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A $2300 studio? No, the Big House.
Last year, the United States spent $57,000,000,000 (that’s billions) on prisons and jails. Figuring the inmate population to be reasonably flat since 2002, that’s about $28,000 per inmate, or $2300 per month. For a studio not much larger than one you might find in Manhattan. Meanwhile, over at HUD, which has a comparatively measly $38,000,000,000, […]
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CB1: Left Side this Week. Right Side next.
Oh, the difference West Street makes. Goldman Sachs is making noises (read: fishing for tax abatements) about ‘relocating.’ Seems the behemoth they are building in Jersey City, which they are aren’t even sure they need (I’m working from memory here; there was an article when this story broke in December to the effect that much […]
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If only we had developers with as much sagacity.
I was going to say designers, but we do have some of them. And since the idea that the government help house its citizenry is viewed as sedetion, I can’t point fingers there either. Jonathan Glancey takes a look a Prince Charles’ nostalgically-correct suburb, Poundbury. And in the second para manages more wit than we […]
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Bklyn Designs Events.
Events at St. Ann’s Warehouse. 4 PM Living with Lightness: The Creation of a Pure Aesthetic Michael Gabellini, Gabellini Associates (apparently this aesthetic includes a lot of Jil Sander stores). 6:30 PM Enrique Norten in Brooklyn. Enrique Norten, Principal, TEN Arquitectos, will speak about his recent work and his firm’s winning entry in the Brooklyn […]
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Creating Cranbrook.
A two day symposium, sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt and the Architectural League, that investigates the role of campus planning and architecture in the creation and reinforcement of identity, mission, and a sense of place. In particular, we will look at Cranbrook’s comprehensive building plan and hear from the architects that realized it. Speakers inclued Billie […]
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Buy You, For You.
More proof that Brooklyn is the real deal and Manhattan is all fugazy (see, we even use tired slurs like those has-beens, The Knicks, who got their hats handed to them by a team… moving to Brooklyn. What symmetry.) is the appearance of — get ready for it — a furniture show. Since you have […]
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One Event, One Payout.
A partial verdict was returned today in the insurance case filed by Larry Silverstein against the major insurers of the World Trade Center. Though deliberations continue in the case against Swiss Re, the largest insurer of the complex, in every other instance, the attacks were deemed a ‘single event.’ The result likely will be a […]
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Architectural Immanence.
The Architectural League presents a lecture by Rafael Moneo. At The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 6:30.
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CHARASodora House.
Development doesn’t get any better than this. Lockhart Steele noted a couple days ago a recent Villager article about a proposed residential building on East 8th, on the former site of P.S. 64/CHARAS/El Bohio. Today, Gawker adds an update that includes the pro-dorm site as well as the opposition . Dig into LS’s links if […]
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It takes an (Olympic) Village.