Peter Wegner

Since 2004 Peter Wegner works on the series Buildings Made Of Sky, which consists of shots from New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The chosen section always shows a piece of heaven above street canyons at different times of the year and of the day. Because of the about-face rotation, the viewer focuses the heaven-section - the particular "building made of sky".

"There are two Manhattans: one is a city of tall buildings; the other is a city of no buildings. This city begins where the architecture leaves off. It's a city cast in the die of Manhattan, a perfect complement to the built city, a kind of anti-Manhattan.
This parallel city has an architecture all its own. it is the architecture of air, the space defined by the edges of everything else, its map redrawn by pigeons and pedestrians, cranes, trucks, taxis. It's the city we assume but cannot name.
In this city, the buildings are made of sky. It's the Manhattan that isn't - without which there could be no Manhattan."
Publications to the series BUILDINGS MADE OF SKY is available.

Peter Wegner at TEDx Talk New York