Being a resident of Brooklyn, I’m quite familiar with sinking-gut reaction that comes with spotting the plywood barriers and angular iron beams rising up from the open pit of the latest luxury condo tower site (in case you aren’t up to speed, check out the website for Downtown Brooklyn Partnership to see what Flatbush Avenue [...]
(Points to whoever knows what that’s from!)
Anywho. Penelope Green writes this piece in the Architecture section of The Times, correlating internet profile mania with the clones of glass condo buildings that have taken over the city since 2000.
I’m not sure how much I agree, other than that, in a general sense, the private is [...]
I guess we’re having a little architecture moment at Counter Critic.
The New Yorker runs Paul Goldberger’s critique of the new New York Times digs. Basically, the building is hot on the outside, cold on the inside, and pretty much guarantees no change in The Times‘ liminal status: liberal by occasionally reticent; up to speed but [...]
Ouch.
Our amigas over at the Studio Museum of Harlem got a little beat-down from Nicolai Ouroussoff in The Times for their current exhibit featuring architectural models and sketches from David Adjaye.
Don’t fret ladies. We got your back.
And if there were like some kind of tunnel that ran in a straight line from Brooklyn to Harlem, [...]
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