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Work Is Weird. Alison Green of Ask a Manager Can Help.

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After Doctors Cut Their Opioids, Patients Turn to a Risky Treatment for Back Pain

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When Medicines Affect a Child’s Mind and Behavior

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Recognizing Eating Disorders in Time to Help

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Mother of Dead Woman Says Medics Told Her She Could Not Afford Ambulance

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Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck“We created...

Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck


Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck


Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck


Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck


Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck

Brand Identity for Georgie Boy by Mildred & Duck

“We created a wordmark and subsequent visual identity to celebrate the spacial thinking with which Georgie Boy approach their work; the resulting identity can be viewed and appreciated from all angles in much the same way as the floral installations GB create. Inspired by Gina’s appreciation for the diversity and unique qualities of all plant life, we created a pattern based on electron microscope slides of plant cells which was then bronze foiled onto the business cards as a counterpoint to the otherwise type-driven identity.”

Mildred & Duck is a Melbourne-based graphic design and communication studio established by Sigiriya Brown and Daniel Smith. They design for print, digital and environmental media, creating solutions that communicate and connect with people. They work across a variety of sectors with a range of clients, from startups to established organizations, continually delivering thoughtfully crafted outcomes regardless of scope or budget.

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When Being a Good ‘Dad’ Gets You Promoted to ‘Mommy’

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Weekly Health Quiz: Weight Gain, Cancer and Deadly Dog Food

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Taking Marriage Class at Guantánamo

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Getting Real About Periods, Breast-Feeding, Menopause and More

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Clean, Sober and $41,000 Deep in Out-of-Pocket Addiction Recovery Costs

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I Came Out to My Family, and It Went Great. Except for My Brother

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How to Help a Teenager Be College-Ready

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Listen: Mike Colter Reads ‘Superheroes, Just for Each Other’

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New Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Big Promise in Early Trial Results

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Men Are Freaking Out About Their Sperm

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Exercise Makes the Aging Heart More Youthful

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Cauliflower, Kale and Carrots May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

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The Mystery of End-of-Life Rallies

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Summer Break

It's time to get out into nature and enjoy the summer. So this blog is going on break for a couple weeks. See you in August!



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When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health

A growing body of research suggests that our bodies function optimally when we align our eating patterns with our circadian rhythms.

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Alternative Cancer Treatments May Be Bad for Your Health

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Our National Parks: Breathtaking and Polluted

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For Scientists Racing to Cure Alzheimer’s, the Math Is Getting Ugly

To find 25,000 participants to enroll in all the approved trials, researchers would have to begin by approaching more than 37 million people with early memory loss.

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As Easy as Riding a Bike

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How to Minimize Pancreatic Cancer Risk

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Chemicals in Food May Harm Children, Pediatricians’ Group Says

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Book Review: Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures

Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures by Christian Wassmann
Koenig Books, 2017
Hardcover, 136 pages



A few pages into this case study of Christian Wassmann's Sun Path House -- a freestanding backyard addition to a house in Miami Beach -- is the architect's sketch of the Great Samrat Yantra in Jaipur, India. Wassmann description of the astronomical observatory makes it clear it had a strong influence on him, both during his education, when he saw photos in a book, and at the beginning of his practice, when he visited it in person. Therefore, the link between the 18th-century sundial in India and Wassmann's aptly named Sun Path House, which is anchored -- literally and figuratively -- by a curved concrete wall that traces the arc of the sun on the summer solstice, is readily apparent. But another earlier project comes to the fore in my mind: Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye.


[Spread from Studio Christian Wassmann Studio | Image source]

Although Villa Savoye needs no description here, its three-story organization is what I hone in on, where I see the link between it and the Sun Path House. Villa Savoye's ground floor is set back, creating a turnaround for an automobile; the first floor "floats" above it, enclosing the living spaces and bedrooms; and the roof terrace features curved walls that create a sense of enclosure beneath the sky and frame views of its suburban surroundings. Likewise, the Sun Path House's ground floor is covered by the cantilevered (no pilotis needed) floor devoted to the client's master bedroom upstairs, while the roof is given over to a solarium with jacuzzi. Uniting these three levels is the curved concrete wall that was born from the solstice sun path and curls tightly to cradle a spiral stair further linking them.


