may 8, 2010
Glen Oaks Branch Library Featured in Architectural League Exhibition
The City We Imagined/The City We Made:
New New York 2001-2010
may 7, 2010
Milstein Hall Under Construction
Check out progress on Cornell University's new Art Architecture and Planning building!
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Come Visit SAFARI 7 Base Camp @ Grand Central Terminal
Vanderbilt Hall / Grand Central Terminal
Mon.-Fri. 10AM-7PM; Sat. 10AM-5PM
apr 12, 2010
Artists find solutions for rising currents
Listen to the interview between Kai Ryssdal and Barry Bergdoll about MoMA Rising Currents exhibition on Marketplace website
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Read about Oyster-tecture in the New Yorker
sep 3, 2010
DEPT. OF CLARIFICATION: EARL VERSUS THE OYSTERS
By SAMANTHA HENIG
"...The oyster reefs, as imagined by Kate Orff, a landscape architect, would ease the impact of storms and filter pollution in the water. (Not addressed: who or what will filter out horrifying creatures in our tap water.) Orff’s fantastical future also includes a FLUPSY (for “flowing upweller system”) parade of oyster-filled boats along the Gowanus (which she bills as a cultural perk) and the Shuck Shack, where an imagined menu offers oyster po’ boys for seven dollars and Sixpoint Sweet Action for five, leading one to think that either a booming oyster future is within immediate reach or that Orff’s idealism extends to curbing inflation."
continue reading "Earl Versus the Oysters" at NewYorker.com
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