Category: Art

  • Summer 2013: Public Art in NYC

    Summer 2013: Public Art in NYC

      Pedro Pablo Silva passed away recently, and it seems only fitting that, in honor of the whimsical art that he created in collaboration with local communities, we highlight art in public spaces… New York City has been supporting art in public places since at least 1967. While some of this art is permanent, there…

  • New York’s other transit system. Sketches of the PATH.

    So I’ve been working recently in Newark. As a lifelong Long Islander (Brooklyn IS Long Island) I hadn’t actually had much of a reason to travel to Newark before (honestly we’re indoctrinated to not think of New Jersey too much), and had never much thought about the PATH. PATH stands for Port Authority Trans Hudson…

  • Using art to relieve bicycle congestion

    Using art to relieve bicycle congestion

    The Dutch city of Utrecht is no stranger to a phenomenon called “bicycle congestion”—a situation where infrastructural facilities for cyclists are used so much that their efficiency starts to suffer and negatively affects the cyclist’s biking experience (much like how congestion on roads affects motorists). Whether the congestion hits suggested bike lanes, seperated bike paths,…

  • Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012)

    Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012)

    Lebbeus Woods, a contemporary of Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind, died last year in New York City.  Shortly after Woods’ death, Austrian architect Wolf D. Pix said of him: “Lebbeus Woods was an architect’s architect: artistically uncompromising, unapologetically theoretical, and, in his own way, marvelously optimistic. Lebbeus’ death last month deeply saddened the architectural community.” Lebbeus Woods was a Professor of Architecture for…

  • Revisit Paris and New York, Courtesy of Airpano from Russia

    Revisit Paris and New York, Courtesy of Airpano from Russia

    AirPano Several photography buffs from Moscow started to photograph the famous monuments and cities with a 360 degree panoramic camera mounted on a small radio controlled helicopter like device.  These high-resolution films of the cities taken from a height of 50 to 250 meter are amazing to see.  Their panoramic views provide a detailed context to these monuments which is hard to get through a…

  • The Kimbell Art Museum celeberates 40 year anniversary

    I was in Dallas over the Christmas vacation and visited Kimbell Art Museum.  Louis Kahn’s building just celebrated its 40th anniversary and is in the process of constructing an extension designed by Renzo Piano.  The new addition is under construction and we would not know how it will measure up to Louis Kahn’s master piece.  I had been to…