December 2010
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A bit late: Year-End Awards: Architecture →
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I was already on the road (now snowed in in Vermont, with grandma, hot chocolate and plenty of cookies), but on Friday Mark Lamster and I handed out a few year-end awards.
A sampling:
Best Use of a Pritzker Prize: I.M. Pei scotches the fourth, 400-foot-tall Silver Tower proposed by NYU, suggesting only beloved elder statesmen of architecture have the power to slow the...
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NEED TO KNOW
From Curbed, re: the purchase of former club Studio B in Greenpoint:
“The anonymous buyer used the LLC name Dymaxion Ias. The nerds in the crowd will of course recognize Dymaxion as the brand name used by legendary architect/designer/crackpot Buckminster Fuller, such as on one of the worst cars of all time.”
PLEASE, please tell us the buyer is Sir Norman Foster.
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