James Gulliver Hancock loves to draw. He loves to draw so much that he is a bit panicked by the thought that be might not have enough time to draw every single building in New York City.
What started out as a blog full of meticulous drawings of brownstones and towers has now turned into the aptly titled book: All the Buildings in New York: That I’ve Drawn So Far (Universe). The book is grouped by neighbourhoods and is chock full of beautiful illustrations of well known landmarks.
Hancock continues to draw; turns out there are a lot of buildings in New York City.
Via Atlantic Cities.
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A Sisyphean task worthy of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (http://www.hhgproject.org/entries/wowbagger.html).
But seriously, it is a very big job. And the limits are interesting: what counts as a building, and what counts as New York City?