This week is finals week for design/architecture schools in NYC, apparently.
Yesterday, I was on the Pratt jury for their ID finals.
Tomorrow and Friday are FIT thesis projects. I’ve been asked to jury those too.
Monday is the CCNY 3rd year architecture finals. I’ve been asked to jury those, too.
Fortunately, I’d seen half the projects I helped [...]
Finals week is exhausting, and I’m not even in school.
Interior vs. exterior.
Over the weekend, I’d gotten an IM from Jay (Maynard, not Reeder) linking me to a letter published in a Minneapolis paper following the announcement of this year’s Pritzker Prize award.
Although I’ve been to Minneapolis (at length, even. 9 weeks isn’t exactly an overnight stay), I’d never seen the original theater, designed by Ralph Rapson, [...]
Well, whaddya know.
One of the photos I took of that ugly fucking monstrosity they’re unwrapping in Columbus Circle the “improved” 2 Columbus Circle building has made Curbed.
This is not an improvement, people.
Let us review.
Before….
After:
This is not an improvement.
For those who may not know, one of my degrees is in restoration. Though I am *by no means* anti-development in the City of New York, I do think that there are some buildings that should not be significantly altered. This was one of them, and I [...]
I’m just going to say this.
I’ve just come back from, amongst other things, having a look at the “new and improved” 2 Columbus Circle building. The scaffolding is coming down and you can really see what’s been done to it. So I had a look.
I’m just going to put this out there- It’s fucking ugly. As in it’s significantly worse [...]
That sound you’re not hearing is the sound of “busy”.
We are entering into the stage of the project in Miami where the real challenges are making themselves known. I am used to this. To me, this is not stressful. No one’s money is being wasted, nothing has been ordered. No irrevocable changes have been made. Right now, it’s just pictures [...]
The service triangle.
Though I mentioned this on Friday briefly, yesterday’s massive construction accident brings the concept back to the fore in stark relief.
The service triangle will not be denied. Though the full set of circumstances of yesterday’s crane failure in Manhattan are not yet known, the bits and pieces that are known point to at its [...]
It’s not all fun and games.
Sobering news for a Saturday night (though it’s technically Sunday morning now)
I saw it first on Curbed, but Gothamist has much more detailed coverage. City officials are calling it one of the worst construction accidents in NYC history. A crane collapsed in midtown on the east side, completely taking out a townhouse and [...]
(not so) Good Vibrations.
It was 5:30am exactly when the building began shaking. The problem was that this wasn’t a movie. It was my building, and that was yesterday.
There were a few upsides though. First of all, I was awake anyway, so my adrenal system didn’t go haywire from being woken up suddenly, and second of all, it wasn’t [...]
Peeve.
The news of the day, sports fans, is the release of Fumihiko Maki’s design to replace the Cooper Union engineering building at 51 Astor Place in NYC. I’m seeing this all over my rss reader today from Curbed and Tropolism so far (but I expect it to be pretty much everywhere by day’s end.) For [...]
