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What’s that about the Libeskinds again? Oh, right, they’re short.
In a town filled with vanglorious personalities of all stripes, a large number of whom are stature challenged, how is it you can’t get through a thousand words about a Libeskind without a reference to their height? One can only assume the complex favor pulling and negotiating that went on to generate the profile of […]
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All that’s left is a dishy Gawker peice on how being an assistant there sucks.
Rounding out what seems to be an all RedHo/IKEA kind of day is the show at the Urban Center (457 Mad), Ikeagrams, which consists of alternative proposals for the area IKEA wants to take over, developed last year by grad students in Ben Pell & Ted Brown’s studio at the Syracuse (via The Architect’s Newspaper). […]
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Ikean’t wait.
We haven’t lived here so long that we can claim to have watched that many neighborhoods crest the tide of gentrification, rising our caucasian entitlement boat right along with it, but we’ve been here enough to feel frustrated that we didn’t strike decisively in this place or that. It’s a downside to being a fan […]
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This can’t be for us, it’s far too nice.
Though we aspire to exclusive previews and hot items like any good proto-media source, for now we have to rely on chance for leading edge news. And so it was, walkng by the local office of Allied Works, the folks working on the renovation of 2 Columbus Circle (the putative new home to the Museum […]
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Pellucid.
The first memory I really have of reading architecture criticism that resonated with me was Michael Sorkin calling Paul Goldberger a dick. Well, okay, it wasn’t exactly that. Maybe he was speculating wistfully on the time when we wouldn’t have to listen to his turgid enamations at the Times, in rather graphic terms (please, if […]
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Maybe they are worried if they rename the subways, no one will figure out how to get there.
Providing more ammo that they aren’t a fusty, out-of-touch barnacle on the shell of New York culture, the Met is once again threatening to withhold support of the renovation of the Lincoln Center. And, again, the renovation of the ostensibly most important urban arts center in the country might be stalled by a dispute over […]
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First, they have to figure out how to cancel Dr. Zizmor’s contract.
Sure, the whole concept of this is gross, particularly given the sad state of local, state and federal support (let’s hear it one more time people; if you don’t think a $250 billion dollar highway bill isn’t a car subsidy, they you should get all your ‘market price’ produce from Europe) that make such recommendations […]
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LMDC to downtown: Don’t throw out the HEPA filters yet.
Someone, in the form of Rep. Jerry Nadler, has finally started asking some hard question about the Deutsche Bank demolition. The 130 Liberty Street structure, which was damaged (though, more appropriately, should be listed as ‘destroyed’ since that will be the eventual state) in the WTC attacks, was purchased by the LMDC this year, and […]
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Magic Carpet Ride.
A friend who moved to town a number of years ago, intending to live out one of the various myths of New York living (in his case, showing up with the proverbial $100 and the clothes on his back — a gutsy move no doubt, but one that was abetted by our couch and steady […]
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All’s fare when courting the LIE vote.