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NYC Assignment (Project 1A)
You will be organized into groups for this assignment:
TEXTURE/COLOR/SIGNAGE
Lee, Melissa L. , Tran, Michael, Kachbi, Souzan
SITE and NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY/CHANGE (1 OFFSITE)
Santucci, Nicole R (OFFSITE), Chang, Michael T, Luebker, Jeremy J
URBAN MORPHOLOGY/GEOMETRY
Cross, Alexander J, Yanez-Fetis, Claudia A., Williams, Angelic M.
ECOLOGY
Estrada, Leif Emilson T., Weiss, Ashley E, Darmanto, Catharina P
BUSINESS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
Yi, Song J, Do, Tri M, Nguyen, Sharon T
SOUND/NOISE/SILENCE
Good, Nathaniel R, Layugan, Richard G., Improgo, John M.
SAFETY/DANGER
Barry, David A., Mowji, Pranay B., Paul, Anthony V
LIGHT/SHADOW
Reyes, Reina Jera A., Cabamungan, Marcelino S., Marks, Justin
MOVEMENT/ACCESS/TRANSIT
Afifi, Amir M, Chartock, Samantha S, Puckett, Matthew H.
NETWORKS (Social and Cultural)
Lavasani, Hediyeh M., Wong, Sean T., Campos, Mark E.
INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES 3 OFFSITE
Morris, Sarah J., Bennett, Aurora J., Diniz, Annette F
VISUAL CHARACTER
Rennie, Susan M.,Hurst, Chanelle C, Moazzensafaei, Amirsalar
PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS 3 OFFSITE
De Leon, Gustavo, Boujaoude, Hiram W., Fung, Lilian C.
Studio Dinner: SEA @ High Line 8/26/09
We are finalizing reservations for a Studio Dinner Wednesday Night, at SEA, a Thai restaurant across the street from the High Line. Toted as the “affordable island in a sea of expense”. With many of their entrees around $10, and some slightly more, this is an excellent choice for dining out in Manhattan on a budget. Given the design caliber of the restaurant, the position adjacent to the High Line and the ability to experience the Meatpacking District at night, this seems to be a great opportunity. We will discuss further details when we meet as a studio on Wednesday morning.
If you plan to NOT attend, or if you want to see if we can squeeze in one more at your table, please contact jason via his cca email account.
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Tour
Please sign up in the comments to attend this office tour, capacity is 12 students.
As mentioned below, you can only sign up for one tour. Additional signups will be edited/deleted.
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners Tour
Please sign up in the comments to attend this office tour, capacity is 12 students.
As mentioned below, you can only sign up for one tour. Additional signups will be edited/deleted.
Tod Williams-Billie Tsien Architects Tour
Please sign up in the comments to attend this office tour, capacity is 12 students.
As mentioned below, you can only sign up for one tour. Additional signups will be edited/deleted.
Thursday Office Tours
Office visits for Tod Williams-Billie Tsien Architects, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, and Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners will be conducted simultaneously as three separate groups at the end of our walking day on Thursday. We ask that you distribute yourselves equally among the three firms, all of which are extremely engaging design firms here in New York City.
Separate sign up posts to follow.
Standard Hotel NYC Tours!
We are finalizing discussions with the Standard Hotel at the moment, and it looks like they will be able to give us tours (in separate groups) each morning. As a result it will be quite important that we are all on time each morning (9:30am at the Standard) in order to attend the tour. If you are late, your tour WILL leave without you!
Additional Tour Suggestions
It’s Sunday August 23rd. A few of you are arriving today, or have arrived already, and some of you have booked flights to stay in New York after the Field Trip. What are you going to do with yourselves in NYC? I’m sure you’ll have no shortage of things you run across, but here are a few suggestions:
1. Go see PS1 in Queens. http://www.ps1.org/ The Summer Warm Up is Saturdays, but the Museum is open regular hours 12noon-6pm Thursday through Monday
2. Go visit Dia:Beacon. http://www.diabeacon.org/ The Dia was a fantastic art space in Manhattan that opened up a wing north of New York City about the same time they had to move out of their NYC space. There is hope the Dia might return with a new gallery/museum on the High Line, but as of right now the Dia: Beacon stands alone. Thursday through Monday 11am-6pm. Take a train from Grand Central Terminal or Harlem-125th Street and get a discount package ($23/student), a fantastic day trip. http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr/html/getaways/outbound_diabeacon.htm
3. Take the L Train to BROOKLYN. One place to get off would be Bedford Avenue, the former hotbed of hipster activity, now overrun with overdeveloped high rise condos. Tons of fantastic restaurants abound in Williamsburg. Diner is down on Broadway. Bonita is south of the Williamsbug Bridge on Bedford, as is DuMont Burger. DuMont proper is at the Lorimer Stop (2nd L stop). Fanny, designed by Sekou Cooke, is on Graham (Graham 3rd L stop).
4. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s better to walk INTO Manhattan on the Bridge, take the Red Line 2/3 to Clark Street in Brooklyn, and walk to the Bridge. It will dump you at City Hall in Manhattan. On the Brooklyn side you might grab an ice cream at the base of the bridge/waterfront (the long line is worth it), or stop into Grimaldi’s for a pizza pie that Sinatra used to fly out in private airplane loads for his parties in Las Vegas.
5. Visit Columbia University. Take the Red 1 Train to 116th and Broadway (the 2/3 will get you to 96st faster where you transfer). Columbia’s campus is almost like a fortification against the city. It’s high wall rise from the city street and seal off the campus from the city around it, creating an idyllic academic paradise.
6. See a show ON BROADWAY, or better yet, save a little money and see one OFF BROADWAY!
7. Take the Ferry to Staten Island, then take the same Ferry right back. Not much to see in the suburban Staten Island, but the Ferry gives one of the best views of the Statue of Liberty as it passed back and forth from SI and Manhattan.
8. Find a free bench in on of the various urban parks in New York. Union Square, Gramercy Park, Madison Square Park, Tompkin Square Park might some of the highlights. These smaller urban parks maintain a strong connection to the urban context of their borders, but allow a slight reprieve from the density of the city.
9. Get a Burger/Shake at Shake Shack in Madison Square Park!
10. Get a Burger and a McSorely’s Dark at Corner Bistro in the East Village (if you are 21)
11. Get a plate of home cooking at Mama’s in the Lower East Side
12. Visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and see what life was like in the ultra-dense fabric of Manhattan, 108 Orchard. http://www.tenement.org/
Technology/Documentation
Email was sent out to all studio members:
We have a few things we have set up to help you document and share you travel experiences while in NYC. As some of this information is protected email addresses, I’m emailing this out rather than posting it to the WordPress site. The information that is not protected will be posted to WordPress later.
WordPress
You have all already received the link for the WordPress site, where you can leave comments
Twitter-
We have set up class user ‘ccaurbanstudio’. This twitter feed is can also be accessed by clicking the Twitter feed on the wordpress site.
Set up your own Twitter account to document what you are up to while in NYC and ‘follow’ ccaurbanstudio. We’ll follow you right back and
see what everyone seeing/finding/exploring. If you already have a personal twitter account, please set up a new one for the trip, so
that we have information specific to the field trip. If you pair Twitter with your phone you can update these tweets via text messages.
Flickr-
We have set up a Flickr account, also accessible from the worpress sidebar, located at:
If you have a mobile phone with internet and camera, you can instantly upload your photos by emailing them to: ****IN EMAIL ONLY***
Descriptions and Tags: You can use the subject line to give your photo or video a title and the body to add a description. You can also use a
special code to add tags before you send your email, but we have no idea what the special code is? perhaps #?
You an also email these later, from a laptop at the hotel, or other internet service.
Hopefully many of you will be able to use these new elements of technology to keep a digital log of what we are up to while we are exploring the city. This will offset the amount of work we need to do upon our return to SF in organizing and uploading all our images.
NYC Meeting Times – Meeting Point
We will be meeting at the same point on Wednesday-Thursday-Friday. There will be no meeting point for Saturday, as you are all free to do your own explorations and tours.
We will be meeting at 9:30 each day in front of the STANDARD HOTEL in the Meatpacking District. MAP The Standard is at 848 Washington at W13th Street. There are a series of yellow outdoor tables and chairs in front of the Standard. Your professors will meeting you at this spot each day. Please be ready to listen, participate or depart immediately at 9:30am. If you are still unfamiliar with the NYC Transit, err on the side of being early. This means having your coffee and pastry already in hand if you require them. Please make sure to have your cameras and sketch books on all days.
Wednesday will be your longest walking day. We will expect to cover up to 8 miles of walking. Comfortable shoes! For those attending the BTA office tour, please dress respectfully, keeping the heat in mind.
Thursday we will also be walking but we have a slightly shorter route. Everyone will be participating in an office tour this day, please dress respectfully, but keep the heat in mind.
Friday we will be walking again, a route comparable to Thursday’s.
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