Archive for architecture
knowing…
how sad it is that it actually took me six months to sit down and watch the off-the-charts beautiful
But I finally did, and the best is the moment when George walks into the kitchen to get his bread from the freezer and I got flooded with this big sigh of happiness, first for how Tom Ford captures this feeling of another time, but also just the pure genius of John Lautner, whose work immediately takes over my senses, and is so obviously his. Its so fun to imagine the cool tree-scented air blowing through the glass pivot doors into the Japanesey coziness of the interior.
It was an awesome movie for lots of reasons, but lets just say I went to bed paging lovingly through Between Earth and Heaven and wondering how soon we could come up with 1.5 mil and jobs in LA.
Images : 527 Whiting Woods Road Glendale, CA 91208
returning…
to my favorite
project to get the creative juices flowing again.
‘Amsterdam Loft’
Images : Yatzer/Dim Balsem
looking…
at townhouse porn,
working with Steven Harris on a project.
New York City little slices of heaven.
Images : Steven Harris Architects LLP
traveling…
a little this weekend, and once again, was subjected to the incredible architectural devestation that happened to poor Penn Station in 1963-1968.
I know its an old story in New York, but no matter how many times I experience the result I still feel some shock, and actual sadness despite never having seen the original. I also feel that familiar feeling I get when I’m on a frontage road, near a strip mall, or in a parking garage…that modernity has seriously betrayed us.
They actually tore it down.
Now I know at the moment its all in fashion to be nostalgic. The Edison bulbs (aka hipster beacons) hanging above every bar, cocktails like ‘The Moscow Mule’ becoming common place on drink lists, any number of little things (that I happen to love) to remind us of the cozy dimly-lit, much less antiseptic time in this city. However, nothing does my head in like imagining coming home from Philadelphia to the original Pennsylvania Station.
“Any city gets what it admires, will pay for and ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build, but those we have destroyed.”
“Farewell to Penn Station,” New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963
Love the 2nd episode in Season 3 of Mad Men when Sterling Cooper takes on the subject.
Images : Unknown
continuing…
my obessesion with the
Hudson, NY
Tiny, simple, rural, four acres of Rome apple trees.
Photos : Bill Abromowitz
