Architecture – Page 4 – Walk with Me, Too

Deco on 42

Deco predominated 42nd Street at one time.

The tour ended with lunch al fresco to a jazz fest by the Sylvester Scott Trio. Once the drummer arrives, it will be the Sylvester Scott Quartet.

Sylvester Scott has an ‘art deco’ trumpet.

Textures

I don’t like the texture of the building on the southwest corner [1], but I find the red brick with the rounded balconies [2] pleasing.

This is the sort of opinion that falls under the category of taste.

Nostalgic

This is one of many iconic New York buildings.

In lunch conversation, as one thing led to another, my memory while active and ecletic still seemed as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

I could start an anecdote, but crucial details required a session with Google.

Filling in Fred MacMurray‘s role in Double Indemnity didn’t jog enough of the story. The point of it had been to detail Akim Tamiroff as a window washer in a very different MacMurray film, Honeymoon in Bali. But I offer too much information.

The detour into the movies was one path over lunch. The other was a recollection from my C.V. which had long been forgotten but is ever so pertinent to this Walk with Me, Too blog.

Eons ago, I was on a junior board at the Municipal Art Society with offices in the Lotte Palace Hotel at the Villard Houses.

MAS is one of several preservationist advocacy groups in our city.

Out or about

The Hungarian club is next to a church, and the Psychoanalytic Institute

The facade treatment for Manor82 and the church next door is self referenced.

The signs are still up, but I have already forgotten what was in this space.

Don’t know if I like the picket fence or the stripey guard house better.

Modern/ist

The lines and textures of this new HQ (relatively) for the Brearley School are very pleasing.

The eye enjoys this facade because it is dynamic. At least, that is my take on this subject.

There are conscientious touches like a green sustainable rooftop where students participate in planting. This makes Brearley a LEED Gold teaching facility.

The building design is the work of KPBM Architects. It was completed in 2019 as an expansion meant to link the building at 610 East 83rd with the new structure at 590.