I know I shouldn’t be interested in architecture as moneymaking machines. Even as a guilty pleasure, it’s increasingly not that much fun. I’m obviously an addict. This may be the last of this series of posts. You’ll understand why at the end. I thought my undergraduate first year architecture history book may have been my […]
An investment manager, a property developer and an architect walk into a room full of people wanting to hear what the architects have to say about co-living. Co-living had been a thing around 2016 but, come 2020 and Covid19, everyone shuddered at the thought of touching doorhandles other people might have touched, let alone sharing […]
They don’t always have to be supertall superslenders. We are in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. and looking at a residential project called One Hundred, by Studio Gang. It’s the kind of thing I try to discourage students from dreaming up. It’s eye-catching in a scale-confounding kind of way but so much effort has been expended […]
Ever since Rafael Vinoly’s 432 Park Avenue [c.f. Moneymaking Machines #1: 432 Park Avenue] and the ensuing ruckus over planned supertalls casting shadows over Central Park, we’ve known of Central Park Tower at 225 West 57th Street that some people insist on terming “Billionaire’s Row” as if it was a good thing, apt though it […]
The 2005-06 competition for the design of Absolute Towers in Mississagua just outside Toronto in Canada was a privately-run competition open to anyone interested in entering. The following jury shortlisted six proposals from 92 entries. Ed Sajecki, civil engineer and professional planner, founding partner of LinkedIn Larry Beasley, urban planner, formerly Co-Director of Planning for […]
