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Design Roundup, Resin and Hemp vs. Plastic Edition
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Jill Priluck
Published Nov 20, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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+ Community Board 1 Seaport Committee members react to landscape architect James Corner's South Street plaza plans. Some say it's beautiful. Others say it's too beautiful.
+ The golden domes that once adorned the 1875 cast-iron, Corinthian-columned O'Neill building on Sixth Ave. between 20th and 21st are returning. In the form of fiberglass-reinforced plastic.
+ 980 Madison Ave. developer Aby Rosen buys Fred Tomaselli's 1992 Colorado River (pictured). It's made of resin, hemp leaves and pills. Tomaselli, in case you don't know, is a self-described "stoner without ideology" whose work hints at "counterculture danger."
+ Thom Mayne's Hewitt Building is still riling Cooper art students.
+ And, this story on self-designed work spaces reminds us of the pink-and-white-polka-dot "cubicle" paper our friend trotted out one day to some serious mocking.
Restrictions on work spaces: A savior for office mates of polka-dot enthusiasts or an intolerable, vaguely totalitarian gesture?
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