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The East Harlem School at Exodus House

Architect Peter Gluck and EHS co-founder Ivan Hageman introduce us to a distinctive independent middle school and discuss why the design of learning environments matters.

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The Omnibus Roundup – Beaux Arts Ball, meet-ups, Floating Pool, billyburg walks

Welcome to a very out-and-about edition of the Roundup. Who says life slows down in the summer?

Tomorrow night come rage with us at the Architectural League’s Beaux Arts Ball at Omnibus home base The Old American Can Factory (tickets still on sale!). Why? Take…

MTS casts shadow on West Harlem Piers Park


The sun beamed through broken cloud last weekend on the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the West Harlem Piers Park, at 132nd Street on the west waterfront. But even as Mayor Bloomberg kicked off celebrations in his famously shaky Spanish, inclusively welcoming all communities to Harlem’s newest riverside spot, the dormant 135th Marine…

Touba in New York:
116th & Lenox

Anna María Bogadóttir makes visible points of connection between 116th Street, the international diaspora of the Mouride Brotherhood and the holy city of Touba, Senegal.

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