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Tag Archives: New York
Christo, homage to a life
The artist Christo has died. One must not, they say, speak ill of the dead. I am not speaking ill of the dead man but of his art. Those who bruise easily may stop reading here, but Christo’s death will … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Video
Tagged art, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, New York, Stephen Colbert, The Gates, Video, Wrapped Reichstag
8 Comments
For one- or two-way streets?
On a recent sojourn in (and above) Manhattan, Steve Mouzon sparked a Facebook conversation about the merits and demerits of one- and two-way streets. It unfolded at such a high level of thoughtfulness about streets (of either ilk) from so … Continue reading
More for my groaning shelf
Here is the UK Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright’s critique of Hudson Yards, the “largest and most expensive private real estate project in U.S. history.” His article is called “Horror on the Hudson: New York’s $25bn architectural fiasco,” and it … Continue reading
HQ2 twofers and Providence
Two major eastern cities have won the HQ2 sweepstakes, and you have to wonder whether the twofers – Long Island City and Crystal City, outside Manhattan and D.C. – both realize they got half a loaf. How soon will it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Uncategorized
Tagged Amazon, Branding, CommerceRI, Crystal City, HQ2, Long Island City, New York, Providence RI, Urban Planning, Washington
9 Comments
Corbu’s rant at Neimeyer
Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who died in 2012 at age 104, is best known for designing Brasília, the sterile über-modernist new capital city that arose in the Brazilian outback in something like three years in the late 1950s. Its … Continue reading
Steampunk vid of New York
Came across this film, “The Old New World,” of New York and bits of Boston and Washington, D.C. (the Capitol), in about 1931, on the Kuriositas website. It is the Old New World Project run by Alexey Zakharoff. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Video
Tagged Alexey Zakharoff, Boston, New York, Steampunk, The Old New World, Washington
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Stern’s 250 W81st tops out
Robert A. M. Stern’s latest Manhattan apartment building at 250 West 81st St., on a corner of Broadway, recently topped out. That means the top of the building’s steel structure of girders has been achieved. It is 209 feet tall, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Uncategorized
Tagged 250 West 81st, New York, Penn Station, RAMSA, Rebuild Penn Station, Robert A.M. Stern
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Stuart Little, Gramercy Park
Here is another sketch by Garth Williams from E.B. White’s Stuart Little. The lovelorn mouse is about to leave the Little residence in search of Margalo, a lady bird who has fled. A pigeon (“the weird pigeon,” my little boy … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Cities, E.B. White, Garth Williams, Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York, Stuart Little, Urban Sociology
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