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All the underpaid work you can handle.
The Architect’s Newspaper — which, if you don’t already subscribe yet, you should; they have reviews of lectures fer chrissake’s (Moneo and dal Co in the most recent issue) and where are you going to find that kind of editorial rigor these days? Metropolis? Hah! — has a new online offering, a roundup of competitions. […]
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The new diaspora, TriBeCa skate punks.
After a good year or two of advertisement on its facade and one notice as being the hot new thing, 36 Hudson Street, henceforth known as the Mohawk Atelier, commenced construction this week. It is being developed by Joseph Pell Lombardi, who has done realtively innocuous residential conversions forever. Excepting the social/economic practice of this […]
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Another fancy glass turnstile.
The MTA announced preliminary plans of a new transit ‘center’ at Fulton Street today (to be accompanied by a presentation this afternoon; link at left). And, surprise! It’s a vaguely organic shape of shimmery glass. The initial renderings (see the MTA docs for details) highlighted the glass box more than the ‘oculus’ that surmounts it. […]
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Of course it’s significant? Didn’t you see us ignoring it all those years?
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is working hard to eschew their rep that they exist solely to validate the surly prejudices of blue-haired Southern gentlewomen against modernism by adding 2 Columbus Circle to its endangered buildings list. The American Crafts Musuem (ACM), recently rechristened the Musuem for Arts and Design (MAD), a strategically incisive […]
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Downtown to Jane Jacobs: Drop Dead.
The Daily News reports that the number one concern of downtown residents is a lack of on-street parking. It is true that a disproportionate number of spaces are allocated to city employees (giving them untaxed, uncalculated benefit that is worth $6,000 a year in some areas) relative to other neighborhoods. [Insert boilerplate rant about the […]
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Thousands of architecture fans, now out of pocket.*
Hot on the heels of Lock’s nifty new venture, Archinect goes and gets itself a face lift. Sporting the Media Temple Mafia treatment, it stands as the best resource of however you want to call the ‘Not-Architectural Record’ crowd. Almost ten years after Princeton Archtiectural Press gave it a go with Architecture Online (a private […]
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Paulson Ex Machina.
Everyone one goes home happy, and in the shade. Goldman Sachs is apparently moving quickly to secure the goodwill of the BPCA (Battery Park City Authority), CB1, PS 234, and any other acronym-rich semi-public authority by issuing a catch-all million dollar payoff. Follow the money: Goldman wants to build a new tower on this side […]
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FutureShack.
So far not garnering any local coverage (near as I can tell) the Washington Post does a fair job of writing up a new exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt, as part of their Solos series. This installment is modular, highly portable housing unit by Sean Godsell entitled FutureShack. Based primarily on shipping containers (what is it […]
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$690/sq ft.