Dancing around the columns

Last week I went to the dance workshop, joint venture between  OpenHouseNY and Dancing in the Streets, just as I promised.
A beautiful, stately building. Calm and strong, overwhelmingly masculine, manly  enough to play with vignettes, curves, floral motifs and feminine silhouettes. Dynamic contrast in ceiling heights, masses of columns (solid! no joints!) and vaults vs. [...]

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Anonce

This might be interesting. All slots on Friday are taken, so I have registered for Thursday. I promise to take ton of pictures!

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Architectural literacy: Barcelona

On Monday I went to Center for Architecture to hear a lecturer from Barcelona talk about incorporating the city’s fabric into educational programs in architecture.
The description was a bit vague and mysteri0us, and the lecturer herself added to the uncertainty with her very approximate command of English. So I had to rely on the visual [...]

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OPNY’09: pictures

Finally finished processing the pictures I took last weekend. As you know, the best part, taken on Sunday (or what I consider the best) has been lost forever. So what you see has no intended climax  – which was the gorgeous stacks  of a steamer tender LILAC, brightly yellow with red interior in sunny-blue skies [...]

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Forecast

From LinkedIn professional group I’m a member of:

There is now doubt that the short term future for the commercial and institutional is bleak. In my twenty five plus years in the business I have never seen anything like this. The main culprit is the long-term and growing unemployment picture. In the “Income Property” sector unemployment [...]

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An update to tomorrow’s OHNY

I swear, that’s how they called it on official site:

Where Washington Rode; Where Obama Slept — UPDATE: TOURS FULLY BOOKED
SE corner of 96th St/ Broadway, New York
program name: OHNY tours
program type: Architecture/Design
borough: Manhattan
event date:
hours:  Sat 1 pm   Sun 1 pm
Join a tour of the Upper West Side’s Bloomingdale area. Among the featured buildings are St. [...]

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OHNY weekend is coming

Tomorrow, Oct 2nd, the listings will be posted in Weekend Guide and will be available on the website (www.ohny.org) . The hard copies are available through Metro, the free daily newspaper, on October 2 & 5 and at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) beginning October 2. Program sponsors will begin [...]

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Pethouses for sale: foreigners eligible*

Interlace in Singapore.  $720K in SGD for 807s.ft.? Not bad…if you are willing to bet nothing will change till March 2015…
*No, this is not my typo. Take a look at the links.

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Simon Schubert, tamer of paper

Incredible. I suspect the guy is an architect…
Found @ DailyArtPress, via Catmoves

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Building code? What building code?

It must be a refuge architects are secretly aspire to retire to…after dealing with all manner of codes, zoning regulations and protective acts. Ah, the paradise.
See more here.

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