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New York City unveils controversial revamp of "I ? NY" logo

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Design reporter Katie Deighton took aim at the logo's inconsistent spacing, tweeting that it would likely have Glaser "kerning in his grave", while Futurism's design director Tag Hartman-Simkins commented that the wordmark looked like it had been "feedbacked into the ground". We NYC is a 21st-century version of the 70s campaign.

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The Unexpected Satisfaction of Leaving Behind the American Dream

Dwell

Everything about it was inviting except for the price tags. Purchasing or renting a standalone in any highly rated public-school district was more than we wanted to pay, and a higher mortgage would mean more work, more stress, and less free time, putting us right back where we started.

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I love you Building - Happy Valentine's Day | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

On the inside there the interior column details and Renaissance style colonnades serving as the perimeter circulation. Despite the heaviness of its construction, it carries an air of fine detailing as can be seen in the exterior articulation of the fenestration, the corner columns and the wrap around frieze depicting the Civil War.

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Andres Duany at TAG 4.2

Architecture Here and There

Members of the TradArch list gather in Charleston for the first TAG. The architect and planner Andrés Duany, who was a founder of the Congress of the New Urbanism back in the 1990s, gave the final lecture at the fourth session of TAG 4.2, I imagine most attendees at TAG 4.2 photo by author). This is called discourse.

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