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Out and About: Photographer Jan Staller Lecturing at ISE
The talented New York photographer Jan Staller (and friend of the Design Trust's Photo Urbanism program) is giving an artist lecture next week at the ISE Cultural Foundation. The talk is part of his...
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Fellow Spotlight: Rob Stephenson Awarded CCNY Darkroom Residency
Senior Citizens Block Association of Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn, 2011, Courtesy of Rob StephensonCurrent Photo Urbanism fellow Rob Stephenson was selected as one of four photographers to participate in...
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Opportunity: NYC Dept. of Transportation Looking for Artists
Magda Sayeg of Knitta Please created this piece for the pARTners program in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that uses knitted tubes to spell out "Plan Ahead." The "Intersections" mural underneath the...
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Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Redux
Up until September 17, 2011, Zuccotti Park was a sleepy downtown spot, catering to World Trade Center tourists, Century 21 shoppers, and Lower Manhattan office workers. The Occupy Wall Street movement...
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Fellow Spotlight: Andrew Bernheimer to Lead The New School M. Arch
Making Midtown fellow Andrew Bernheimer has been named director of the Master of Architecture program at Parsons the New School for Design, succeeding David Leven of Leven Betts Studio.“Andrew is an...
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Bjarke Loves Public Space
Times Square's red-light district days may be long gone, but Danish architect Bjarke Ingels shows some LED-infused love with a new sculpture at 46th Street and Broadway. Did someone say heartthrob?...
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Opportunity: Call for Public Art in the Garment District
The Fashion Center Business Improvement District is seeking artists for a public art installation on the outdoor plazas on Broadway in the Fashion District for this coming Summer, 2012: "As part of...
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To Nanette Lepore, Garment District Indispensable
The headline of this THIRTEEN op-ed says it all: Without the Garment Center, There Would Be No Nanette Lepore. Nanette Lepore runs her namesake fashion line out of 225 West 35th Street, a handsome...
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Opportunity: Public Policy Lab Issues First Call for Fellows
Former Design Trust deputy director Chelsea Mauldin - now the executive director of the new nonprofit organization Public Policy Lab - just issued her first Call for Fellows and we are happy to help...
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New York media taps the expertise of Design Trust fellows: Five Borough Farm fellow Nevin Cohen talks to the NY Daily News about urban agriculture expanding on industrial rooftops in Brooklyn and...
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Garment District, February 28, 2012, 12:58 PM
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times, via City RoomThis is why we're Making Midtown.
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Council Breakfast Recap: Building the Whitney Downtown
Image courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper, Robertson & PartnersConstruction is underway on the Whitney's downtown site, a 200,000 square-foot, Renzo...
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Out and About: Vertical Urban Factory Exhibition at NYU
The East Asia edition of former Design Trust Fellow Nina Rappaport's well-received (and very timely) Vertical Urban Factory exhibition opens Tuesday, March 6th at NYU. The show runs until May 18th, so...
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Fellow Spotlight: Andrew Bernheimer earns AIANY Design Award
It's not everyday that a New York architect draws design inspiration from Slavic folklore. Rarer still is that a dwelling created for Baba Yaga, a witch-like figure who flies around in a giant mortar...
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Presenting: Small, Local, Infinitely Variable
Against the backdrop of rising real estate pressure and fragmented public policy, how can cities capture - and leverage - the value of local production? Program director Jerome Chou tackles this topic...
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Alexandra Lange Teaches Us How To Read a Building
"Design is not the icing on the cake but what makes architecture out of buildings and the places we want to live and eat and shop rather than avoid," critic Alexandra Lange declares on the opening...
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Walking the BQE
Take a few minutes to scroll through Walking the BQE, a project by David Kennedy Cutler and Robert Hult. Cutler and Hult write: "Over the past 10+ years living in and navigating...
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The Subtle City
First, I need to make two caveats before proceeding: 1. I am not a professional photographer, nor an aspiring one2. I am not about to tell you anything new or originalBut.I am a city-lover, an avid...
View ArticleCall for Video Fellow
Deadline: March 23, 2012 by 5:00 p.m. ESTWe're looking for a Video Fellow to produce between three to six high-quality, web-based videos (each three minutes or less) that will serve as advocacy and...
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