The Vessel at Hudson Yards is now a butt plug—and then some

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Wolfgang & Hite’s photos

Art imitates life. And life is often somehow connected to sex. Next, add in the wicked sense of humor from design studio Wolfgang & Hite.

That’s how the Hudson Square Sex Toy Collection was born.

Yes, the entire “28 acres (11 hectares)” of the site is purpose-built to get you out.

Also known as XXX-HYthe team used a one-inch-to-100-foot scale and silicone to recreate this famous complex, which represents several concepts or perspectives in a wave of high-end architectural developments…

• “Using humor to criticize the city and combining high-end design with pop culture”
• “Masturbation is a great metaphor for the latest wave of developments in New York City.”

• “There’s a lot to like about New York’s recent building boom, but the city and developers have been competing against each other for decades, so naturally we want to join in the fun.” (WG+H)

• “Challenges critics’ perceived ‘placelessness’ and ‘mindless materialism'”

Many buildings have been perceived as phallic — whether intentionally or not (and while taller buildings take up less space, you can’t deny that people tend to have a “mine is bigger and better than yours” mentality). That’s why the team chose landmark buildings, Deliberately exaggerating their suggestion and making them more abstract than exact reproductions

Interesting facts: One of their slogans is “A luxurious real estate dildo experience.” Furthermore, the idea was originally inspired by architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who commented, “Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill’s most striking contribution is a pair of skyscrapers that, viewed from the side, look remarkably like sex toys.”

Sadly, the 87-year-old woman didn’t live to see her comments come to fruition.

What’s in XXX-HY’s bag?

55 Hudson Yards – 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 square meters)²) building, by Eugene Cohen and Kevin Roach, It was originally planned to be the world’s first permanent healthcare market and education center, but they pulled out of the deal. Now it’s an office building.

Blood vessel (aka Stairs in New York) Thomas Heatherwick It is a 1.5 inch ribbed butt plug. Personally, this is definitely not a butt plug for beginners.

50 Hudson Yards – Standard office building, mainly composed of Mitsui Fudosan (90% of the building) and several other banks.

15 Hudson Yards – Designer Diller Scofidio RenfroChief Architect and Rockwell Group. The building is designed as a high-end residential building with 285 apartments and an aquatic center. It is also known as theCorset.You can see the sales pitch/page here.

10+30 Hudson Yards – Building 30, which has the highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere (as of this writing), is the headquarters for global media and entertainment company WarnerMedia and its subsidiaries HBO, CNN, and Warner Bros. Building 10 is another office hub.

this shed – (also known as the Bloomberg Building) is a building consisting of Diller Scofidio & Renfro. It was designed Clitoral Stimulator.

The downside to all this?

It’s more of a display piece and isn’t actually for sale yet.

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Would you try any of these toys, even the rectangular dildos? Share your thoughts and feelings in the comments.