[Spread from Studio Christian Wassmann Studio | Image source]

So Sun Path House can be seen as a contemporary reinterpretation of Le Corbusier's modernist villa, but on a smaller scale and in a different context. Yet I also see Wassmann's house as a convergence of the celestial and the human. With his desire to link his architecture to the cosmos, it's realistic to expect something along the lines of Charles Ross's Star Axis, where the "architecture" is ordained more than it is designed. But Wassmann intersects a rectangular volume (the master bedroom) with the curved sun path, giving the client a functional space for living and creating a tension between these cosmic and human realms.


[Spread from Studio Christian Wassmann Studio | Image source]

Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures is really two books in one: a case study of Wassmann's small yet ambitious house in Florida and a monograph on his young practice (est. 2005). Other projects, mainly art exhibitions and gallery projects, are interspersed with thorough documentation of the Sun Path House. The former are short one- or two-page descriptions, while the latter includes drawings, models, and photos of the building during construction and after completion. Linking the Sun Path House and other designs are a predilection for cosmic and local alignments. The whole is packaged handsomely in a linen cover with heavyweight pages.



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A 3-Year-Old Died at a Texas Day Care. Here Are Ways to Keep Your Child Safe.

A boy died recently after being left in a day care van, an accident that officials said was avoidable. We looked at how to evaluate a day care program and assess its safety standards.

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Bayer Will Stop Selling Essure Birth Control Implants

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Lessons From Burberry

Last year’s annual report from Burberry announced that the company has burnt £28.6m ($37.2m in U.S. dollars) worth of bags, clothes and perfume to protect its brand. Unluckily for them a savvy journalist spotted this in their 2017 annual financial results. But what most consumers and even fashion professionals don’t realise is that this is […]

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Weekly Health Quiz: Sleep, Bones and Travel Ills

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

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Mourning the Loss of a Sibling Rival

My brother had special needs and could quickly veer from loving to violent. When he died, I grieved for him and also for the loss of the possibility of a closer relationship.

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Please Take My Son’s Wallet

A life cut short is revealed through reward cards, drink coupons and arcade passes.

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Women, Stop Volunteering for Office Housework!

If you think that raising your hand for tasks you’re not really into will pay off at some point in some way, think again.

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My Stepmother? But She’s 19!

When your father, who’s in his 60s, is engaged to a much-younger woman, it’s not crazy to be concerned. But things could also work out just fine.

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Parents Aren’t Good Judges of Their Kids’ Sugar Intake

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What Surfing With My Niece Taught Me About Life

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Write Your Own Obit

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Ecological Living Module at the UN

This morning I visited the United Nations to see the Ecological Living Unit. The "tiny house," which was designed to be "efficient, multi-functional and engineered to operate independently," is a collaboration between UN Environment, Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, and Gray Organschi Architecture. Below is a quick tour of the ELM with my photos.


The west-facing facade is covered in a "Microfarming Wall" that is irrigated by rainwater that hits the angled planters but also by rainwater collected on the roof.




These two photos show the solar panels on the sloped roof and the sliding glass wall at the narrow, south-facing porch with its shallow overhang.



Another sliding glass wall opens on the east side to aid in passive ventilation.



A peek inside reveals shadow patterns from the skylight, a wood-lined interior, built-in seating, and a ladder up to the sleeping loft.



The skylight doubles as an Integrated Concentrating Solar Facade (ICSF), which produces electricity and captures solar energy "as heat for domestic hot water, space heating, and solar cooling," per the ELM handout available at the UN.



The north end of the sleeping loft features a translucent clerestory above an Indoor Purification Plant Wall that is meant to improve indoor air quality.



