The Guardian, The power of the tower: “The decline of the New York skyscraper – caused by a leaking away of creative steam from the 1960s and a planning system that increasingly stifled fresh architectural ideas – seemed signed and sealed on 9/11. Yet, just a year before the terrorist attack, the Times Company commissioned [...]
Entries Tagged as 'manhattan'
New York Times Building
November 28th, 2007
Tags: architecture · manhattan · new york · new york times · renzo piano
Why They Called It the Manhattan Project
October 30th, 2007
The Pupin Physics Laboratories at Columbia. New York Times: Why They Called It the Manhattan Project: “In “The Manhattan Project” (Black Dog & Leventhal), published last month, Dr. Norris writes about the Manhattan Project’s Manhattan locations. He says the borough had at least 10 sites, all but one still standing. They include warehouses that held [...]
Tags: atomic bomb · history · manhattan · manhattan project · new york city · robert s. norris · wo2
Photographs of Manhattan, Irwin Klein 1964-69
April 24th, 2007
Photographs of Manhattan, Irwin Klein 1964-69
Tags: art · manhattan · new york city · photography
links for 2006-06-26
June 26th, 2006
The Mannahatta Project “The aim of the Mannahatta Project is to reconstruct the ecology of Manhattan when Henry Hudson first sailed by in 1609 and compare it to what we know of the island today.” (tags: manhattan history mapping)
Tags: history · manhattan · mapping · new york city
links for 2006-06-07
June 7th, 2006
Manhattan Elsewhere “In the maps below, I’ve inserted Manhattan into places (at the same scale) that, through either habitation and visitation, I have come to know well.” (tags: manhattan us mashup) nrc.nl – Sport – Met leeuwenhosen op de tribune “In andere landen hebben voetbalsupporters genoeg aan een shirt en een sjaal. De Nederlandse oranje-gekte [...]
Tags: jason kottke · manhattan · mashup · new york city · nl