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nyc - new amsterdam plein & pavilion 4

nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:53:35 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:53:20 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:53:13 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:53:01 -0700

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A minor pickup for the SuperDutch collectors in the house - an expo pavilion, converted into a permanent snack stand, by UNStudio (set). Thanks to CB for putting me onto this one a while back. Can't add too much really.

nyc - recent misc buildings 6

nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:52:46 -0700

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One New York Plaza - William Lescaze & Associates, with Kahn & Jacobs. Finished 1969.

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:52:34 -0700

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A proper photo-tour of the Whitney will have to wait until the scaffolding comes down; in the meantime, I actually kind of like the effect it produces, at night anyway - a really bizarre kind of outdoor room with the 'drawbridge' suspended in the middle.

Whitney Museum of Art. Marcel Breuer, 1965-1974.

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:52:22 -0700

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Left: The Woolworth Building (Cass Gilbert, 1910-1913).
Right: One World Trade Center, (David Childs of SOM, et cetera, under construction).

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:52:11 -0700

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Little companion to our good friend the Long Lines Building: the Long Lines Building! The old one, that is - a memorably torqued Art Deco tower at 32 Avenue of the Americas. Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, 1932.

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:51:58 -0700

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The James Hotel, TriBeCa. ODA Architecture with Perkins & Will, circa 2007-2011. Formerly known as the Grand Street Hotel, 27 Grand, or, informally, the "Moondance Hotel" after a diner demolished on the premises to build this thingy.

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:51:47 -0700

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79th Precinct Police Station, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. Not sure on the architect/dates here, but opening up "Brutalist police stations" as a research topic could derail me for a number of months...

nyc - brooklyn telephone building 6

nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:01:48 -0700

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Now there's an idea about street frontage! Eighteen thousand gallons of kerosene! Yeesh.

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:01:09 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:18 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:59:29 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:58:32 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:57:57 -0700

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Like Ma Bell
I got the ill communication.
- The Beastie Boys

More Telephone Brutalism from Warnecke, and unfortunately this one doesn't quite manage the force of the Long Lines monument. A graceless lump, it broods over its site and awaits the day they finally load boiling oil into those vents and really teach the locals a lesson. This section of Williamsburg was not well-served by the Sixties and Seventies - the nearby Lindsey Park houses (1964) are an unfortunate step down from the lush and ambitious Williamsburg Houses (1936-38) and there are a number of missing-tooth vacant lots. The condo people seem to have finally noticed, though. Can't wait for the day they try to convert this into a "STYLISH LOFT LIVING EXPERIENCE!!! MINUTES FROM NYC!"

John Carl Warnecke, finished 1975. Corner of Lorimer & Meserole Streets, Brooklyn, New York.

nyc - 8 spruce street 7

nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:17:39 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:17:10 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:16:15 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Doctor Casino) — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:15:27 -0700

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