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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 Renzo Piano to design what may be the beginning of a return to skyscraper form. Officially opened last week, the New York Times Building is the first truly impressive office tower raised in Manhattan in more than 40 years.”

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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 uranium, laboratories that split the atom, and the project’s first headquarters — a skyscraper hidden in plain sight right across from City Hall.”

Photographs of Manhattan, Irwin Klein 1964-69

• 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)

• 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 komt voort uit, ja, waaruit eigenlijk?”
  (tags: nl)