The New York Times reports today that the Whitney is not only mildly interested in expanding downtown near the High Line: they are totally interested. Favorite near-sighted neighbor quote of the week: Now the Upper East Siders who vehemently opposed...
Tropolism is making connections. Today's relationships in news. First, the Dia Art Foundation--caretaker of rockin' artworks like the Earth Room and Broken Kilometer, in addition to an empty building on 22nd Street, and a huge factory-become-museum in Beacon, New...
In a record two months, what was a totally free of commercial taint artwork (at Burning Man, you know it's pure if it was there), has been done in a very similar fashion (without the burning part) at the Lexus...
Streetsblog has an in-depth post about a proposal to create better streets and public spaces in the area of Gansvoort Street, Manhattan. The proposal began its life in 2005 from the Project for Public Spaces, and has grown into a...
Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock investment bank submitted a winning bid for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village: $5.4 Billion. Some quotes from the New York Times article: Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee, called the sale...
Having grown up in Lima, Ohio, I have a soft spot for any building in the Midwest by a famous architect. The Wexner Center was a gift from the heavens, in all its glorious inanity, when placed in the desert...
As regular readers of Tropolism know, we have a low regard for contextualistical architecture regulations, public design review boards, and unnecessarily stringent historic preservation guidelines. We're champions of good architecture; sometimes it "fits in", sometimes it doesn't. Mostly it doesn't....
Greg Allen posts a gorgeous piece about Robert Smithson's lecture/slideshow/fictional narrative Hotel Palenque. He includes a link to a filmed recording of the 1972 event at the University of Utah, and impressions of what it is to see this...
BLDGBLOG points us to the artist Natalie Czech, whose series Blattschnitte are paintings (or watercolors? Tropolism's translation team took the holiday off) of aerial views. The views appear to be double exposures, much the way Charles Sheeler's later paintings, also...
You may remember during our summer vacation we were a bit obsessed about Richard Meier's first house. We even got pictures from the owner. Well, the owner has graciously photocopied a few pages from Richard Meier Houses which documents...
When we were writing for the Village Voice, we did a little piece about a house Paul Rudolph developed on East 58th Street. Today, we stumbled on a lovely slideshow showing the renovated house Paul Rudolph did for himself on...
