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September 29, 2006
Buster's Fugly Faced Bud Light Garage
Curbed has been covering the recent goings on with Busters Garage in Tribeca. Sometimes yuppies do nimby right. Either way, Transfer has always found this building beyond fugly, and as such, wholly representing the purpose it serves. Wreck it with Panache!
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September 21, 2006
Boom Tour Part II
Posted by jmarston at 08:29 PM
The Anti-Sit: Moonshine
Posted by jmarston at 08:25 PM
September 14, 2006
The Other Williamsburg Building Boom
The Satmar Community of Brooklyn is flourishing, resulting in a sustained housing boom for the Far South Side of Williamsburg. But this building boom isn't luxury, or built by the Toll Bros. Although the media has focused on the recent scandals in the wake of the passing of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the Satmar community is still the fastest growing Haisidic sect in the world, with the 4th largest school system in New York state.
Transfer's hard hitting investigative team explores this vibrant urban neighborhood, on the Shabbat. These selections are uniform in their variances and first in a series of architectural photo tours of the neighborhood. A triumph for functionalists everywhere, I guess.
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MFSM 3: Chain Links
Subtle, arresting - J'accuse, another architectural outrage at the firehouse!! Help these guys out!
Posted by jmarston at 08:48 PM
The Anti-Sit: Alien Interloper
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The Anti-Sit: Cover the Bases
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September 12, 2006
MFSM: Shoots and Ladders
Another NYC Firehouse left for the bog. Downer Design.
Posted by jmarston at 01:08 AM
September 11, 2006
40 Bond Street
Oh My, all the stararchitects are getting their window treatments this week. H&M get their slabs laid in a hurry... how things looked back in April... & looked back in early June.
Posted by jmarston at 02:45 PM
On Prospect Park
The slabs have been poured, the windows are being attached, and the sales office is returning my calls! Progress my dear! Now if only I could afford a square foot or two... & how things looked back in early August.
Posted by jmarston at 02:23 PM
I Love New York
In so many ways New York City, and I with it, have changed in the 5 years since a fanatical urban planner and 18 other misanthropic fascists made death the world's daily bread. Yet at the same time, and all too often at that, it seems like yesterday. How disgusting, and blood thirsty, their success has made all involved. Thugs and special eds now think it wise to blow apart their flesh daily. And our very own Bush will go stand where the pile once smoldered, that miserable twat. But lest we burrow down with the Islamists and their Neo-Con allies, we should put the hate, war, and death aside, and offer a dove & a prayer to those who've lost someone, and a call to all for a kinder & more beautiful city. For what is loss but a lesson of appreciation for what you still have.
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September 07, 2006
Modernist Fire Station Madness: Thats Ornamentation
New Series, MFSM, The ugly modern squats that some firefighters are stuck with in New York City! Simply put, an Outrage!
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September 06, 2006
Nouvel's Guthrie
I'm a little late on review, but thats my uptake. This project is a smashing success, 3 volumes - two boxes and a cylinder - T'd with a bridge. The structure is just balanced enough, & just broken enough. The materials and light, in tandem with the interior and exterior, bring a sensorial effect to the giant playhouse. Nouvel’s bridge connects the parking garage on the West side, while framing the greenery of the Mississippi, the stone arch bridge & massive mill city ruins on the East side of the building. While the view opposite the bridge, down the ramp, is one of the props shops and backstage passageways. Both of which appear thru colored glass. Above this, half moons are cut and lit almost sculpturally, reaching into the second floor. The walk to the man theatre is circular, the walls inlayed with famous performers and performances, opening onto a steep Globe like pit. The bulge and radiated bottom of the theatre & its seating viewed can be seen from the outside, highlighting this logic.
I've always thought Mr. Nouvel as very contextual to the feeling of a political era. It tends to date his buildings, but I kind of like it. Most think its malarkey. That is to say, the Arab World Institute of Paris was to the 80's Regan Thatcher security state, with its low ceilings, controlled 'views in', steely reserve, and muddled plaza. This new building is for the 00's. Light and ghosts shown on the wall, dark blue and black, with the shiniest metal. In materials, logic, and feeling these expressions hit upon the current climate. Of the three most recent projects in Minneapolis: Herzog & de Meuron's Walker expansion, Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theatre, & Cesar Pelli's Library; this little building is the most riotious of the group. I'll be posting photos of the other two buildings next. From the archives, my love letter to Minneapolis.
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