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From:Architecture (Vol. 87, Issue 11)Manhattan is about to have a building of singular klutziness imposed upon it. I am referring to the updated Columbus Circle complex - a political, financial, and architectural mishmash unlike almost anything we have had...
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From:The Architectural Review (Vol. 205, Issue 1228)An old warehouse in the once-prosperous TriBeCa district in Manhattan, NY, was transformed into a six-storey flat, with part of the sixth floor open at the top to better let in light. The ground floor of the former...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 32, Issue 8)Apparently subscribing to the adage, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," beleaguered real estate baron Donald Trump has formed a partnership with six of his former adversaries to oversee plans for a 76-acre site on...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 91, Issue 9)Does nature stop where the city begins? In Joel Sternfeld's photographic series on the abandoned High Line, an elevated freight railway that winds its way along Manhattan's industrial western edge, the two converge--or...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 90, Issue 4)City Hall paranoia is keeping a subway landmark buried. Nathan Ward goes underground. These days, only the motormen of the number six train can show you the hidden landmark beneath Manhattan's City Hall Park, and...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 89, Issue 11)A neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side has taken a high-tech approach to urban security by installing a blochwide, outdoor system that--with the touch of a button on a keychain that residents carry--activates...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 90, Issue 4)* In water sugar mixes easily, like black pepper in garam masala. pani mein chini mil jai asaani asaani jaisan masalawa mein mirchiya kali kali * The white officers question the hijabi woman with a bag of basmati in...
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From:The Mineralogical Record (Vol. 28, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe Kingsbridge quarrying district was first exploited during the first half of the 17th century by the earliest settlers of the Manhattan Island. By late 18th century, the quarry opened for commercial operation, which...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 89, Issue 2)The lens of modernism changed our perception of life in the 20th century. Marisa Bartolucci observes it also sharpens our view of the 21st. Modernism's relevance to this post-postmodern age might seem tenuous....
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From:Architecture (Vol. 92, Issue 12)Beacon, New York | www.maxprotetch.com The Max Protetch Gallery in Manhattan, which began showing architectural drawings in 1978, recently opened a second branch with an outdoor sculpture garden in Beacon, New York,...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 13, Issue 4)While researching this issue of The American Enterprise I spent much of one day walking across the South Bronx. (Never let it be said that editor of a magazine is a cushy job; I ended up with blisters on both feet the...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 37, Issue 1)After years of eroding office market conditions, things may finally be looking up for downtown Manhattan. What eventually emerges may look -- and feel -- quite different from the wing-tipped financial mecca of years...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUrban street networks take many forms, from the circular streets in Black Rock City (which is built and removed every year as part of the Burning Man Festival) to the streets and avenues in the Manhattan grid. This...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 42, Issue 12)Aug. 28, 1998, was a tragic day for the congregation of Manhattan's Central Synagogue, one of New York City's oldest Jewish temples. A fire -- ironically started accidentally by a worker repairing a rooftop...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 92, Issue 8)Perhaps not since I.M. Pei's 1961 Kips Bay Towers has Manhattan seen a new cast-in-place exposed-concrete high-rise. While this mode of construction--favored by modernist masters like Le Corbusier--is still popular in...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 35, Issue 10)Developer Donald Trump's long-deferred plans to build a 25-block-long, mixed-use development along Manhattan's Hudson River received a big boost recently in the form of financial backing. Although the financial...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 85, Issue 2)L. M., 2924-87 I'm whacking away on a piece of gum in the Charlotte airport and sitting next to Florida governor Charlie Crist and looking admiringly at him when suddenly I bite my cheek and shout "Ow!" which makes...
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From:Urban History Review (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the popular imagination, 1960s radicalism often appears as a national phenomenon that varied little from region to region. The case of downtown Manhattan during these years, however, challenges this assumption....
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 49, Issue 06)Concerned about publicity, New York University's continuing-education school scuttled plans for a course on the rebuilding of the part of lower Manhattan destroyed by the terrorist attacks of September 11. "Ground...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed1 In his 1860 poem "Mannahatta," Walt Whitman hints at just how microscopic our academic practice of close reading could eventually become. Whitman's poem reads its own title word's letterscape as a skyline, with its...