Notes from New York City #1

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1.
Architect’s home life.
Italian chromed steel electric fan by Enzio Pirali 1953. Donated to MOMA by Philip Johnson 1956.

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2.
New Cooper Union Campus Third Ave E7th St by Thomas Mayne of Morphosis opening this week, September 2009.

Mayne’s design, conceived with the belief that space can inspire learning, embodies Cooper Union’s intention to create an academic building that will have the same impact that the Foundation Building had on higher education in 1859 and that our Chrysler Building had on New York architecture in the 1930s George Campbell, President

We don’t have to take this seriously but it does make a great skate board ramp.

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3.
Skyscrapers horizontal and vertical
Williamsburg bridge & random NY building.

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