Archiculture

We donated $250 to this brilliant cause… but it also guarantees we can grab Cameron Sinclair for a few minutes if funded. We’ve been trying to nail him down for an interview for months now but he may be even be harder to catch up with than Obama. Here’s hoping he will do an interview for Archiculture while he is in New York in a couple weeks.

via: New York Magazine

It’ll be interesting to see where this discussion goes in an economically starved city looking for any form of new development.

“You can see in the renderings above how each side envisions the future of the skyline. In Vornado’s, each tower is clearly visible in all its illuminated splendor. Co-existence, hooray! But in the Empire State Building’s, it’s like 15 Penn Plaza has obliviously and obnoxiously lumbered in front of the Empire State Building while you were taking a photo. “Um, excuse me, sir — sir? — you are right in our way.” - NYmag

Thanks for the tip Sam.

Click and zoom into each Borough for finer details:

Slowly but steadily this city is learning to return to its water. We have such a long way to go especially in contrast to my former home of San Francisco. Enjoy clicking around the waterfronts of NYC.

Thanks for the tip David.

via: Discovery News

This is a brilliant concept by the folks up at MIT’s SENSEable Cities Lab which have just won the American round of the 2010 James Dyson Award for inventing the Copenhagen Wheel. The article goes on to illustrate just how far the US has to go in the use of bicycles as a viable means of transportation:

“The team of MIT students, lead by Christine Outram, opted to name their creation after the very bike-friendly city of Copenhagen. That says a lot about the depressing state of affairs of bicycling in America, where less than a half percent of people get to work each day by bike, according to the 2000 U.S. Census.”

Ode to the day when riding even in a city like NYC is not a war. Maybe products like this will help get all those “others” to start pushing themselves over the bridges and into the gauntlets of Manhattan. I’ll be waiting for the support.

Our buddies over at SOFTlab are gearing up to install and open their latest piece at the bridgegallery in the LES on August 26th. They cleverly used a Kickstarter pledge drive to raise the final $5,000 necessary for completion. We’ll be sure to be there opening night and hope you are to. By the way you can still get your name on one of the panels with a $5 donation!

Check this video for some of SOFTlab’s other work.

via: good.is

New York is fairing much better than my homeland of Ohio. However NY has got to get its act together on biking. It is currently 25th in bike use!?

via: 8-Bit City

Be sure to follow the link above to check out other cities such as San Francisco, London, Berlin, or Paris.

Thanks for the tip Leslie!

Shot on a Canon 5D mark ii, 7/2/10.

Shot on the Canon 5D mark ii Friday, 7/2/10

Source: NYDailyNews

Here is this years list of 10 ugliest buildings in New York City according to the New York Daily News.  Note: This list does not represent our top 10, but might inspire us to make one.

10. Former Bear Stearns World Headquarters, 383 Madison Ave.

9. T.G.I. FRIDAY’S, 604 Fifth Ave.

8. The Four Seasons Hotel, 57 E. 57th St.

7. Montefiore Apartments II, 3450 Wayne Ave., the Bronx

6. Training Center, Ironworkers Local 40 & 361, 35-23 36th St., Queens

5. Trump Place, between W. 66th and W. 70th Sts. west of West End Ave.

4. Trump Tower, 725 Fifth Ave. at E. 56th St.

3. 200 Eleventh Ave.

2. 520 W. 27th St.

1. Times Tower, The New York Times Building, Eighth Ave.