the restriction of an island, splits between comparisons of the seen/unseen, vertical/horizontal and overworld/underworld. Here the island finds itself a blended world of consumption, sustainability, culture and political iconicity. Yet for all the island’s architectural accumulation, what it has to show for itself is non-material. Through the consumption and containment of everything, it ultimately presents and trades nothing.

The thesis seeks to explore this territory of estrangement through two narrative threads of thinking, the Pragmatic and the Fantastical which find themselves at times either separate or intertwined.”