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Rising in the east at sunset, the New Year's Eve full moon will reach its highest point at midnight, noted Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium and host of PBS television's long-running show Star Gazer.
"Full moons around winter solstice rise their highest for the entire year," Horkheimer added.
"Even if you are downtown in a large city, if it is clear at the stroke of midnight the moon will be very visible if you look up."
In any location, the high, silvery orb will seem like a floodlight cast on the landscape, added Horkheimer, who is organizing a national moon-howling contest around this year's blue moon.
"This is especially true where the ground is covered with a blanket of snow. There is nothing quite so spectacular as a snow-covered scene under a December full moon at midnight."
tavern on the green (nyc since 1934) closing 12/31/09 - to auction fixtures off
In Memory of Maryanne Amacher
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The Umbrella House is about to get its umbrella back.thx ree
Vincent and Julie Ciulla, owners of the 1953 house in Lido Shores, have announced that they are breaking ground on a project that will restore the “umbrella” to the Paul Rudolph-designed house.
Rudolph built the house on speculation to attract attention to the Lido Shores development of Phil Hiss. It did just that, largely because of the superstructure that shaded both the house and the pool deck. Housing and architecture magazines ran articles on the house, and it remains one of Rudolph’s best-known works of the Sarasota school of architecture.
harry everett smith audio interview 1965
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via things mag
The harsh, almost geological angularity of the parking garage shears through Lapidus’s easy informality, yet with its open structure and its canted and V-shaped columns there is a faint echo of playful MiMo. The developer, Robert Wennett, has used Miami Beach’s parking shortage to smuggle in a layer of retail for which he otherwise would have struggled to get permission. Boutiques and bookshops at ground level establish a pattern of (upmarket) retail for (the now mid-market) Lincoln, while four condos on a new street at the side help with profits, leaving Wennett’s own penthouse and a restaurant to occupy the top floor. There is even a shop halfway up the ramps, isolated and intriguing.via things mag
As you ascend through the structure, its concrete planes fold themselves beneath you, each level exposing a yet more compelling vantage-point on the surrounding city. At one point a complex tangle of steel by artist Monika Sosnowska turns out also to be a safety feature, stopping kids getting struck beneath the ramp. By the time you reach the top, the city, the sea and the sky twinkle before you in a filmic panorama.
The idea is to create a series of layers that extend the public realm up into the building, to attract events, parties and life into the structure. Both architects and developer see the structure as an experiment in a new kind of downtown transport architecture, a building as exciting to enter as to emerge from, blinking into the Miami sun. This may be optimistic, but it’s a good story.
belgian greenhouse-house (justin)
international greenhouse co
digitally fabricated book shelves
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WSB's the junky's christmas
ugly christmas sweater party dot com
duve pro tm tape rose brand theatrical supply
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visual acoustics: the modernism of julius schulman
wprb towe on thursday - bach till 11 am
Robt. Williams lecture oakland museum 1/11
ed roth interviewing von dutch
rip arnold stang
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