October 2010
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Gehry's West Side Highway IAG shines at night
Frank Gehry’s sculptural language may have become out of style without stainless steal and free floating shapes to help. The IAG Building on the West Side Highway was on the cutting edge of the now starkitecturally prominent buildings going up along both the newly opened Highline Park and West Side Highway. But where the IAG building stands out is at night when the gradient glass glows. What...
March 2008
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Placism
New York is a placist city that needs to be escaped occasionally. Placism is racism of place, or a sort of illogical preference for one place over another. Where most city inhabitants prefer their own geography to the cities of others. In Mexico City they have a term for people who live in Puebla, a beautiful city 2 hours distant. “Pipope” stands for pinche pueblano pendejo, the...