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November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

NY Times Building, Renzo Piano
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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Gems from the archive of the New York Times

September 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

NY Times 11 augustus 1917 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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