I suspect everyone who’s wandered around New York — or any major city, really — has had the experience of walking past a payphone and wondering about its fate. Public phones often strike me as the ultimate objects in transition, relics from a pre-digital age dotting the cityscape. It may be a coincidental sign of the times that the vendor contracts for New York City’s more than 11,000 (!) payphones will expire next year.
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Design consultancy Pensa’s new video concept explores on-the-go charging stations for our gadgets.
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The High Line Section 2 is New York City’s latest stab at utopia, so it only makes sense that people love it. But maybe they love it a little too much? Gothamist publishes a photo essay of couples canoodling on the High Line lawn, and all of a sudden, the lawn gets closed for cleaning. Cleaning of what, exactly?
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Section 2 of the High Line, an elevated railway running down Manhattan’s Tenth Avenue renovated by architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro that has quickly become an urban design icon, opens to the public today. But visitors to the park yesterday were greeted with a soft-opening preview, complete with popsicle vendors, public art projects and plenty of opportunities to lounge in the grass. The new section may not cause as much stir as the launch of the first, but the 10-block stretch from 20th to 30th street is full of subtle surprises, from flyover walkways to hidden forests.
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The General Theological Seminary in Chelsea (located on Ninth Ave between 20th and 21st Street) was established in 1817 and remained a holdout of patrician architecture for almost 2 centuries. Now, to relieve its mounting debt, the seminary is selling off buildings and land to luxury developers. The designs for the latest redevelopment were just released by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, and guess what? They look terrifyingly bland.
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