October 24, 2009
An 8-story gallery designed by Foster is under construction on a narrow 25 x 100 feet plot of land on the Bowery
Scheduled to complete by the spring, it will feature a giant 12 x 20 feet elevator that will double as exhibition space.
October 23, 2009
Unused water pumping station renovated into a home and studio work space
October 22, 2009
Flickr has finally added Facebook-style face tagging
What they need to add now is the ability to search out and automatically tag all untagged photos with a given face, giving you the option of confining the search to your stream, your contacts' streams, or the Flickrverse at large. And they should automatically suggest faces as you upload photos. e.g. "Is this so-and-so?" Face.com already has a Facebook app in beta that does this (minus the recognize-at-upload part).
October 20, 2009
Serious Eats finds New York's best cheesecake
But WTF, a frozen pie from the Cheesecake Factory (the freaking Cheesecake Factory?!) and one from a supermarket are in the top five, but not Eileen's? Not sure if I can trust their broken taste buds.
Every issue of Life magazine from 1936 to 1972 is available on Google Books for free
October 19, 2009
3+1 Bedrooms, a boutique hotel with, you guessed it, 3 rooms and 1 suite, located in the heart of Old Beijing on a hutong.
By the way, is it "on" a hutong or "in" a hutong? NYTimes says "on" but "in" sounds better to my ears. I suppose either works, since hutongs are variously translated as streets or alleys. I think "alleys" when i think "hutongs" so that's why "in" sounds better to me. "In an alley"; "in a hutong".
October 15, 2009
For his first NYT restaurant review, Sam Sifton awards two stars to Daniel Boulud's DBGB
October 14, 2009
Facebook headquarters by Studio O+A
October 12, 2009
Full-length Toy Story 3 trailer
October 10, 2009
The Times reports on Aronia de Takazawa, a tiny Tokyo restaurant with two tables, no signs and incredible food
The WSJ also wrote about this place almost exactly a year ago. Tokyo really is an endlessly fascinating foodie town. (restaurant website)
I.M. Pei has been named as the recipient of the 2010 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
How to cook the perfect boiled egg
October 9, 2009
Serious Eats finds New York's best bagel
Bagel Hole in Brooklyn is declared the ultimate victor.
October 6, 2009
"Unboxing" of an official Apple offer letter to prospective employees
Also see: the welcome package to new employees once they accept the offer.
October 3, 2009
Flickroom, a great looking Flickr browser
October 2, 2009
The ThinkPad name was inspired by an actual notepad that IBM used to give away