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Architecture, Power, Gossip: Building Blocks of a Good Read
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And yet, what with anti-smoking laws, Bill and Monica’s kinky caper and a universal disinclination to call a spade a spade, the phallic interpretation is still going...
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Fashionable Living
“I think it is a departure from the ordinary developer buildings that are hailed as luxury,” said architect Annabelle Selldorf. “I feel strongly that this is going to be an exceptional residential...
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Johnson, Gehry, Meier: High-Rise Whores?
Nicholas and Alexandra. It was with mixed results that Gabriel Brewer, of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, quoted Philip Johnson: "I am a whore and I am paid very well for high rise buildings," the line...
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The Frank Gehry Show
Sydney Pollack and the late Philip Johnson. Last night, roughly 100 people attended the unofficial Tribeca Film Festival screening of Sketches of Frank Gehry, director Sydney Pollack's documentary on...
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People In Urban Glass Houses Throw Parties
Party like it's 1906 Any day is a good day to celebrate the life of the sleek Philip Johnson, but July 26 will be perfect. The developers of his final project, The Urban Glass House, are throwing a...
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Wednesday: Return of the Round-Up! And the End of Stuy Town? (And the Return...
Shiny happy 7 WTC We've been stirred from our week-long beauty sleep with the news that the 110 apartment buildings of Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village are on the block for $5 billion. The Times...
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A High Rollers’ Meat Market Only Does It Medium Well
How do you like your steak? Corn-fed or grass-fed? Grilled or roasted? Aged 28, 42 or 56 days? Wagyu? Grade 6 or grade 11? When I made my first visit to celebrity chef Tom Colicchio’s mega-restaurant...
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Mr. Goodbar's bombshell Tuesday Weld is selling her oceanfront Montauk home for about $10 million. She says, "It's like being on a yacht." [WSJ] Critic and architect Peter Blake is dead at 86. His...
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Lipstick Building Needs More Than Cosmetic Surgery
The Lipstick Building rises from the midtown skyline in sleek, tubular perfection. But its falls have been just as dramatic. Bernie Madoff once rode the gilded elevator to the 17th floor, from which...
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Marina Abramović Buys $2.65 M. Glass Box of Her Very Own
Try not to get blood all over your Annabelle Selldorf-designed interiors, Marina! Tilda Swinton may have stolen Marina Abramović voyeuristic thunder at MoMA with her sleeping-in-a-glass-box shows, but...
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