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A Charles Dickens theme park opens in Kent next month. Don't go expecting grimy Victorian authenticity, says Simon Swift - just enjoy the Great Expectations log flume
William Blake saw all this coming with the dawning of the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, elaborating a cautionary cosmology that pitted the forces of reason, efficiency and utility against the values of imagination, creativity, empathy and delight. But it has taken until the 21st century for his ship to come in, and it's the discipline of design, and the discussion around it, that are, by ever-increasing necessity, driving social change. Where design in North America has historically focused on tarting up consumer goods to stimulate sales, the shift is now toward designing responsibly, enhancing the self-expression of the consumer, and aiding the collective good.
Construction on the Second Avenue subway line is kicking into gear this week, prompting developers, contractors, and architects to consider various uses for the rare rock that will be excavated from Manhattan's East Side. Some say the expensive rock, known as " Manhattan Schist," could be used for the construction of a grand project in the region.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights was built from rock recovered when the no. 1 subway line was excavated in 1904. Ellis Island was also expanded during the 1930s when rock and dirt from quarrying the lettered subway tunnels was used as landfill to expand the island to 32 acres from about five acres. The landfill under Battery Park City was built partly with rock excavated from the former site of the World Trade Center.
A section of Eero Saarinen's 1962 TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport known as the "trumpet" will be getting a little fanfare of its own sometime next week; the piece will be moved in preparation for construction of the new JetBlue Airways terminal.
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The new JetBlue terminal should be completed by Fall 2008, Baldwin estimates. In the meantime, the trumpet will have to be moved twice—once to make way for construction, and a second time to attach the structure to the back of the new terminal, where it will be used as an observation deck. If all goes as planned, the trumpet will be settled in its final location sometime this summer.
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Long before IKEA's prefabricated houses, there were Lustrons. Carl Strandlund's Lustron Corporation manufactured metal ranch houses between 1948 and 1950, and Americans built 2,680 of them.
Arlington, Va., just outside Washington, D.C., has six Lustron houses—or it did until this week, when a new owner demolished the so-called Barcroft Lustron, constructed in 1949.
A local group, the Arlington Heritage Alliance, tried to save the Barcroft Lustron. One of its members tried to convince owner Andy Symonds to allow the group time to disassemble and store it.
Bulldozers destroyed the 1,085-square-foot house on Monday to make way for a new residence on the .22-acre site. "It was not fiscally reasonable," to stall construction of his new five-bedroom house, Symonds says. "[The Lustron] was not practical for today's day and age."
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Phoenix Tries to Prevent Loss of Another Modern Bank
L.A. Wildfire Damages Paul Williams House
Painted Wall Signs Are Disappearing, But Is Restoration the Answer?
european wild party photos
Pitchfork is a 98 unit residential community made up of single-family homes, cottages, and multi-family buildings. Coburn Development planned, designed, and built this neighborhood, which contributes desirable and affordable housing to Mt. Crested Butte while responding to its mining heritage and mountain town appeal.
dylan photographed by elliott landy
...the iconic minimalist scuplture installed by artist Frosty Myers at 599 Broadway on the corner of Houston and Broadway back in the early 1970's, but removed for structural reasons in 2002—will rise again on the same wall. Per The Villager, 30 additional feet of wall space will be added so the beams that form the structure can rise higher, allowing for the installation of (you see this coming, right?) street-level billboards. 'The Wall' will also be lit at night for the first time
drinking images
In his new book, Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville, Witold Rybczynski follows the design, construction, and marketing of a new residential subdivision over the course of several years. In the process, he explains how modern homes and communities are built. In today's excerpt, the first of three, Rybczynski examines why we live in houses. Tomorrow's excerpt explains how Americans fell in and out of love with the ranch house. Wednesday's slide show follows the evolution of New Daleville step-by-step, from cornfield to subdivision.slate
Frank Gehry's first New York City building is a minor mood piece, not the sort of rhapsodic extravaganza his adorers are used to. At one time, he had hoped to debut with a bent-metal Guggenheim Museum on the East River; he still plans to stage a full-scale invasion of Brooklyn with an all-Gehry district at Atlantic Yards. Meanwhile, there is this milky hulk on the Hudson, the headquarters of Barry Diller's Internet empire, IAC.
The building reaches its apex of glamour in wretched weather. Fog and snow haze its edges and bleach its white skin whiter, so that it seems to be constantly evanescing and rematerializing. On such dim days, the ceiling lights inside make the building fluoresce.
I wish it could always give that impression of indeterminacy. During construction, drivers along West Street saw drunken columns rising aslant from wavy concrete floors. When the white glass went on, some took it for a temporary protective film. Surely, they thought, it's not always going to look that way?
rago modern furniture auction
saturday and sunday items in catalog - lambertville nj (just accross the delaware river from newhope pa
signless in sao paolo
walnut slab / edit : johns new table
Space units for residential buildings, 1961
Design: Bernd Meurer, Herbert Ohl
Photo: Ernst Fesseler
© Ulmer Museum/HfG Archiv
im not sure how pure an experience people expect in their music listening experience.
is it a matter of a club surviving or not -or- crass profiteering? i suspect in the case of places i would go to its about survival.
Whoo, hoo, yeah
Whoo, hoo, yeah
Shell adore you and shell floor you
With her wisdom and her vision
And youll love it and think of it
Till you lose all intuition
Come on
She can move you and improve you
With her love and her devotion
And shell thrill you and shell chill you
But youre headed for commotion
And youll need her so youll feed her
With your endless dedication
And the quicker you get sicker
Shell remove your medication
Get the firehouse
cause she sets my soul afire
Get the firehouse
And the flames keep gettin higher
Shes like bad weather but it seems so good
Youd never leave her but you know you should
Shes like bad weather but it seems so good
Youd never leave her but you know you should
Ooh
Get the firehouse
cause she sets my soul afire
Get the firehouse
Whoo, hoo, yeah
Get the firehouse
Whoo, hoo, yeah
materialicious
corn-gratz justin on your new materials blog
Lancaster County, Penn., located in the southeastern corner of the state and within hours of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., is an area destined for growth.
Today many parts of Lancaster County are becoming theaters of conflict between large, new residential developments and centuries-old farms. Often, money trumps such intangibles as history, character, and scenery. How can family farms containing dozens of acres coexist with more and more residential development?
With help from nonprofits and municipal planners, Lancaster County's small farms are surviving as wide gaps in the suburban landscape
Stop Faking It
Germany's Museum Plagiarius showcases knockoffs. The founders are determined to protect small designers from counterfeiters that stifle innovation
by Rachel Tiplady
Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware, warns one of the oldest sayings in the book. That's also the message behind a new museum of counterfeit goods, which opens to the public on Apr. 1. The Museum Plagiarius, in the German city of Solingen near Cologne, will permanently exhibit some 300 original products together with inferior rip-offs produced by unscrupulous companies out for a quick buck.
Its message: Plagiarism kills innovation. "Companies have spent time and money making these products; if someone steals that idea, then they are also stealing the incentive to invent," says the museum's curator, Christine Lacroix, who is also managing director for nonprofit lobby group Aktion Plagiarius, which runs the museum and offers design companies legal advice and regular workshops to help fight against organizations that counterfeit.
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