ABOUT
Museum of the Phantom City is a public art project designed by Cheng+Snyder with generous support from the Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship.
CHENG+SNYDER Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder are founders of Cheng+Snyder, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York City and Philadelphia. Brett teaches design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Irene is a doctoral candidate in architectural history at Columbia University. They received the 2008-2009 Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship in Information and Communications.
PROJECT COLLABORATORS
Ray Cha, website programming and user interface
Michelle Chang, research and project development
Noah Keating, iPhone programming and interactive design
Olivia Wright, research and project development
Cheng+Snyder gratefullly acknowledges the following for their contributions and input: Alexander Arroyo, Inbar Barak, Jessica Blaustein, Adam Dayem, Chris Dierks, Sam Feldman, Abby Hamlin, Jamie Hand, Brad Horn, Joan Ockman, Brian Schulman, Deborah Tchoudjinoff,Liz Shearer, Christy Cheng, Elizabeth Hodges, Maria Berman, Bernard Tschumi, Alie Thomer, Steven Holl, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Michael Sorkin.
For more information on the Musuem of the Phantom City, email: info at phantomcity dot org.
NEWS
2009 / 10
Phantom City on WNYC. Meet Up, October 31 at Bryant Park
Museum of the Phantom City featured on Urban Omnibus
Cityroom Blog Nytimes.com - An iPhone App To Tour the City that Never Was
Flavorwire - iPhone App For Architecture Geeks
The L Magazine - New iPhone App Offers Tours of Unbuilt New York
PSFK - NYC's Future Seen From the Past
Curbed - Welcome to Your Alternate Universe
NYC Through an Alternate Lens: See What the Big Apple Could Have Been
Brett Snyder interview with New York Foundation for the Arts
