All The Buildings In New York is a personal project of James Gulliver Hancock. An illustrator from Australia now based between Sydney, and New York. This project stems from an interest in obsession and recording of places. New York holds a special place in everyone’s heart, romanticized from Seasame Street and old movies like Rear Window and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

As his website reveals, Hancock “panics that he may not be able to draw everything in the world… at least once.” Since Kindergarten, he’s been obsessed with drawing in meticulous detail (or, as he tells the Atlantic Cities, with a mix of “technicality and whimsy”), a characteristic this native Australian brought with him when he moved to Brooklyn, New York.

What began as a blog, All The Buildings In New York, to keep track of his many sketches of New York’s architecture (particularly the brownstones), is now a book (All The Buildings in New York: That I’ve Drawn So Far – which includes about 500 drawings). Organized by neighborhoods, it features New York architectural icons from the past and present, including the Chrysler Building, the Flatiron, Apple’s 5th Avenue store, as well as the everyday buildings that make up New York’s unique cityscape.

Let’s see some drawers.

1 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY

CHELSEA, NEW YORK, NY

222 WEST 23RD STREET, NEW YORK, NY

435 WEST 23RD STREET, NEW YORK, NY

210 LAFAYETTE STREET, NEW YORK, NY

163 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY

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Links:

http://jamesgulliverhancock.com/

http://allthebuildingsinnewyork.com/new/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789324679/gedit-20

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