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They do it over there, but they don’t do it here.
It’s not just the east side that can feature vaporware the in the $2 million plus category, even though we might not feature such plush Kohler fixtures (but, really, Kohler? Remember when they were ‘The Bold Look of Kohler?’ Please. I’m sure TriBeCa is all about Grohe). Over here, we have the numerically similar 116 […]
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Pay me? Pay you!
The Observer has the best dirt on the Libeskind/Silverstein brouhaha. Via Lock. And Felix weighs in as well. We think it’s sort of redundant to make these notes (since it’t highly likely you read them first anyway), but in case you missed it, here you go.
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More on 2 Columbus Circle.
The Washington Post does a nice round up on the redevelopment of 2 Columbus Circle. It adds a little to the conversation from last week, mostly in the form of a some better quotes. And there’s a little bit of its interesting history, though they failed to note that in the late 90s the Dahesh […]
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NYC market too rich for everyone’s blood.
Crain’s reports in this week’s (print) edition that Amec, a large British construction/ engineering services concern, is selling its New York office as the last step in withdrawing from the U.S. market, due to concerns about “risk and low margins.” Though Crain’s cites a press release from Amec, none was turned up in a cursory […]
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Larry, that’s not why I called it the ‘Freedom Tower.’
Any hint that the creation of the Freedom Tower is (and maybe not even was) a collaboration was effectively erased by a holiday weekend report that Daniel Libeskind’s office had submitted a bill to Larry Silverstein for $800,000 for continuing design work after the his site plan ($2.25 million in fees) was completed. Silverstein countered […]
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Can you spare something?
As I was leaving the subway this week, I saw a man going to work. I knew he was because I know where, and when, he works. He is a neighborhood fixture, and perhaps you have seen him: tall, gaunt, somewhat wan, he hands out flyers for women’s fashions, typically on Seventh Avenue in the […]
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And I’ve always been afraid of what a Christopher Alexander house would look like.
In a victory for white, ‘middle-class’ people (that is, Manhattanites who can only afford to own their country home, but cower in fear of the losing their rent stablized apartment), the West Village Houses will become an ‘affordable co-op.’ The West Village Houses, located in the Morton/Bank Street area (west of Washington Street), were apparently […]
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Your Tripping on Your Own Feet Starts Here.
Apparently a foot squirmed out from underneath the boulder of self-sufficiency Congress had placed on the failing figure of Amtrak (well, the parts that hadn’t been already covered by the slow, expensive, and very oddly-marketed Acela fiasco), and instread of waiting for some highway happy representative from the Sun Belt to do the honors, Amtrak […]
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The Oylmpic Village falls plainly from the Mayne.
(alternative title: Do you think ROTOndi is pissed yet?) NYC2012 went all patriotic, but not local, picking Morphosis as the architect for the Olympic Village, dissing locals Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawinkson (you’d be inclinded to say, ‘Hey, kids, brighten up the renderings!’ but that doesn’t seem to be a lesson Thom Mayne has ever […]
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In light of current events.