Posted in Misc on May 23rd, 2008
Yesterday I posted an announcement & a Brooklyn bridge image (click here to see that and links to this weekend’s festivaties). This posting has some images from last night’s 125-year birthday party for the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Impact (a musical group up for an academy award), and Marvin Hamlisch all performed.
Early arrivals got [...]
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Posted in Misc on May 22nd, 2008
The 125th year birthday celebration for Brooklyn Bridge starts today, Thursday, May 22.
DUMBO is the place to be for fireworks, new lighting, a Navy flyover, and a free concert. Various events will continue through the weekend.
Bring your picnic and enjoy.
Tonight’s timeline:
6:00pm: Doors open
7:45pm: Concert starts
9:00pm: Fireworks
Brooklyn Philharmonic will play with guest performance by [...]
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Posted in Misc on May 14th, 2008
Architect Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works spoke Monday night in Portland. I was busy packing for my 2-week trip to New York, so I missed the talk. But several bloggers covered it.
Art Scatter reviews the talk at:
http://www.artscatter.com/general/a-little-brad-cloepfil-wisdom-coming-your-way/#more-217
Portland Architecture ’s Brian Libby reviews the talk at:
http://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2008/05/cloepfil-plays.html
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Posted in Misc on Feb 12th, 2008
I tossed a couple of ideas into PORT’s Portland bridge design contest, see PORT’s bridge award here. PORT shows a few of my jpgs and some other interesting designs.
The 2nd and 3rd jpegs are the same design, except at night and in low winds a screen/sail is unfurled to allow art to be [...]
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Posted in Misc on Nov 15th, 2007
There is a new tower proposed for Midtown Manhattan right next to MoMA. Jean Nouvel is the architect for this proposal. What is proposed would also give MoMA about 40,000 square feet of additional gallery space in the new tower. A NYT article has more details and some images.
I’m heading to New York tomorrow [...]
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