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Alamo, also known as the Astor Place Cube or simply The Cube, is an outdoor sculpture by Tony Rosenthal, located on Astor Place, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a black cube , 8 feet (2.4 m) long on each side, mounted on a corner.
The Astor Place Theatre Alamo Cube from Astor Place, looking north. The current 299-seat Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre, has been located in the landmark Colonnade Row on Lafayette Street, half a block south, since 1969.
Alamo, Astor Place, New York City, 1967. This "established Rosenthal as a master of monumental public sculpture, and something of a standard bearer of the contemporary structurist esthetic." [11] He stated: "It is…important the sculpture interact with the public." [12] The Cube "Endover", The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.
The popularity of Alamo, which was planned to be relocated to Ann Arbor after a six-month installation, [3] resulted in the commissioning of a new sculpture in its place. The initially unnamed cube is a refinement of Alamo , with a revolving mechanism that allows the sculpture to spin more easily than its counterpart in New York. [ 6 ]
The New York Mercantile Library building at Astor Place (George E. Harney, arch., 1891), once the site of the Astor Opera House, now condominiums; Alamo, a cube-shaped sculpture in Astor Place; Astor Library (1854), founded by John Jacob Astor, now housing The Public Theater
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Astor Place Tower (also known as Sculpture for Living) is a 21-story residential building located on Astor Place in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was developed by The Related Companies and designed by architect Charles Gwathmey. The building was panned by architectural critics as a symbol of gentrification ...
The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, New York City. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Bruce Mailman bought the building in 1965. [1]