New website of the day...Artkrush

Artkrush...one of my new favorite online art/architecture weekly publications, an image above from this weeks issue

Richard Serra @ the MoMa Manhattan

amazing work.... exhibit, i just can't see enough of this guys work, art yet architecture

P.S.1 MoMA + Long Island City

Saturday i took a trek out of my little west village area to the P.S.1 MoMa museum in Long Island City Queens. For several years i have been reading about the young architects program/competition on archinect that happens there every year and have been wanting to check it out since moving to ny. Saturday was the final day so i decided i better go check it out and it was well worth it, great temporary space called "Liquid Sky" by LA based firm Ball-Nogues.

The area around the museum was also quite interesting ; lots of old warehouse type building with graffiti. Crazy thing is no one seems to stop anyone from painting on everything, as it's quite obvious that the graffiti is improving the area in it's own way. i thought this truck painted on one of the building was pretty cool :)

here are a few of my random pix, was great weather too, so it made it even better.

Company Picnic Fun

well work has been particularly trying lately schedule wise :) but what else is new.

however, this past Wednesday we were treated with a half day and a great company picnic in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. the weather was perfect and there was plenty of good food, drinks and lots of soccer and a bit of badminton as well.

I'll only post a few pix as most are of people few of you probably know and i have censored the ones of myself taken by others as they were very unflattering shots of me flying thru the air trying to hit that little thing known as a shuttle when playing badminton, a sport that i now know due to wind etc. should definitely only be played inside :)

Latest Side Bar

see at right...people i think are interesting for some reason or another.
first entry: oliver sacks
reading one of his books at the moment An Anthropologist on Mars
http://www.oliversacks.com/

2C Shakeup! More new room mates :-)

Recently for various reasons including a marriage :) (see earlier post) I had to find two new room mates to fill my little apartment. And I am happy to report they are both wonderful! We had a bit of party with our neighbors downstairs on a Wednesday night! it was great. Lots of good food as one of my new room mates is a chef and so is one of the guys that lives downstairs.

Province..late night...late food

One of the highlights (if you can call it that ) of late nights of work in Manhattan is what to eat for dinner :) there are so many choices and everything is good and not necessarily even that expensive (though not a concern since it's on the office). This is one thing I really missed when I was living in London as most places closed there relatively early and were not big on delivery much less variety...at least in the area our office is in.

One of our latest discoveries is this great little Chinese place called Province that serves the most tasty small sandwiches. They consist of a few choices of fillings (Shiitake mushroom is my favorite) inside a doughy steamed bread of northern China known as Mantou.

if your ever in nyc heading south of Chinatown towards the Tribeca area this is a must eat and it will only set you back $5.

http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/Province/

a few pix from my weekend down in houston

this past weekend while in houston i got to do a lot of hanging out with friends and family. i had the chance to meet up with my friend, fernando, shown with me here and to go to a great art/street festival with my family in the old historic heights district of houston. ahh and not to be left out was all the fun i had with my sister's kiddos, however at the moment I don't have my pix of them downloaded just a few that fernando sent me from his camera, so more later on the kids :)

(yes and a bit of down time as well to play with my blog template, not sure about this red text and dark background but it's a new look i am trying :P)

"ego free-for-all"....architects talking about architects

a great article from a co-worker regarding recent trends in architecture

However, I personally resent, for example, two billion dollars being spent on a subway station in New York City that looks like a bird.
I have no idea why a subway station should either look like a bird or cost two billion dollars," he said
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0801/design_1-2.html

Room mate wedding #2

kokkugia_a friend's work

back from london town but no time to gab now! just wanted to post this awesome work from a co-worker at grimshaw...crazy stuff :) enjoy

http://www.kokkugia.com/

Grimshaw colleague/ photographer

a pic from a one of my new colleagues here at Grimshaw of one of our projects here in Camden, London.www.stay.rudee.pl

final days in london

well things are winding down here in London as i am leaving in less than two weeks :-( :-)


I have mixed feelings as I am both excited to return to old friends and family in New York but i have grown to really love London and met so many great people in my time here.


4 months is just enough time to start to finally feel a bit settled in a place whatever that means.

anyway i am thankful for the time and excited to return to NYC to a new project at work and two new room mates. and lots of catching up to do.

here are a few pix from my past wanderings this weekend.....a trip to canary wharf....an amazing exhibit at the Bartlett Architecture school, the British Library and lots of stuff along the way :)

TEXAS EMBASSY CANTINA of London!

This weekend I did a bit of sightseeing with my room mate Vanessa and a friend of hers who is staying with us from Spain. It was great I love to walk around the city with people who have never been to London as I myself still feel like a bit of a tourist. Anyway not far from Leicester square I ran into this restaurant called the Texas Embassy, heheheh it was the most out of place hilarious sight smack in the middle of London with Texas flag waving out front and all.

Anyway I could not help myself from playing it up and taking a shot out front. That's me always Texas proud ;P

My new place in London!