Behind the first-floor kitchen and sleeping loft on the north side of the building is the ELM's data and systems nerve center.



Here, the various power, water, and computer controls are efficiently packed into a small closet accessed from outside.



The construction is primarily wood, with locally sourced plywood, LVL, CLT, framing, furring, and siding – even wood fiber insulation is used in the walls, floor, and roof.





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Listen: Cameron Esposito Reads ‘A Hiker’s Guide to Healing’

On this week’s podcast, the actress and comedian tells the story of a woman’s 2,650-mile road to recovery after her sexual assault.

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Meditation Journeys

Allow yourself to be transported to some of California’s most spectacular vistas and take a moment to meditate on the tranquil sights and sounds of nature in this 360-degree experience.

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Heart Failure May Be More Lethal in Women

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Ticked Off

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To Stretch or Not to Stretch? Athletes Put It to the Test

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Getting ‘Consent’ for Sex Is Too Low a Bar

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An Aspirin a Day for Heart Health? It May Depend on Your Weight

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Is Going to My Dream College Worth It?

A teenager in love worries that following her ambition and going long-distance will jeopardize her relationship.

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Sleep Tied to Teenagers’ All-Around Health

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How To Get Your Intuition Back (When It’s Hijacked By Life)

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At These Hotels and Spas, Cancer Is No Obstacle to Quality Care

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How to Leave a Legacy When You Don’t Have Children

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Brand Identity & Packaging for Lunch by Bunch“Born out of...

Brand Identity & Packaging for Lunch by Bunch


Brand Identity & Packaging for Lunch by Bunch


Brand Identity & Packaging for Lunch by Bunch


Brand Identity & Packaging for Lunch by Bunch

Brand Identity & Packaging for Lunch by Bunch

“Born out of Bunch, Lunch is a production studio providing bespoke services for design for a diverse range of clients and budgets. For over a decade they’ve been building relationships with a vast network of production houses and specialists, working closely alongside them to produce our work.”

Bunch is a design studio offering a diverse range of work including identity, literature, art direction, digital and motion. Established in 2005 with an international reach, from London to Zagreb, Bunch delivers intelligent and innovative cross-platform solutions of communication design.

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Book Review: Downward Spiral

Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison edited by Celeste Olalquiaga and Lisa Blackmore
UR (Urban Research), 2018
Paperback, 268 pages



If any decade could be called "the driving decade" it would definitely be the 1950s. Domestically, it encompassed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which saw the federal government pay for thousands of miles of highways, many barreling through cities. In turn, buildings downtown had to be designed and reconfigured for the automobile. One bold example, which was proposed in 1959 and built five years later, was William Tabler's "Motor-Pool Hilton" in San Francisco, which wrapped a hotel around a parking garage; people could drive up the ramp and park right next to their room. But a look at the building disappoints, since the automotive aspect driving the design -- turning it into a hybrid between a hotel and a motor lodge -- is hidden. To see a true auto-architecture around the same time, one would have had to travel to Caracas, Venezuela, to see El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya, a spiraling mall carved from a hilltop, where shoppers drove up the ramp to the shop they wanted to patronize.


[El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya, 1965. Photo: Paolo Gasparini]

I learned about El Helicoide last year when the Center for Architecture displayed the small, one-room exhibition El Helicoide: From Mall to Prison. I wrote about the exhibition for World-Architects after attending a tour given by curator Celeste Olalquiaga. My piece traces the evolution of the project designed by Venezuelan architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez in the late 1950s, so I won't go into too much detail here on the project's history. But suffice to say, what started as an optimistic mixed-use building -- with shops plus offices, a hotel, and a geodesic dome on the roof, all accessed by the system of ramps that made up the project's expression -- turned into its antithesis, a building occupied by the police and used as a prison housing political dissidents. The exhibition and book focus on the gestation of the building -- one of the most unique in the period but also one of the most underappreciated -- as well as its design and the larger context in which it fits, while also exploring how the project devolved in the decades following its near-completion.



