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July 20, 2006
Ugly Architecture in Stages of Development
New Born
Teenager
Adult
Posted by jmarston at 06:29 PM | Comments (4)
Stoop Style, 1940's
flea photo, unknown.
Posted by jmarston at 06:20 PM
Stockholm City Hall, July 1954
Built by Ragnar Östberg, completed in 1923 using 8 million bricks. flea photo.
Posted by jmarston at 06:14 PM
Toll the Inbound Narrows
See the traffic heading on 278 East? Tell me again why every particulate spewing truck takes the Verrazano, to the BQE, to Manhattan & Brooklyn? No toll perhaps? The only no tolled entrance to the boros? Thanks, thanks so much for sending that traffic thru Brooklyn.
Posted by jmarston at 05:41 PM | Comments (2)
Attack of the Useless Awning, Pt 6
In case you missed Attack of the Useless Awning Part One, the One that started it all.
Posted by jmarston at 05:35 PM
The Anti-Sit: Parallel Impressions
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The Anti-Sit: Railing
Posted by jmarston at 05:27 PM
The Anti-Sit: Impaled Corner
Posted by jmarston at 05:22 PM
The Anti-Sit: Mickey D's
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The Anti-Sit: Dual Sadists
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The Anti-Sit: Redundant
Posted by jmarston at 05:02 PM
July 15, 2006
Sneaks
New York Construction July cover story focuses on the art of reconstruction in the NY-NJ area. Back in early June I pointed to the proposed Pauper Lunatic Asylum project by Becker + Becker on Roosevelt Island, which NY Construction news focuses on the progress and dimensions of the project. "The most noteworthy aspect of the old building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a central "flying" circular staircase that Charles Dickens wrote about it in his travelogue, American Notes." StreetsBlog has great post on NYC noise, and just how bad its grates on New Yorkers. John Massengale has a wonderful post on the auto slum design of the Williamsburg Bridge off ramps. A new book, and photo exposition on Staten Islands maritime history, focusing on the Caddell Drydock in West Brighton SI. The Urban Center is hosting an opening reception on July 18th from 6-8pm. ForgottenNY has a nice post on the lost theatres of 42nd St.
W. Rybczynski analyzes the failure of 'experimental architecture' in Denver, taking serious shots at buildlngs by the likes of Libeskind and Graves. London's mayor, Red Ken, asks the question radical alt-weeklys seem to ask every couple of years, why the hell isn't London (New York) its own city state? A fine new collection of perspectives on the contemporary American landscape of use and reuse, from the Princeton Architectural Press, Drosscape. PAP also has an interesting new book, Building with Earth: Design and Technique. I missed this LA Times review of the new Guthrie in Minneapolis by Nouvel, gushing, "And in the end there's something refreshing about Nouvel's insistence that architecture is, in some fundamental way, a poetic exercise". Arcspace provides a phenomenal tour of the site and building, with blueprint to boot. Go Guthrie. You may think its tough in New York to build a modern town house in a historic district, well you've never been to Santa Fe, where a couple found graffiti scrawled on their new home, but, "The spray-painter was not a juvenile delinquent, the couple quickly realized, but someone who objected to the design of the building, comparing it to Nazi architecture." Is California ready for a bullet train, between say LA & SF? SF Cityscape asks the question the Northeastern Megalopolis should be asking as well. GSD Magazine on the state of Dutch Architecture. Thailand's winning Tsunami Memorial design from the Spanish firm, Disc-O Architecture. My London fave, Diamond Geezer, visits the Barbican. SHoP's latest project. Architecture Week on sustainable housing prototypes.
Posted by jmarston at 01:23 PM
July 13, 2006
Rally Against Ratner
July 16 at Grand Army Plaza. The newest renderings put forward by Gehry.
Posted by jmarston at 01:00 PM
Out on the Tendrils
StreetsBlog covers the exit of DOT Bike Program head Andrew Vesselinovitch, which as you may imagine, was due to the tremendously unresponsive environment DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall has created for any form of transport that doesn't run on petrol. BikeBlog covers the rampant harassment and intimidation of Critical Mass riders by NYPD. Its simply amazing that City Hall will spend this much time & money on ticketing and harassing bikers, while Hit & Run fatalities continue to climb. Blog like you give a damn has a nice photo post on a earth buidling project of Slum Dwellers International. Pruned draws attention to the lovely photographs of John Brinton Hogan. Environmentally sound real estate porn at Green Homes for Sale. The suburban agenda, what about the urban agenda? Not in a suburban House of Reps. Neat windows in this cool photo at City Specific. An interesting 8 hour photo of 57th street. Explore the 33 permenant sculptures of Nordland, in Northern Norway.
Posted by jmarston at 12:32 PM
Boxed
Wow, what a huge suprise. Another big hug for the DOT. As reported by NY1, "The study of ten of the busiest intersections in Manhattan found 3,000 drivers in a nine-hour period “blocked the box" and not a single motorist received a ticket."
Posted by jmarston at 12:22 PM
The Anti-Sit: Glam
Posted by jmarston at 12:19 PM
July 07, 2006
Lame
Another reason BPC sucks.
Posted by jmarston at 11:32 PM | Comments (2)
Fort Jay
Fort Jay, on Governors Island, is simply an amazing piece of architecture. Lets hope NYC can appropriately highlight the phenomenal site. Finished in 1798, the star shaped military structure was peppered with 110 cannons, and the grounds bare of vegetation, protecting New York from an attack by sea. Forgotten NY's Jay page.
Posted by jmarston at 08:37 PM