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Instantute’s Manhattan Studio, Fall 2009

by Tommy Manuel

Andrew Mac­Nair of the Instan­tute sent along the details of forth­com­ing Fall 2009 pro­gram for the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio. Hope to see you there!

Paint­ing by Andrew MacNair

Instan­tute announces the new Fall Man­hat­tan Stu­dio 2009 with two Stu­dio ses­sions: the first one runs from Sep­tem­ber 15 to Octo­ber 29; the sec­ond goes from Novem­ber 3 to December […]

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Snapshots from Shark Talk with David Shapiro, 06.23.09

by Tommy Manuel

Here are some snap­shots taken at last week’s Shark Talk with David Shapiro.  My apolo­gies for the poor qual­ity, but the light­ing wasn’t the best. It was a great evening with Shapiro shar­ing sto­ries of his long-time friend John Hej­duk, com­plete with imper­son­ations!  I was hop­ing we’d get around to Shapiro treat­ing us to the […]

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Apollo Seeks Daphne in Central Park

by Andrew MacNair

Photo by Femke MacNair

Daphne was Apollo’s first love. It was not brought about by acci­dent, but by the mal­ice of Cupid. Apollo saw the boy play­ing with his bow and arrows; and being him­self elated with his recent vic­tory over Python, he said to him, “What have you to do with war­like weapons, saucy boy? […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Week 3, Session 6

by Andrew MacNair

OBRA Architects, Jennifer Lee and Pablo Cas­tro
Thurs­day, June 25, 2009. 315 Church Street
At 318 Church Street just a block below always honk­ing Canal Street and around the cor­ner from Pearl Paint, Jen­nifer Lee and Pablo Cas­tro of OBRA Archi­tects gave us a tour of their office and a pic­ture show of their recent Red+Housing  —  just built […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Week 3, Session 5

by Tommy Manuel

More news from Andrew Mac­Nair and the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio, fea­tur­ing George W. Sweeney, Archi­tect.
Tues­day, June 23, 2009
We met at the square round­table in George Sweeney’s 16th floor pent­house office with views over mid­town toward the Empire State Build­ing. Suzanne Frank dis­cussed a study she is doing of “The New City” a cat­a­logue and exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Shanghai Cruise Ship Terminal

by Andrew MacNair

Frank Repas, Archi­tect: Week 2, Ses­sion 4  —  June 18, 2009

This project by Frank Repas is like the Grand Canyon. When you go from Man­hat­tan to the Grand Canyon, you drive for days, arrive in the end­less flats of the desert, ditch your car in the vast hot park­ing lot, wend your way through herds of ice cream […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Underground Space

by Andrew MacNair

Farm­ing in Aban­doned Sub­way Sta­tions: Week 2, Ses­sion 3  —  Tues­day, June 16, 2009
Con­sid­er­ing how much we think we know about city, it often takes an out­sider to come and show us some­thing about it that is new to us. Sean Taber, an archi­tect who recently moved to New York from Los Angles showed his ongo­ing under­ground study […]

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