As part of an effort to encourage water conservation, artist Ed Ruscha, rapper Jay-Z, and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will all be designing art to grace New York City water towers. “The Water Tank Project” is set to last three months and will commence in the spring of 2013. [Architizer]
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Photo: Dezeen · A light and airy bunker in Portugal. [Dezeen] · Kristen Bell’s house is now officially bank-owned. [The Real Estalker] · The history of Singapore’s black and white style. [Apartment Therapy] · Marisa Tomei sued over leak. [NY Daily News] · Fannie Mae board member sells UWS townhouse for $5.5M. [The Real Deal] · ’50s house remodeled in South Africa. [Contemporist]
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Linkage: Portuguese Minimalism; Bell Loses House; Singapore; More!
Earlier this morning, 4 and 6 train service was suspended for a couple hours between Brooklyn Bridge and 42nd Street, due to an investigation . It turns out that a man was struck and killed by a train near Spring Street before 6 a.m. [ more › ]
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Man On Subway Tracks Fatally Struck By Train Near Spring Street
Earlier this week, we heard about new Oxygen reality show Brooklyn 11223 , the latest attempt to bottle up that indelible Jersey Shore magic and transport it to a NYC-based location. While the comings-and-goings of a group of feisty Bay Ridge ladies doesn’t really seem that controversy-worthy (nor very interesting) to us, Brooklyn politicians are frothing at the mouth for a chance to castigate the network and lambast the show : “They’re crass, crude and cartoonish about Bay Ridge, and they couldn’t be more hopelessly wrong about Bay Ridge women,” said City Councilman Vincent Gentile. “It shows women who act and speak as if they were in the era of Saturday Night Fever. ” [ more › ]
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Video: Brooklyn Freaking Out Over Jersey Shore-Esque Reality Show
Photo: Architizer · The letter that spawned a FLW doghouse. [Architizer] · Zaha Hadid’s profits down thanks to Arab Spring. [Unbeige] · Churches for sale in upstate New York. [Brownstoner] · Ten towns turning things around after mortgage meltdown. [CNBC] · A railcar transformed into house for $89K. [CNN Money] · Ten novels about architects. [Architizer]
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Linkage: Letters to Frank Lloyd Wright; Arab Spring; Churches; More!
Following a series of adoring festival appearances around Europe and Australia last year, the best Britpop band not named Blur will make their first U.S. appearance since 1998 at Radio City Music Hall this spring! Pulp, who broke up in 2002 and reunited in 2011, will play Radio City on April 11th , along with a handful of other U.S. dates. And between Occupy Wall Street and stories of fat cat frat parties , what better time to break out into a sweaty singalong of the classic “Common People.” [ more › ]
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Do You Remember The First Time: Pulp Playing Radio City Music Hall!
T Magazine blog The Moment is running photos of Hotel Pelirocco, an English lodging where a former Marc Jacobs designer used 11 pounds of yarn to clad one of the guest rooms. Pretty rad, and overall tamer and much more manicured than the thoroughly crocheted apartment that Polish artist Olek debuted in NYC this spring. [The Moment; previously ]
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Recently those crazy cats over at Design Observer asked some architects to rethink popular children’s fairy tales in terms of their built structures. For NYC-based firm Guy Nordenson and Associates, the story in question was the Brothers Grimm (and most famous) version of Rapunzel; in particular, its “tower that stood in a forest and had neither a door nor a stairway, but only a tiny little window at the very top.” When asked about the key structural elements, the architects responded, “We were able to meet the Grimms’ strict design requirements by employing a slender tower design of vertical cylindrical stems that are joined by intermittent outrigger beams with a reinforced space at the very top for Rapunzel’s long captivity.” It’ll only be a matter of time before the architects themselves are drawn into the proposal; until then, see the full Rapunzel rendering below. Sketch via Design Obvserver Sketch via Design Observer · House on Chicken Feet, Part 3 [Design Observer via Architizer ] · Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, and FLW Now Star in Classic Fairytale [Curbed National]
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Architecture: Behold the Architect-Designed Version of Rapunzel’s Tower
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Philadelphia, Pa. Price: $1,285,000 The Skinny: Nestled above the dense thicket of Wissahickon Creek, the estate known as Spring Creek once inspired the poet Edgar Allen Poe to pen his famous essay “Morning on the Wissahiccon,” in which he bemoaned the herd mentality of early tourism. Built by Philly’s famous Rittenhouse family in 1730, the house itself was updated throughout the 19th-century and hosted lavish Centennial parties under the direction of then-owner and Ambassador to Britain John Welsh, who raised the interest and funds necessary to finance the 1876 festivities. Noted Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, trained under Louis Sullivan, designed many of the expansions, save for the recent addition of a modern kitchen, updated bathrooms, and central air. Offered for $1.285M, Spring Creek measures 7,500 square feet and sits on 1.62 acres, a far cry from the hundreds of acres the Rittenhouse family once owned along the Wissahickon. · 6700 Wissahickon Ave [Realtor.com]
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House of the Day: Where Edgar Allen Poe Wrote "Morning on the Wissahiccon"
Click here to view the full photogallery. Some smartypants brainiacs at the Preservation Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design have turned man-of-the-hour Ryan Gosling into a champion for the cause. In a brand-new Tumblr entitled Preservationist Ryan Gosling, the bedroom-eyed actor voices all manners of strong opinions on historic architecture and not tearing it down while managing to hit on you with the “Hey Girl” meme. Already the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has seen it and had a nice little chuckle. Have a look. · Preservationist Ryan Gosling [official site via @smheffern ] · National Trust for Historic Preservation [Facebook]
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