Misplaced New York City Landscapes

New York’s skyline is so dense, so relentlessly vertical, that even its most famous silhouettes start to blur into the crowd. Artist and photographer Anton Repponen wondered what would happen if you lifted one out entirely — took a landmark from its native tangle of scaffolding, taxis, and passersby and set it down somewhere with nothing around it at all.

The result is Misplaced New York, a photographic series by Anton Repponen that relocates eight of Manhattan’s most recognizable buildings — captured in-camera, no AI involved — into empty deserts, cracked mud flats, and lunar-looking plains.

“New York City landmarks have been misplaced, their current location unknown. Photographs of unclear origin appear to show them scattered across the globe — on sand dunes, mud flats, ‘lunar’ plains, and rocky beaches. Nobody knows exactly what happened or why.”

Anton Repponen, Misplaced New York

Metropolitan Opera

Chrysler Building

Guggenheim Museum

Whitney Museum

United Nations Headquarters

8 Spruce Street

IAC Building

Cooper Union

See the full project at misplaced.design, and more of Anton Repponen’s work at repponen.com.

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More surreal architecture on Moss & Fog: the Gaudí skyscraper New York never built, and the utterly minimal Ribbon Chapel.

Edited by Ben VanderVeen · About Moss & Fog