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June 20, 2006
Around the Circle
neat little number on 20th St, Brooklyn.
Much like Saturdays post, we found this buried in a Washington Post article on New York's quality of life campaigns under Bloomberg: "Manhattan has 25 percent more banks and 80 percent more national pizza chains than it had five years ago." The little known plans to build a superhighway parallel to I-35, a massive 4 football field wide ubermover connecting the NAFTA countries. New York's Scandinavia House is hosting a summer long exhibition on the building possibilites of wood, originally organized for the Venice Biennale. Interesting tour from the Independent of London's Southwark borough. New York's Center for an Urban Future releases a report urging Mayor Bloomberg to get behind plans to develop two government warehouses in Sunset Park, bringing 2 million sq ft of commerical space back online. Taskforce for Megacities release newsletter number 5. Toronto based Pugly Awards release the voting results on this years set of new buildings. The Cultural Landscape Foundations draws attention to a hithero unknown upstate New York site, Russel Wrights Manitoga in Garrison New York, where he designed and edited the natural landscape with great care over the course of many years. Robert J Shiller, of Yale, claims the current housing market is not only the biggest boom on record, but the only other true precedent is the 1890's. A consumer group goes pit bull on the real estate industry, citing a number of points that demonstrate how this 'cartel' manages to screw consumers. The teardown wars sweep across the States. ForgottenNY covers the Norwegian Day Parade in Brooklyn New York. Yes, us Scandanavians have some history in Sweet Brooklyn. The Scandanavian East Coast Museum in Brooklyn New York.
Posted by jmarston at June 20, 2006 10:16 AM