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People drift through a large, ornate French hotel. Sometimes time freezes. X thinks he met A last year in the garden at Fredericksburg, although she is unable to remember him. He himself isn't even certain whether it was at Fredericksburg, Marienbad, Baden-Salsa where they met or here. He describes how when they met she nearly gave herself to him but held herself back at the last minute. They agreed they would meet again in one year's time to see if his love for her was strong enough to wait or if she would have forgetten him. He presses her not to hold back this time and to remember what happened.
catching up on the fab-prefab containerbay page and found this :
The Landmarks Preservation Commission today approved a certificate of appropriateness for a new residential co-operative building with 8 units at 372 Lafayette Street in NoHo. The 6-story building is distinguished by its red-metal structural frame that houses shipping container boxes.
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“The use of the shipping containers has aesthetic and historical analogies to the district’s cast-iron architecture. Both are mass-produced and pre-fabricated and the repetitive bays of the shipping containers are similar to the repeating arches and panel of Italianate building. In overreaching terms, this is an appropriate material and building construction to introduce into this manufacturing district,” she continued.
The civic organization at that time objecting to the blue cladding then planned for the building, recommending the use of “brick red containers could help mediate between this new and very modern material and the historic buildings.” “It is heartening to see a building that adaptively uses what is normally an industrial cast-off,” Ms. Kersavage concluded.
WFMU BWTB has been pretty good lately
as has be-dazz
so this is being played like silverstein finally caved. but who is the winner here? we inherit an ill conceived (that is, plug ugly, too big too hybrid designed - dont forget those bird chomping turbines) building (still being referred to as "the freedom tower") that has no tenets. thats a win?!
But some construction and real estate industry executives, and some urban planners, hear echoes of the hoopla surrounding the original World Trade Center project more than 30 years ago. They are questioning whether the rapid building of so much speculative office space would have the same destabilizing consequences for the downtown market as the twin towers had in the 1970's.
Some experts are even wondering whether there will be enough steel, concrete and curtain wall to build the four towers by 2012 at the same time that two baseball stadiums, the $2 billion Goldman Sachs headquarters, the $1.7 billion expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Moynihan Station, 10,000 apartments and various subway projects are under construction.
In a cut-and-paste society, the way information travels is rapidly changing, but copyright laws are staying the same. Novelist Jonathan Lethem and cartoonist Art Spiegelman debate the evolving role of intellectual property laws.listen live now
ny dolls / then and now
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interpret willy wont
it was the best of times (shs class '74) it was the worst of times.
shipping containers turn 50
edit : ok make that "53" per commenter justin