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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.”

Slideshow (plus).

Kottke: “Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let’s take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.”

Afbeelding: Fragment uit The New York Times van 11 augustus 1917 waarin gebruik van mosterdgas in de stad Armentières wordt gemeld.

Zie ook uit de krant van zaterdag 21 januari 1905: A DUTCH BOY.; WALTER PIETERSE. A Story of Holland. By Multatuli. (Eduard Douwes Dekker.) Translated by Hubert Evans, Ph.D. 12mo. Pp. 503. New York: Friderici & Garels.

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