More on Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Coop himmel-blau had an article in the sunday LA Times about their school for the arts that is starting construction, across the 101 freeway, but still on Grand ave. The New school is...
I found this one in the Paper version of WIRED Magazine. The Borough of Queens is looking to redevelop Landing Lights Park, a half mile strip of land adjacent to LaGuardia Airport. Side stepping a more traditional approach, the...
In honor of Jane Jacobs, our friends at PolisCurbed (Lisackhart?) have joined forces to create the Street Ballet Contest. The intention is to "celebrate the street ballet of your favorite block", and to elicit your own spin on Jane...
In rememberance of Jane Jacobs, Lisa at Polis proposes a gathering at 555 Hudson Street in the West Village between Perry and W. 11th, where she lived and created The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Drop Lisa a...
Jane Jacobs died this morning in Toronto. Tropolism has mentioned her only once, but in one of our favorite entries. So much has been written about her, it seemed hardly necessary to mention her hovering over everything we do....
Yesterday saw the announcement by the Related Companies and Frank Gehry of the development of Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles. Curbed LA has a lot of word-on-the street, but it's the New York Times article that has us mildly...
Back in the day we announced the publication of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture [PA Press, we're still waiting for our review copy!]. Today we see that the National Building Museum will open an exhibit of...
Robert Yaro, produces a lovely piece on what New York might do to add the million to million and a half new New Yorkers expected over the next twenty-five years. Because many parts of New York CIty are already...
While not really a Tropolism story per se, we are intrigued to pick up the new issue of Vanity Fair, featuring celebrities who are active on environment issues. We're hopeful that there will be some celebrities talking about good...
Today, Tropolism is one year old. A year ago (technically April 22, 2005, but that's on a weekend this year, yo), in the darkness of pre-launch and pre-URL, we made our first timid post into the ether. This year...
We like to stay away from Ground Zero news, because it's just really depressing. 7WTC, we like. News, no. What a complicated city we live in. Who would have thought that a terrorist attack would result in a decade...
Given my time at Columbia University's graduate school in the middle 1990s, when buildings rendered as clouds were de rigueur, I tend to skip over news that OMAKoolhaas designed a bubble for the 2006 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. I skipped...
Perhaps it was all my upbringing on post-structuralist fiction surrounding abandoned carnivals that is the source of this fascination. No matter, perhaps you share such a fascination, too! The fine folks at Mountain7 have a lovely abandoned-carnival slideshow to...
Rue marcel proust--some of the better housing around Paris... all are encouraged to look up the plan on google earth--maybe 1 or 2 directly km s.e. of the periphery--you'll find it. From time to time we’re all compelled to...
The best part of the open-source part of Your Hidden City is the diverging views of the jury. Each of the jury members was selected because they were enthusiastic about the possibility of having our readers give us a glimpse...
I rode the A Train to the end of the line from Times Square. It's amazing that the same train that goes through the middle of one of the world's busiest cities also rides along a quiet, lonely beach....
« Shadows lurking in the windows are watching every step of the careless newcomer, preying on him, waiting for the dark to engulf him. Then, the fear comes. » This yard is where you end up when you exit...
A dark alley, illuminated by a lone lamp leads you uphill to the ruins of an old medieval house (not in the picture) closely resembling a castle. Locals pass by this place everyday without considering the strong mysterious atmosphere...
one of the most amazing things about this city is remembering to look up and seeing the most extraordinary ceilings above the most ordinary of settings. The jury has voted, and the winners have won! Your Hidden City Best...
We attended the High Line groundbreaking today. Unfortunately for our readers, our invitation was only for the proletariat groundbreaking on the ground. The real groundbreaking, with Senators and our Mayor, you'll have to read about at Curbed. After the jump,...
Our post about the new installation at Materials and Applications inspired a friend at Drowninginculture to send in his gorgeous snaps of the bamboo piece. Click "Continue Reading" so see a more Gilligans Island version (complete with LA hippie...
This week is Pretty Pictures Week! at Tropolism. Also Known As: Totally Subtle Buildup to Announcing the Winners to Your Hidden City (we didn't forget, yo!)....
The main reason for my attendance at the awards ceremony for the MASterwork award for 55 Water Street was to, of course, see 7WTC. No, it wasn't to hear Larry Silverstein sell us on the latest Halle Barry movie....
Our previous entry about skylines appears pathetic and sad next to the dazzling photographs of unlabeled skylines at this site. Who knew St. Louis looked so lovely at night? Warning: the site is maddeningly slow. But the pictures are...
The latest installation at Materials and Applications had its formal reception this weekend. Although the Bamboo Bridge has been present for a week or two, this was the first time many people creaked their way across the bridge over...
Given our predilection for artists like Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Olafur Eliasson, it will come as no surprise that we are also fans of Rachel Whiteread. Her work always appears underdone at a distance, only to belie themselves...
Leave it to the ever-brilliant Choire Sicha to collapse Tropolism's categories in a single article. New York, Celebutantes, Public Effect, Theaters, and Writing Architecture. All we need is a location: Governor's Island. Mr. Sicha does a fascinating comparison of...
