Category Archives: By design

I spy with my little eye

Never heard of New York Sun
Club. Lipstick Bldg behind
Lots of small to tall contrasts
Very appealing little bldg
Warehouse that once was?
This corner is new to me
Colors, textures, sizes, open facades, or closed facades, it’s a bustle.
The bend and the meet give this structure a unique flavor.
Yellow framed windows and repeated above where it hollows out to the roof.
My apologies to the homeless woman who cursed me out for taking her picture [without intention] and apologies for not seeing her
The way this facade hangs over the entry below gives its geometry a sense of its own context out of the context of the building on which it rests
Is there anything that says New York more than a truck with theatre (spelled just that way) writ large on its side.

Shaded

Just crossing from 79th Street to East End Avenue, I felt the cool comfort of the trees.

It wasn’t just the feeling that it was 10 degrees cooler here. It was also less humid.

Henderson Place is an oasis in my dreams. It’s a liitle village of little villas.

The original school building was not a thing of beauty, but it had its moments.

The upward expansion is just plain ugly or maybe not so n plain but especially ugly.

Of course, that’s my aesthetic opinion.