News: Development Doom

Black Sunday they called it... the day that two of the biggest American investment banks vanished from the market... following a crash on Wall Street similar to the point drop after 9/11. Everyone is holding their breath... anticipating the events to follow... but undeniably one thing is for sure, construction will get the first hit. Developers will have to shift gears... Does this mean that Manhattan will soon produce a new development product altogether? Are many of the new anticipated extraordinary projects come to a halt? We'll watch and learn... 

News: New kid on the blog...

Maybe not so new to his Facebook friends, but Yatzer.com is all about our favorite things... art, architecture, design and good photography! He says "design is to share" and that's what we do here... sharing this blog with you!

News: Taschen's new Tribute to Calatrava

the most luxurious publisher on all-things-art, Taschen, produced a monograph that retraces Calatrava's "career thus far and places his architecture in the context of his art, where nature meets engineering". It is surely a collectible book, since it portrays Santiago Calatrava in various lights, as an architect, an engineer and an artist and showcases all of his works so far. The architect created watercolor drawings specifically for the fold-out pages of this volume, illustrating the inspirations behind his designs.

News: Do you have an eye for Design?

Even if you don't... now you can have all things design with a blink of your eye... or at least with a click of your mouse! Interior designer, Alexandra Koumba, has created a design object hub online, where you can find any furniture piece of any style that represents your taste that you could possibly imagine... from Karim Rashid's new love seat (above) or the "Le Corbusier Chaise Longue" to out-of-this world collectable Louis IV antiques. The geniusness of this site is its dual target groups... One the one hand, it is aimed for the design-addicts that would kill to find an original Mies-Van-de-Roh Barcelona chair, since the site orders the objects from the most acclaimed galleries of the world and provides you with certificates of authenticity. On the other hand, one could just be inspired from the site's suggestions and discover pieces that would not ordinarily have found on one's own... Get an eye... here!

News: NYC gets online...

New York City's Department of Buildings has gone all techy by digitizing the design and construction process of the agency. It is quite an achievement, if you consider that the Department receives 300,000 papers monthly to be able to host online all kinds of construction permit applications and associated documents. As seen in the architect magazine, buildings commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster states "The paper age is over. We are now effectively creating virtual job folders online". Come to think of it, you just wonder how this development hadn't happened any time sooner...