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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 July 15, 2006 01:23 PM