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Architect, client and tour de force

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Notes from New York City #3

8. Sacred Space Guard with dog keeps people off space in front of Seagram Building, Fifth Avenue. Get too close to Mies and you will be bitten. 9. Gimp Car Clothes for your automobile. 10. $25,000 for a lampshade Previous … Continue reading

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Notes from New York City #2

4. The hardest thing about cars is getting rid of them. Multi-storey car park, NY style, approx. $20 per hour. 5. Hi-Line Disused elevated railway turned into urban park. Tribeca NY. 6. Did it really happen? Dutchman buys Manhattan for … Continue reading

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Notes from New York City #1

1. Architect’s home life. Italian chromed steel electric fan by Enzio Pirali 1953. Donated to MOMA by Philip Johnson 1956. 2. New Cooper Union Campus Third Ave E7th St by Thomas Mayne of Morphosis opening this week, September 2009. Mayne’s … Continue reading

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