With more than twenty essays in five sections -- Lost in Time, Geometric Detours, Informal Topographies, Cursed Towers, and Living Ruins -- Downward Spiral is the definitive cultural history of El Helicoide. The spiraling building was devoid of such in-depth treatment until Celeste Olalquiaga, Lisa Blackmore and others at Proyecto Helicoide devoted their energies to "promoting the architectural, cultural and social value of El Helicoide ... a global icon of the contradictions of modernity." If the exhibition's period photos, drawings, and other artifacts painted a visual portrait of El Helicoide (thankfully, many of them are published in the book), Downward Spiral enables scholars from Venezuela and elsewhere to provide depth on a building that should be known to a wider audience, both for its architectural ambition and its eventual misappropriation.


[Michael Sorkin, publisher of Urban Research, and Celeste Olalquiaga at the launch for Downward Spiral at the Center for Architecture in January. Bad low-res photo by John Hill.]



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Blood Pressure Medicine Is Recalled

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Writing Prescriptions to Play Outdoors

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When to Get Your Bone Density Tested

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Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord“Mahlo is serious...

Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord


Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord

Brand Identity for Mahlo Bar by Gabby Lord

“Mahlo is serious about brunch, while not taking themselves too seriously. We created a fun and quirky identity which extended as far as coffee packaging, copywriting, mural painting and everything in between. Personified, the Mahlo brand is someone you can have fun with and relax around. At Mahlo Brunch Bar you can be sure you’ll always come welcome and you’ll always leave full.”

Gabby Lord is a small human with a boss surname. More importantly, an Australian graphic designer living and working in Berlin. Passionate about design for print and screen, she works on a diverse range of projects and have been fortunate to work on local and global brands at leading design studios.

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Sex Ed, for Grown-Ups

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Breast-Feeding or Formula? For Americans, It’s Complicated

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Today's archidose #1008

Here's a photo of the Amager Resource Center (2017) in Copenhagen, Denmark, by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group. The photo, by Jeff Reuben, is looking toward the waste-to-energy plant from Christiania. Although the plant is obviously functioning, the ski slope – Copenhill – that sits atop it won't be complete until later this year.



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Weekly Health Quiz: Water, Dogs and Positive People

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

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When Pink Ballet Slippers Won’t Do

As a woman of color who has for years mixed foundation to match my skin tone as an act of self-love, I view tinting ballet shoes as an act of love for my daughter.

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What Boxing Taught Me About Love

After being assaulted in a park, a young woman sought refuge in marriage. When that didn’t work, she stepped into the ring.

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How Parents Solve Summer

We put the question to Times readers: What are your kids doing this summer? Here are some answers.

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Multivitamins May Not Provide Heart Benefits

An analysis found no ties between multivitamins and the risk for cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease or stroke incidence or mortality.

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Take a Walk in the Woods. Doctor's Orders.

‘Forest bathing,’ or immersing yourself in nature, is being embraced by doctors and others as a way to combat stress and improve health.

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Isn’t 10 a Little Young for Highlights?

A reader wonders how to acknowledge a boyfriend’s daughter’s dyed hair without imposing judgment.

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TexSelect 2018

TexSelect is a charitable platform which aims to bridge the gap between education and industry. The unique mentorship programme introduces outstanding textile design graduates to buyers, press and sponsors at their London Preview, shortly followed by Premiere Vision Paris. Trendstop attended the preview at Chelsea College of Arts to bring you an exclusive insight into […]

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Running After a Heart Attack

Today, many doctors prescribe exercise for their patients who have had a heart attack.

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How to Make This the Summer of Missing Out

What’s happening? Who cares. Meet JOMO, FOMO’s benevolent younger cousin.

