# Yellow trees

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2016-11-26
**Categories:** architect-developer, architecture, building-wrap, construction-wrap, ddg, ddg-partners, design, design-development, japanese-art, japanese-artist, real-estate-development, uncategorized, vertical-integration, yayoi-kusama
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/yellow-trees

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I took this picture on a recent trip to New York: I liked the mid-block building and so I wanted to document it. That’s what I do when I walk around a city. When I went back to research the project later on, I then discovered that it was developed by DDG Partners, which I have been following for years. I think they do terrific work and I love their vertically-integrated approach to real estate development. Two years ago I mentioned them in a post called: 3 architects operating as developers. If you’d like to learn more about the project, you can do that here. It’s called 345MEATPACKING. What I want to talk about today is how they wrapped the building during construction. Working with the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama – who at the time had an exhibition going on at the Whitney – they created a 120-foot reproduction of her painting Yellow Trees. Here’s a video of what that looked like (c. 2012). If you can’t see the video below, click here. [vimeo 79792779 w=640 h=360] What a great idea. But don’t tell anyone. I want to steal the idea for one of my projects.

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