SFS Architecture wins in three categories for their work at the Osage Prairie YMCA Natatorium addition and the Bluford Branch Library renovation at the 2010 IIDA Design Awards! Again, I’m very happy to note their photographer didn’t screw it up for them…
In the very same afternoon, I met both Richard Meier and the Squirrel Whisperer of Washington Square Park!
I was lucky enough to join a tour led by Meier himself of the warehouse space in Brooklyn where Richard Meier and Partners Architects maintains a museum of the models they’ve built over the years. The space has recently undergone improvements and is being rededicated. A small group of journalists (and myself, courtesy of John Hill) was invited for a preview in advance of the public opening.
I met the Squirrel Whisperer while she was tending her flocks from a bench in the park. After chatting a while, she pulled this baby out of her purse to show me. She found it abandoned and is nursing it back to health. It will be awhile before it’s ready to return to the “wild”, though; it’s still terrified of the adult squirrels. Like so many of us.
These first two photos are of a sculpture installation I saw in a NYC subway station by Tom Otterness, according to the plaque on the wall. There are several other little figures hiding under the stairs and clinging to handrails. It’s a bit difficult to make out what’s going on in these snapshots, but the first is of a couple of maintenance workers cleaning up spilled money, the second is a guy with a money-bag head being dragged into the sewer. The rest are in Battery Park. These things are incredible and are all the reason you need to go to NY.
