Metropolis Magazine: Beyond the Hype
After having read this article I wanted to share it with you. What I appreciate about what she wrote is that I felt similar feelings when I visited the High Line for the first time a few days ago. For me, the High Line is one of my favorite projects in New York in years, maybe since we built the Nomadic Museum on Pier 54. What I appreciate about it is that it is, as she puts it, trans-formative. It challenges new ideas and philosophies about living in this city, ideas that we desperately need. It also challenges current ideas of building that demand that we destroy our history in order to build our future. London is a great example of that challenge. The British have a great knack for preserving the old, respecting it’s history while at the same time modernizing it for today’s needs. My hat goes off to all those involved in the High Line project. I look forward to its future.
Have a look at this as well. Fun read: The High Line Blog: Opening Day
Here is a roundup of the press on the opening from the High Line blog
Have a look at arsitekturina’s entry about Jean Nouvel’s latest residential project in New York City.
The Heights of Summer by Tiffany Stevens
The film The Royal Tenenbaums is set in a not unusual fairytale
version of Manhattan. It’s always slightly worn, incredibly romantic,
(yet substantive), and gorgeous in a true sense. Awe and lightness
enlarge by the wonder of it all and it just overwhelms. Wes Anderson
and Woody Allen create this magical place so convincingly, who among
us can say that they’ve never searched for, nay, *ahem* moved to the
city on the belief it existed, or at least looked for some piece of
it?
Given up on that mythical, magical Manhattan after too many Dog Day
Afternoons? Not yet! For a $2.00 metrocard, you can ride the A train
to a Manhattan full of art, culture, history, mellowness (!), and
natural beauty that will amaze even the most jaded part of yourself.
For More: http://www.culturalblahblah.com/the-heights-of-summer-by-tiffany-stevens/
Also check out Tiffany’s earlier entries at the Tiffany Diaries
IHT: Milan’s surreal, supersized creations
Design continues to grow in popularity as seen at the Milan Furniture fair.
NYT: State’s Back at the Table in Planning Downtown
Spitzer wants to regain control over the development of Ground Zero’s cultural component
Yet another architectural project is surrounded by controversy. This time its the Atlantic Yards Project and Frank Gehry. Articles yesterday and today in AMNY and the Village Voice discuss how the community is now looking to Assemblyman Sheldon Silver to help delay the project until New York’s new Governor, Eliot Spitzer, takes office. Silver is the one who was able to put an ax to the West Side Stadium last year and delay the building of the Moynihan Station. Gehry and co have a hard road ahead of them…
Have a look at the NYT’s new newsletter on living in NYC
New York Times: Urbanite Weekend
