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Yikeroonies!!! (I don't mean that in a good way.) On the other hand, building a box of tall placeless boxes around Madison Square Garden will make it look better - nostalgic, even (I know - that's a stretch).
Behold! This is what Vornado wants to do the area around Penn Station after demolishing everything old: Development - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=0PsWDFpv… Be
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Bravo!
This year, ASLA is partnering with @EarthDay to sponsor the #GreatGlobalCleanup! ASLA chapters, members, students, or followers can use the ASLA portal to register a cleanup. Learn more bit.ly/31F9Mhp #WLAM2021; #GrowingTogether
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This wins my vote as tweet of the day (worthy of embroidering on a pillow, even...).
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Att: @aarieff et al...
While Scotland announces a £20m fund for a Summer of Play for all children, in England we’re still lagging behind @adevoce @timrgill @DrHelenDodd @planet_playful @playengland @playingout nurseryworld.co.uk/news/arti…
This is simply - wow - restores my faith in civilization. h/t @aarieff !
Reading a book on the train is a tale-old tradition many BART riders partake in.
To encourage reading for those even without a book, BART is piloting touchless @ShortEdition_EN Short Story Dispensers, which print out short stories, at 4 BART stations.
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Awesomely fabuloso! I've spent 18 years for the perfect chair for my fab mid-century dining room table - Ikea Pajala is it - but likely the most difficult to find...sigh. Thx @DianaBudds & @aarieff !
this is possibly the most fun Internet thing i've seen this recently: a database of all the design-y chairs in the Star Trek universe ex-astris-scientia.org/datab…
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@HarvardGSD launches Harvard Design Press - seeking book proposals!!!
In pursuit of new, original ideas on the research and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, the Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. hgsd.us/hdp
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Good grief...just when I thought news couldn't get more depressing: theguardian.com/us-news/2021…
Couldn't figure out why today felt a bit odd. Then I remembered: Beware the Ides of March. I think I'll go to bed now...
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Happy Birthday Ada - what a great way to celebrate!!! Thx @HawthorneCDOLA & @cmonstah !
Tomorrow would have been the 100th birthday of the great architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. To celebrate, @cmonstah & I have rounded up a group to read at 2pm PDT from some of her best pieces--& in support of two fantastic orgs, Critical Minded & New Architecture Writers.
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Yikeroonies!!! (Let the finger-pointing begin...)
Woe is The Standard Hotel! Concrete chunk falls & 450-ft stretch of scaffolding goes up, darkening High Line, writes @LoisWeiss
nypost.com/2021/03/11/scaffo… via @nypost
Fabuloso!
Streaming for free tonight as part of the virtual Architecture and Design Film Festival
watch.eventive.org/adffvirtu…?
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Will wonders never cease! County called this morning asking if we'd be interested in getting vaccinated - they had app'ts. open this afternoon & tomorrow. At 2:15 today, George & I got the J&J one-time-only "jab" (as the Brits call it). YAY!!! Light at the end of a long tunnel...
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Hear! Hear! Way to go, @HawthorneCDOLA !
Here’s a sign that @HawthorneCDOLA is having a real impact as LA’s chief design officer. This project is incredibly promising, with the potential to be a national model for how to tackle a major social and planning problem while keeping the design level high.
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Such sad news. A marvelous architect, indeed. Time with him was always joyous - thx @paulgoldberger - the perfect word I've been looking for - for a long time.
Very sad news indeed. He was a marvelous architect, a cultivated and civilized man, and a joy to spend time with. He never doubted that both history and modernism mattered, and his work bridged the gap between them. washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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