by julia-spande | Feb 15, 2022 | Reviews of a Place
I was sixteen when I first saw the Oculus. It had opened to the public months before in March of 2016, but I hadn’t heard about it. At sixteen I had the single-mindedness of the briefcased men I commuted into Manhattan with each day. I took one of two LIRR trains,...
by zoepottinger | Feb 8, 2022 | Reviews of a Place
In the late 1940s, French designer Jean Prouvé created a prototype for a steel and aluminum prefabricated house to be sent in pieces to the French colonies in what is now Niger and Congo. Prouvé’s architecture contemporaries lauded the houses as marvels of modern...
by samclark | Apr 2, 2021 | Reviews of a Place
The form of the rocket ship only becomes a part of the landscape when something has gone irretrievably wrong. Circle around it for a moment, listening, hoping bat-like that a stray noise will give shape to its unfathomably shrouded interior. See the...
by clairepotter | Apr 2, 2021 | Reviews of a Place
Everett Avenue begins at the entrance to a limestone palace guarded by rows of stone goddesses and Ionic columns. The street runs for three blocks before it comes to a dead end in a shaded cul-de-sac. The neat rows of three-story brick apartment buildings, parked...