April 18, 2004
Pet Architecture: PATH station
A temporary pet architecture, seen in the lower Manhattan PATH station earlier this week.
Scale is easily determined by the size of the man sitting inside the structure. It's unclear what the purpose of this little station might be. Perhaps it is a makeshift office and/or guardhouse for the construction effort going on along side it. Although it gives the occupant no privacy whatsoever, you can see that the worker inside was pretty relaxed; although he was completely visable to people outside, perhaps the coziness of the enclosure and the separation from the vast underground space outside gave him a relaxed feeling.
I would like to have gotten closer to take this picture, but felt a little uneasy using a camera in a public transit hub—even with my Palm Zire 71, which looks nothing like a camera. Earlier in the evening I had seen police patrolling the PATH station in body armor, armed with slim, matte black machine guns. This is not unusual anymore, objectively, but does not feel usual, or particularly reassuring.
Posted by Emily at April 18, 2004 06:56 PM