Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'Durst'
March 8, 2008
Large faces loom over Times Square every day, so why not yours? Join the ranks of over-sized famous faces with a 50-foot-high version of your own face hanging 48 stories above the tourists. The chashama gallery is currently running Raul Vincent Enriquez's "I in the Sky" project, which the artist says is about making eye contact (something most New Yorkers avoid). The Brooklyn artist recently told Wired, "We just need more eye contact; it's what......
Continue Reading "Get Your Eye in the Sky Above Times Square"November 25, 2007
While everyone knows that the proposals five development teams have offered up for the MTA's West Side rail yards are likely to change, the NY Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff made it clear that he hopes they do, with a withering review of the five plans. Noting the great opportunity that developers have, Ouroussoff says the designs "are not just a disappointment for their lack of imagination, they are also a grim referendum on......
Continue Reading "West Side Rail Yards Proposals Depress NY Times Critic"November 19, 2007
A storefront at the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and 43rd Street (across from Grand Central) may be a window into the future of the West Side Rail Yards. The MTA unveiled an exhibition of the five proposals to redevelop the rail yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan, and the public will get a chance to see the models every day (except Thanksgiving) through December 3. And what's more, the MTA wants the......
Continue Reading "West Side Yards Proposals On Display For Public"
