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eminent domain
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April 19th, 2012
TIMES SQUARE REVAMP What defines an edge condition? How is the street differentiated from the sidewalk? For the past couple...
Nicole Salazar takes us on a photographic journey of Willets Point and sketches its history and the controversy over its redevelopment.
In April 2006, recognizing how blogs had sprung up in response to the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, The New York...
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March 18th, 2011
LOW COST, HIGH SPEED SHELTERS
The Tokyo-based firm Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA), known for its ecologically sensitive, flexibly programmed structures, is seeking financial support for their effort to help victims displaced by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. SBA plan to deploy simple, cardboard and paper partition shelters, originally...
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June 25th, 2010
The Gates? Waterfalls? Those don’t make music! The latest large-scale public art installation to hit the five boroughs is a...
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December 4th, 2009
As you’ve probably heard by now, a state appeals court has barred the use of eminent domain for parts of...
Instead of our usual Wednesday feature, today we wish you a happy Thanksgiving holiday with an early edition of the weekly Omnibus roundup.


