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In case you didn’t make it to CUNY last week.
In this week’s New Yorker Adam Gopnik (who also recently did a round-up of the ‘new Times Square’) talks with Jane Jacobs. It’s pretty worthless, but she tells a good joke, and unneccessarily characterizes herself as vindictive for still not liking Robert Moses. I guess I have a vindictive future to look forward to.
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An Uneven Exchange of Power.
The Storefront for Art & Architecture hosts a exhibition of Armin Linke (his site has an interesting tool for building a print on demand book based on your surfing). Opening was this past weekend (sorry, wasn’t paying close enough attention).
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White Box. White Elephant.
The Telegraph repurposes a Vanitry Fair article this month about the problems with 173-176 Perry Street, the twin residential towers designed by Richard Meier. Since the lawsuits have not started to fly, nor settle, yet, it’s purposely vague about where responsbility lies. Some of the frustrations noted, including the near impossibility of relocating plumbing, lie […]
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800 feet tall, but slender.
There’s no deal yet, but Pataki has opened his wallet, and Harry Cobb took out his pencil. Goldman Sachs has spared downtown another reinterpretation of the squat, anonymous, spec office tower by Ceasar Pelli, and instead offers up a tower that “acknowledges the universe [and] infinite space” brought to us by a master of the […]
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I’ve Never Been to Long Island*.
I’ve never understood the naming strategy behind Queens West. Unlike, say, the supercilious East Willamsburg, trying to inflate the brand value of your location by explicitly associating with one of the less desirable part of the city stikes me as counterintuitive. Why not try Manhattan East? Anyway, some NJ Real Estate developer is huckstering what […]
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WTC in the news.
The recent travails of Larry Silverstein, and Pataki’s announcement this week have led to a spate of coverage on the WTC site: Is Silverstein Down to One At Zero Site? New York Observer NO MONEY, NO LOVE? The Slatin Report A Pause to Think Wall Street Journal World Trade Center Leaseholder Vows To Stick To […]
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Too bad they aren’t as elightened when it comes to their clients.
Hugh Pearman reviews the ‘Gherkin’, Norman Foster’s (sorry, Lord Foster’s) new tower for Swiss Re, insurers of the WTC. But don’t get excited. Apparently you will never be allowed in, even though a spokesperson observed that if they simply charged admission, they might be able to recoup their entire investment. Perhaps they could open a […]
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There’s only room for one self-aggrandizing George in this town.
Just as I’m taking a poke at Larry Silverman, it gets announced that the Freedom Tower will get underway this July 4, not the during the Republican Convention, as had been previously reported (via Gothamist). Likely Pataki, fearing that the Preznit is becomeing more a political liability each passing week, pushed up the sked for […]
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Jane Jacobs.
The grand dame of American architectural criticism, and who has a new book out ( curiously, Wired has Francis Fukuyama review it), lectures at City College tonight. Shepard Hall (Great Hall), Convent and 138th, 7:00 PM.
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Errata.