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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.



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WFMU BWTB has been pretty good lately

as has be-dazz


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wtc
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.

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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
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ny dolls / then and now

via zars
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interpret willy wont


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it was the best of times (shs class '74) it was the worst of times.


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shipping containers turn 50

edit : ok make that "53" per commenter justin
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The Old Town School of Folk Music

contemplator


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you tube music video snob-off from kenny more kenny more snob


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cady noland approximately


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Jane Jacobs dies


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jazzfest field guide


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85-3


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Oh Stewball was a racehorse, and I wish he were mine.
He never drank water, he always drank wine.

His bridle was silver, his mane it was gold.
And the worth of his saddle has never been told.

Oh the fairgrounds were crowded, and Stewball was there
But the betting was heavy on the bay and the mare.

And a-way up yonder, ahead of them all,
Came a-prancin' and a-dancin' my noble Stewball.

I bet on the grey mare, I bet on the bay
If I'd have bet on ol' Stewball, I'd be a free man today.

Oh the hoot owl, she hollers, and the turtle dove moans.
I'm a poor boy in trouble, I'm a long way from home.

Oh Stewball was a racehorse, and I wish he were mine.
He never drank water, he always drank wine.

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dj bobbie bob


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Louise Smith, first lady of racing, dies at 89


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paint it black! paint it black you devil!


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FLW field guide reviewed

"The two-dimensional photograph can't begin to suggest what he put into the house for the observer," says Heinz, now an architect, author and photographer based in Mettawa. "The typical Wright house is meant to be walked by, driven by, lived in, not just seen from a single perspective-and that's where I think Wright's buildings are so different from everyone else's, and why photographs are often so deceptive. The photographer will take full advantage to bring you the best of the building, using wide-angle lenses, narrow cropping and so on, which alters your perception of it. Seeing it in person, you get so much more of the colors, textures and context of the building."

For example, photographs of Heinz's favorite Wright building -- the Robie House on the University of Chicago campus -- tend to make it look as if it were situated on a two- or three-acre lot, when in fact it's what Heinz calls "plunked down" on a corner and almost crowded by other structures. On the other hand, the same photographs don't convey the sheer majesty of the house's textured copper gutters, its massive brick piers and heavy limestone planters.

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In his new book, Alain de Botton argues that human characteristics can be found everywhere in the inanimate world of objects

If we can judge the personality of objects from apparently minuscule features (a change of a few degrees in the angle of the rim can shift a wine glass from modesty to arrogance), it is because we first acquire this skill in relation to humans, whose characters we can impute from microscopic aspects of their skin tissue and muscle. An eye will move from implying apology to suggesting self-righteousness by way of a movement that is in a mechanical sense implausibly small. The width of a coin separates a brow that we take to be concerned from one that appears concentrated, or a mouth that implies sulkiness from one that suggests grief.

Codifying such infinitesimal variations was the life's work of the Swiss pseudoscientist Johann Kaspar Lavater, whose four-volume Essays on Physiognomy (1783) analysed almost every conceivable connotation of facial features and supplied line drawings of an exhaustive array of chins, eye sockets, foreheads, mouths and noses, with interpretative adjectives appended to each illustration.

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Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture


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hotel blue wave

nice accompanying film w/ "help! my condo is a big chuck of packing material and the hallways and apartments arnt marked" dream sequence.
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alsa pinstriping products

via zars
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The unpronounceable masterpiece of the Industrial Revolution: Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct


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