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June 10, 2005
Friday the 17th
And here is London, reducing the Capital's road deaths by 21 per cent, in one year. The Mayor - London's first - Ken Livingstone, has made it happen with his Transport Strategy. Come on Mike, dont let Moses ghost push you around. Reign in the streets... The City Council made a nice gesture in March, but its going to take alot of intiative. 18 people have been killed this year already. A biker was killed yesterday on on one of the cities "preferred bike routes", which of course, does not have a bike lane. Good One. Before we put in light rail lets get our bus lanes enforced. Truck traffic is out of control.
Most of the food service on 42nd has frontside delivery everyday.
Our bike lanes, which we have a pittance of to begin with, are just double-parking lanes in most places.
One of the few remaining Mitchell-Lama complexes - a 500 unit 520,000-sf apartment complex at 96/97th St and Amsterdam - was sold "for a sum in excess of $115 million" to a new owner this week according to a Globe St news item. You can be sure big battles now loom on the horizon, the owner was quoted as saying, "It's exciting to be creating value." Just looking to ignite the dust of that powederkeg.
New York Construction News has an great June cover story, Top 20 Largest Regional projects for 2004-2005. Topping the list of projects started... dredging the Port of New York/New Jersey shipping channels, to a depth of 50ft at a cost of $1.6bn. Topping the list of completed projects... the 53-story, $631m, One Beacon Ct (731 Lex Ave), Bloomy's new HQ.
Top 10 Completed [.pdf]
Top 10 Started [.pdf]
Tadao Ando wins the UIA Gold Medal, reported by Architecture Week.
New audio from Architecture Radio, John King arch crit from the SF Chronicle, on California Contemp Architecture.
Fantastic post focused on China, from blogger City of Sound.
Touch Radio Chris Watson, field recording artist, Recorded in April 2005 on The Galapagos Islands.
Posted by jmarston at June 10, 2005 09:57 AM