Weekend 194.1
“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →
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Planning in this sense is analogous to historical fiction, but unlike the backward-looking literary genre, its clipped narrative creates an anticipatory endpoint. It romances the nostalgic future, a potential urban Continue Reading →
Weekend 193.1
To put this in plain terms, Americans and their institutions have tended to choose the self-interest and individualism of the free market over the nationalized model more prevalent in postwar Continue Reading →
More from Aerotropolis…
…or red courtesy phone for Mr. Friedman. “The aerotropolis and authoritarians go hand in hand. The first is a city built from scratch to chase economies of speed; the second Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.1
Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.0
Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Continue Reading →
Weekend 189.0 (July 4th)
(1) Tacita Dean Reflects on Time (WSJ) (2) Walt Disney and the Founding Mouse (3) The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture: In our age of online view counts and retweets, Continue Reading →
Weekend 188.0
(1) Magnetic Color Cubes® by The Orb Factory (2) Festival of colors (Design You Trust) (3) Birth by Sleep (KH 358/2) (3a) Disney Epic Mickey Digicomics (4) Television: Pan Am Continue Reading →
Weekend 187.0
“But if flight represents freedom, reinvention, and self-renewal—and barring all of that escape—then the terminal itself has evolved into something resembling a destination…They’re amnesiac places with no future and no Continue Reading →
Weekend 186.0
(1) Morris Mini Cooper S (Flickr) (2) The Terrifying Truth About New Technology: Do robots and Twitter make you nervous? Growing old is what you’re really afraid of (3) Kumho Continue Reading →