Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismI just came back from a walk in one of the most beautiful parts of Greenwich Village- May 17, 2008 Picture that in your mind. I'll bet you $1,000 that no one pictured NYU's Silver Towers. So why is NYU reinforcing I.M. Pei's anti-urban design, and why is the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation trying to prevent any changes to the block around it We need to understand that...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/i-just-came-bac.html Location, Location, Location: It's The Location, Stupid!- May 17, 2008 A GALLON OF SUPER costs more than $4 in many places, and that hurts when your truck or SUV gets 8 miles to the gallon. People who "drove to price" the last few decades (i.e., moved farther and farther from their jobs in order to get a bigger house they...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/location-locati.html The Best Way To Develop Atlantic Yards & Hudson Yards- May 14, 2008 RICHARD BRODSKY and I have been saying the same thing: why aren't more people listening to our words of wisdom The Atlantic Yards and Hudson Yards sites are being developed in the wrong way: instead of selling them to mega-developers like Forest City Ratner and Tishman Speyer (who are both...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/the-best-way-to.html Bloggers of the world, Unite!- May 14, 2008 THE NEW YORK OBSERVER published today a list of The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate. The list includes two New York blogger friends, Norman Oder (at number 77) and Lockhart Steele (91). As much as I like the idea of bloggers running the world, I think...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/bloggers-of-the.html Neo-Modernism, Back To The Future Again- May 12, 2008 IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED, that a young man in a good architecture school, must be designing 1960s-style buildings. That's the impression you get from Dwell, which I read recently in the airport. The issue I read featured sober, straightforward and attractive new houses that all looked like they...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/neo-modernism-b.html 1968, or 2008- May 9, 2008 THE ONLY WAY we know the second part of this video wasn't made in 1962 is that that it has techno-pop and retro-style personal computers. Royksopp - Remind Me (with Caveman)http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/1968-or-2008.html UPDATE: MAS chooses "Oppressive"- May 5, 2008 THE MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY says the Atlantic Yards site may actually look more like the image on the right for the next few years: Curbed has the details. along with a Reboot Poll that says "none of the above." MAS - Atlantic Lotshttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/update-mas-choo.html Festive, or Oppressive- May 5, 2008 A STORY IN TODAY'S DAILY NEWS presents revised designs for the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn, designed by Frank Gehry. Gehry calls the design "festive," and the photos are colorful. But imagine yourself as one of those little dots down on the sidewalk in the model. I think the chaotic...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/festive-or-oppr.html Rally to Stop Atlantic Yards - Saturday- May 2, 2008 Click here to enlarge letter: Brooklyn Speakshttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/rally-to-stop-a.html A Glutton for Punishment- May 2, 2008 NYU has released drawings for a proposed tower next to I.M. Pei's Washington Square Village sic. As always, Curbed has the story. A commenter on Curbed writes, "NYU obviously is looking for space, and it can only build up but I don't like towers in the park (at all) either."...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/05/a-glutton-for-p.html |