SKY MOORE-CLUBE

The building functioned by offering cheap to essentially free studio space, where the artists could make art and sell it in the publicly accessible gallery. The money made could then be divided and a portion recycled into the building. There was also a publicly accessible rooftop bar and a secretive, word-of-mouth night-club in the basement to also support funding the upkeep of the building. The façade and general style of the architecture is informed by the history and paintings of Antonio Canaletto, who supposedly lived opposite the site a few hundreds of years ago. The proposal's façade begins life as a limestone block, which is intended to be carved, painted and manipulated by the artists in residence over the years. The final proposal facade is a mere assumption of what could be...