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Listen: Cory Michael Smith Reads ‘Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself’

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Rosario Candela, Sutton Place, and 'Elegance in the Sky'

[All photos by John Hill, unless noted otherwise]

Although the 57th Street tour I've given in recent years focuses on the tall towers of "Billionaire's Row," my walk goes all the way from river to river, starting at a small plaza overlooking the East River and ending at 12th Avenue near the Hudson River. Extending the tour to 2.5 miles enabled it to embrace such projects as BIG's VIA 57 West overlooking the Hudson and to historically contextualize the supertall residential towers that have sprung up this century in the blocks of 57th Street between Park Avenue and Broadway. In the case of the latter, Sutton Place (named for the north-south avenue that intersects 57th Street just shy of the East River) is a quiet residential neighborhood with townhouses and apartment buildings from the early 1900s. A couple apartment buildings in Sutton Place were designed by Rosario Candela, a prolific residential architect at the time and the subject of Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela, a small exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.



Candela's most important contribution to Sutton Place was 1 Sutton Place South, located on the southeast corner of 57th Street and Sutton Place. As depicted in the photos from the exhibition above, 1 Sutton Place South and its porte-cochere faced Sutton Place, while the rear of the apartment building and its private garden overlooked the East River. In the 1930s, the double-decker FDR Drive was built in the area of Sutton Place, leading to the construction of small parks at the end of 56th, 57th, and 58th Streets – a swap for the land the city was taking away. (The 58th Street park is the location of the famous shot of the Queensboro Bridge from Woody Allen's Manhattan.) This century, a chunk of the private garden at 1 Sutton Place South is being taken for a new park area that will link the parks at 56th and 57th Streets.


[Site plan from NYC Parks]

On the north side of 57th Street between Sutton Place and 1st Avenue is another Candela building, 447 East 57th Street. It also had a private garden, as the ad below illustrates, but it was located on an infill lot to the west of the building, next to a townhouse. This garden ensured light and air to the corner units on the west side of the building. The garden was accessible by the three-story unit at the base of the building. Most famously it was occupied by Tina Brown, the former editor of New Yorker and Vogue, who used it to entertain VIPs and sold it just last month for nearly $7 million.


[Advertisement for 447 East 57th Street in the New York Times, scanned from Sutton Place: Uncommon Community by the River by Christopher Gray]

Brown and other tenants of 447 East 57th Street tried – unsuccessfully, as the photo below attests – to stop the demolition of the neighboring townhouse and subsequent erection of a 15-story glassy building designed and developed by Flank. The sliver of space between 441 and 447 is apparent in the photo below, though we can only imagine the views back and forth between the residences in these contrasting through equally expensive buildings. Any bitterness between the residents of the Candela and Flank buildings surely subsided in recent years, though, as the Sutton Place community banded together to halt construction of an 800-foot-tall tower on the lot directly north of 441 East 57th Street. As of last month, Sutton 58 will move forward and, barring any successful appeals, will bring skinny supertalls to Sutton Place, more than four blocks east of Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue.



So even as the land around these two Rosario Candela buildings in Sutton Place is seeing both slight (park) and dramatic (supertall) changes, the appeal of his early 20th century apartment buildings is lasting. No surprise then that he is the subject of an exhibition, albeit a small one, at the Museum of the City of New York. Elegance in the Sky, on display until October 28, "revisits the setback terraces and neo-Georgian and Art Deco ornament of Candela-designed high-rise apartments." Fittingly, the exhibition is curated by MCNY's own Donald Albrecht and was designed by the traditionally minded Peter Pennoyer Architects.



I liked learning a little bit on the Sutton Place apartment buildings in the exhibition, though I was disappointed by one detail that seems to have gotten past Albrecht and Pennoyer. Most of the buildings detailed in the exhibition (a small fraction of his roughly 75 buildings) have floor plans accompanying the photographs of the building exteriors and interiors. But many of the apartments are duplexes, and with only one plan per building any dissection of the plans (fun for any architect) is incomplete; either living or bedroom levels are presented, never both. So, like the gap between 441 and 447 East 57th Street, we're left to imagine the other halves of the apartments in these small but significant voids in the exhibition.



from A Daily Dose of Architecture https://ift.tt/2ubIs9Z