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August 26, 2006
Granulated, Ironed, Cemented, & Vaulted
Part of the Sense in the City series.
Posted by jmarston at 04:01 PM
August 24, 2006
Midtown Tree Water
Not really.
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August 18, 2006
A Favorite Place
Flea postcard of beauty, correspondence below.
La Tremblade, Quai de l'Atelier
November 12, 1924
"At Summer we take a walk every day after supper all along this road and river. it is named the alleis of sighs. (is it not a nice name)"
Posted by jmarston at 09:19 PM
August 17, 2006
Dirtiest Building in Brooklyn
Yes, this is a white building. Con Ed is the tenant. 'Preciate it Con. Birds Eye.
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Outclicks
Going in the Links of Note Category. The Gardens of London on The Morning News, ultra small homes make Time Magazine, Utopian Modernism in London, a great article on Archinect. Some of the most compelling NYC street photography I've ever seen, on Matt Weber's Urban Photos site. Visit the Shaker City of Peace in MA & the last 4 Shakers on Earth in ME. New (Trad)Urbanism manifest in this photo tour of the New Town development in MO. The Situationists interpreted by Brian Massumi on Space and Culture, hangin monastary on gravestmor.
Posted by jmarston at 08:58 PM
August 16, 2006
Wayne New Jersey
Sunnybank House & driveway predemolition, home of writer Albert Terhune.
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Walker Eats Local Church
Posted by jmarston at 06:39 PM
378-82 Baltic
The developer Kwong T. Seung has broken ground on an 11 story - 119ft - monster on Baltic btw Smith/Hoyt. Sure to become an icon of everything wrong with aesthetics & scale in South Brooklyn's devolpment boom, as well as a fine critique of the Planning Department's need for a design review board that looks at more than just the engineering specs. This beast is set too include 49 basement parking spaces & 36 dwelling units. The lot originally sold for a paltry $9 million. Brownstoner covered the news of this project back in May, and some of the comments illuminate the conversational famine of Pro/Con 'development', leading to a real lack of discussion surrounding the Developer-As-of-Right and Growth-as-of-Right attitude the city has taken to the reinvestment of Brooklyn. Perhaps a qualitative perspective could bring a more nuanced approach to the pingponged Property Rights vs NIMBY's . Anyways, save any sea change in the renderings or plans for the site, Transfer is sure to follow any smell as it rises nearly 60 feet above its neighbors.
Check this Over at Curbed. Totally tell me again that the Lower East Side will keep its character when all the towers are finished?
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August 15, 2006
State Renaissance Court
Transfer's favorite Brooklyn blogger Brownstoner made a request today, & being that we love the Brownstoner, we thought we'd oblige. ... & some shots of the same site back in May.
Posted by jmarston at 03:47 PM
August 14, 2006
Airport Arrival September 1960
Flea market finds, on the Arrival ... some thoughts on airport architecture from the Transfer archives, circa 2004.
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Brooklyn Central Library II
... & how things looked back in March.
Posted by jmarston at 04:20 PM
One Prospect Park
... & how things looked back in January.
Posted by jmarston at 04:14 PM
The Anti-Sleep: Overpassed Out
Posted by jmarston at 03:49 PM
August 12, 2006
Hampton Roads Tour
I recently had the oppurtunity to explore (sea & land) Hampton Roads, in southeastern Virginia. One of the Unitied States most active Maritime centers, & perhaps the finest natural harbor in the world, virtued by the confluence of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth Rivers passing into Chesapeake Bay. In 1620 the first shipyard opened in the deep ice free waters of Hampton Roads, and since it has come to be the largest of just about all things Pirate. The Hampton Roads complex of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News is home to the largest Naval base in the world. The third biggest container facility in the US, as well as massive rail & ship complex for the export of Appalachian coal. Thats not too mention the largest ship building & repair center in the country, with a variety of associated maritime industries. The first dry dock in the Western Hemisphere was built in Norfolk in 1833, beating out Boston by the narrowest of margins.
Its a sublime joy to see such massive architecture active on the waterfront. Economies of scale that intimidate and inspire. Its easy to relish the industrial expression when you see New York's erased relationship to its waterfronts. In New York, where dry docks once stood, Ikeas and rollerblade paths now pass.
Military Industrial Complex; Car Boats, Supply Ships, Drudge Barges, Ton Tons, and Dry Docks. The Naval base doesn't encourage drive-bys but their presence is everywhere. Below are just a smattering of images such.
Further down appear snaps of the homes of sea capitans, merchants, lawyers, & slaves; all rich in architectural history. Along with the very Dutch foundings of Ghent, an older neighborhood on a small canal in Norfolk, which has a number of buildings that were brought over from Holland, Portsmouth has a fantastic historic district. The waters have been sites of naval battles during the Revolutionary War, & the Battle of the Ironsides during the Civil War. There are also plenty of Old Sea stories that permeate the area. The shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras, sunk by the dangerous Diamond Shoals; these ever shifting sand & rock bars formed from the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current mixing so close shore. It just sends me out looking for the ghost ship, or Blackbeard. Its like a Michael Mann set.
After the Portsmouth photos are the CBBT snaps. On the above map you can see the Chesepeake Bay Bridge - Tunnel, which stretches 17.6 miles shore to shore, crossing the entrance of "Chesepiooc", Algonquin for Great Shellfish Bay. Opening in 1965, it connects Southeastern Virginia - Hampton Roads - and the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware plus the Eastern Shore counties in Maryland and Virginia).
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