| marc kehoe | catalogue of oil paintings and projects |
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| VISIONARY PROJECTS |
SPOOKHOUSE MURAL |
SPOOKHOUSE RIDERS |
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| IMAGINE CONEY |
| I recently had the opportunity to submit some ideas to the Municipal Art Society's IMAGINE CONEY project. MAS has dome great work making suggestions for the re-devolopment of Coney—as something other than condo towers. |
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HALF MOON TOWER, WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING
New York City and Coney Island restore
world skyscraper pre-eminence with the proposal
for The Half Moon Tower.
At 180 stories, The Half Moon Tower will eclipse the
Burj Dubai and reign as the tallest building in the world.
Drawing its design from the classic (and now lost)
historic Half Moon Hotel, The Tower is planned for
The Reigelmann Boardwalk at 18th Street.
Dwarfing Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower,The Parachute Jump
(see illustration), The Tower will be visible
from Pittsfield, MA.
"The Half Moon Tower rhythmically and radically
employs design elements from the original
structure to create a new post-post-post modern vernacular
that is certain to return Coney Island to the world's
architectural spotlight and to raise the entertainment/resort
architectural bar in almost every sense"
—The New York Times
The multi-use structure will include
over 6000 luxury condominiums (including the 65 million dollar
decaplex luxury Spookarama-themed penthouse), the world's
largest salt water jacuzzi, 7 all-weather retail malls: The Luna,
The Dreamland, The Tilyou, The Cropsey, The Kister, and
The Zigun and the Ruby's, more than 8000 luxury hotel suites
in the Abe Reles Arms, and a revenue producing observation
deck that will afford a vew of Western Portugal, weather permitting.
Marc Kehoe, NYC, 2008 |
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DREAMLAND TOWER, HISTORIC RECONSTRUCTION LUXURY CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX
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LINEAR LUNA
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Taking its inspiration from both Corbusier's 'Ville Radieuse' and the classic Coney architecture of Luna Park, Linear Luna would be amost ambitious plan for redevelopment. Requiring the employment of eminent domain and the demolition of all structures from Stillwell to Ocean Parkway and from the Reigelmann Boardwalk to the creek, Linear Coney masterfully blends preservationism and modernism in one massive project.
The aesthetic dissonance created by the recreation of original Luna Park structures and the strict modernist multi-use high rises has been called masterful.
Running along the Boardwalk for more than a mile, the repeating structures house amusements, attractions, suideshows, off off Broadway theaters, petting zoos, The NY Aquarium, restaurants, retail outlets, farmer's markets, health spas and indoor sports facilities, and, at the restored and dredged Coney Island Creek, multiple re-creations of the original Shoot-the-Chutes. The high-rise structures (highest 93 stories) are composed of big-box chain retail at the ground floor level, corporate 'open floor' office space on the floors above, and thousands of multi-level condo apartments above.
Marc Kehoe, NYC 2008 |
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IT'S SPOOKY—12 x 17 foot mural, exterior enamel on plywood, 1986 (destroyed) |
| The mural was on the east side of The Spookhouse, (operated by The Coney Island Hysterical Society and Richard Eagan) Bowery at Schweikert's Walk(or Nathan's Alley) |
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| SPOOKHOUSE RIDERS
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| A selection of 20 canvasses depicting riders on the Spookhouse dark ride. 1987 |
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oil on canvas 24 " x 36 " |
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oil on canvas 24 " x 36 " |
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