We're Back on Blogger - Well Almost

BIB — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:24:00 +0000

So we can post again, at last, not that we got a notification or anything - we just happened to be checking in. For now we are backing everything up to our own servers but to do that we had to use a 'classic' blogger template. If the blog is displaying strangely that will be why. While we try and figure it all out and get the design back up you can pop over to our standby here. We will let you know how you can back up your Blogger pages once we know it's worked for us! Thanks for your patience.

Desktop Day: Happy Hanukkah

BIB — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:21:00 +0000

Tuesday night saw the Hanukkah lighting ceremony at Grand Army Plaza. According to the Brooklyn Paper a competing ceremony was held at Borough Hall, WHERE THE MENORAH WAS ONE FOOT HIGHER (PWNED!). Click on the image to open the large version. The top picture is PC format and the bottom for the wider screen Mac.

Labels: desktop day, Grand Army Plaza, night, photography

Public Hearing on the Disposal of Admirals Row

BIB — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:05:00 +0000

On Tuesday there will be a chance to have a say and listen to proposals for the future of the threatened Navy Yard Admirals Row buildings. Hosted by Lt. Col. Mike Milord of the Air National Guard, the public hearing will take place ar P.S. 307 (202 York Street @ Gold Street in DUMBO). Tuesday Dec 11, 7PM - For information call 1-703-607-2780 or view the announcement here. Scott Witter, founder and curator of Brooklyn's Other Museum of Brooklyn, is fighting to have the historically and architecturally significant buildings landmarked. Maybe you saw his publicity drive at the weekend?

Labels: admirals row, Brooklyn, brooklyn navy yard, Clinton Hill, development, event, real estate, scott witter, wallabout

Brooklyn Public Library

BIB — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:24:00 +0000

The Brooklyn Public Library as you see here is by Githens and Keally and was completed in 1941. However there was a 1908 design by Raymond F. Almirall for a Beaux Arts structure. A skeleton was completed before financial problems halted the project, and so the later Art Moderne design had to stick to the Almirall form. The gilded reliefs are by Carl Paul Jennewein who also has murals in the spectacular lobby of the Woolworth Building.

Labels: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Public Library, night, photography

Facade

BIB — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:11:00 +0000

Labels: architecture, New York City, photography

Hot Bird Hanging On: Atlantic Yards Destruction Update

BIB — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:20:00 +0000

There's a new construction update on the 'Yards over at No Land Grab. We swung past on Saturday to find the Hot Bird building on Vanderbilt has survived so far. * Demolition is complete at 465 Dean Street (block 1127, lot 54). Clean up and back fill will be completed within this 2-week period. * Demolition is complete at 814 Pacific Street (block 1129, lot 45). Clean up and back fill will be completed within this 2-week period. * Demolition is complete at 538 Vanderbilt Avenue (block 1129, lot 46). Clean up and back fill will be completed within this 2-week period. * Demolition is underway at 546 Vanderbilt Avenue (block 1129, lot 54) and will continue for the next two–three months.

Labels: architecture, atlantic yards, Brooklyn, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, development, Forest City Ratner, hot bird, photography, real estate, update, vanderbilt avenue, Vanderbilt Railyards

Disgruntled Cow on Manhattan

BIB — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:28:00 +0000

This weekend I got to spend some time photographing Scott Witter's publicity drive for the Admirals Row Public Hearing. More details, and pictures, will follow. In the meantime visit www.brooklynsothermuseumofbrooklyn.com for information, and here for some pictures of the museum.

Labels: admirals row, Brooklyn's Other Museum of Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, demolition, demonstration, manhattan, photography, scott witter, wallabout

Desktop Day: Christmas Yards

BIB — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:31:00 +0000

Mac and PC versions of the holiday spirit down on the Atlantic Yards footprint.

Labels: 5th Avenue, atlantic yards, Brooklyn, Christmas, development, holidays, pacific street, photography, real estate

Ratner's Christmas Turn-On

BIB — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:04:00 +0000

Bruce Ratner (above left): Love child of Dick Cheney + Al D'Amato? (With a little bit of Norman Tebbit?) Bruce Ratner and his helpers (including Marty Markowitz, above right) were at Metrotech last night for the annual lighting ceremony.

Labels: Al D'Amato, Brooklyn, Bruce Ratner, Christmas, Dick Cheney, fear, Marty Markowitz, Metrotech, Norman Tebbit, separated at birth

Best Book Covers of 2007

BIB — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:56:00 +0000

We're getting to this a bit late, but Joseph Sullivan's Book Design Review has a lineup of the year's best book covers. All of them are good enough to eat: Love the cover-as-T-shirt mini-trend (for Unmarketable, left, as well as the splendidly titled Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History) and the abecedarian anthropomorphism of Salt. Yet more striking are those covers that don't actually include the title of the book in question: see Zbigniew Herbert lighting a cigarette for The Collected Poems, the matter-of-fact designs for The Little Girl and the Cigarette (right) and One Red Paperclip, or the terrifying cover of Fireproof, guaranteed to stop the bookstore browser in her tracks:

Labels: Anne Elizabeth Moore, Benoit Duteurtre, Book Design Review, graphic design, Joseph Sullivan, Raj Kamal Jha, Zbigniew Herbert

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