Tag Archives: architecture

Morning View – 1 Prospect Park

Richard Meier’s trademark all-glass luxury condo building has been ready for occupants for months in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a place more noted for classic brownstones than for Miami Beach-style see-thru boxes. Unsurprisingly, only 25% of the units have sold. I wonder if the building will leak like crazy like the three eyesore Meier towers in the West Village.

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Morning View – Madison Square Garden

The fourth incarnation of Madison Square Garden sits atop Penn Station in midtown, about a mile and a half from the actual Madison Square, where the first Garden was built in 1879. The current Garden was built in 1968 at the cost of the grand above-ground Beaux Arts portion of Penn Station (which you know if you are watching Mad …

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Tiny Houses

The above is my favorite from the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s slideshow of houses under 1000 square feet, from a new book by Andreas Wenning called Tiny Houses.

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The Empty Sky Of Dubai

The construction boom town of Dubai, where 200 fantastically tall skyscrapers have been started in the last five years, is emptying out of foreigners who fear being sent to debtors prison for defaulting on their home loans. With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers have reported that more than 3,000 cars sit abandoned in the parking lot at the Dubai …

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Jenga!

Via Gizmodo: Fresh off the billions of eyes that have been on the beautiful Beijing National Stadium, Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have set their sights on NYC with this incredible 57-story residential tower, unveiled today. It consists of 145 unique apartments that are stacked into the sky like a Jenga tower that’s already been well-poked by a party …

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Narchitecture

Via Father Tony comes this amusing blog post about narchitecture, a new name for Miami’s mammoth waterfront homes that appear to be owned by drug dealers. Narchitecture is the pit bull of architecture. It grabs you by the (eye) balls and doesn’t let go, marrying a bevy of Mediterranean styles—neo-Classical, Spanish Revival and Fascist—with the vernacular American school known as …

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In Beijing: World’s Largest Building

Twice the size of the Pentagon at 240 acres, Beijing’s new airport terminal, takes the title of world’s largest building*. Adorned with the colors of imperial China and a roof that evokes the scales of a dragon, the massive glass- and steel-sheathed structure, designed by the renowned British architect Norman Foster, cost $3.8 billion and can handle more than 50 …

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Nouveau Nouvel

A futuristic 75-story tower will rise in midtown next to the MOMA. According to the glowing review in the NY Times: Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel for a site next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation. Its faceted exterior, tapering to a series of …

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