Feb 18
There’s a veritable menagerie in this week’s landscape reads: domesticated sheep, archeologist rabbits, robot cockroaches, and acidified limpets.
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Oct 30
Looks like those pesky shadows over Central Park are destined to lengthen even more: A new $1 billion financing package from a group of Asian banks is breathing life into a stalled plan to build the 1,050-foot-tall MoMA Expansion Tower on West 53rd street.
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Aug 28
In 1857, Central Park was carved out of the still-wild landscape of Manhattan. In 2013, a new park in the middle of super-dense New Delhi is poised to dwarf Central Park by almost 50 percent.
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Jul 15
When the Board of Commissioners of Central Park decided it was time to build Central Park in 1857, they announced a design contest with a prize to the tune of $2,000 (around $50,000 today). Obviously, it was Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s design won. But there were 33 other failed entries, only five of which still exist.
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Nov 28
Mother Nature, you are so beautiful. One of the best things about New York City (or any east coast city, really) is seeing the seasons change. The colors, the temperature, the feel. Jamie Scott created a timelapse of Central Park by choosing 15 locations in the park and then visiting those spots 2 days a week for six months. It’s spectacular. More »
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