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soho park was built new/not reused - it was built in a lot where they tore a building down a couple years ago.

This is the last posting I'll make on this and I'm done.

1. Henrietta has it right. We shouldn't design houses one way because of an uneducated eye. It doesn't matter if someone uneducated from a distance can tell if the house is old or new. it's completely irrelevant. We shouldn't design one way because there are uneducated people. Second, if you knew Millbrook, the house isn't even visible from the road.

I can respect what you're saying about Fred and Ginger, I understand why the site is there, and I understand a building needed to be placed. But as far as sympathetic (except for the height) i couldn't disagree more. It's a complete object building fighting to distract attention from the row and focus it on that corner. It's what gehry does best - build object buildings. One could argue that Bilbao was contextual, but the other seven or eight exploding pieces of steel were just dropped into an open lot.

And my last point. This isn't some suburban house. This is no 'McMansion.' This isn't a poorly designed house. This home required years of work, countless years of knowledge & research, and is built the right way but the right tradespeople (you should look up a little more information on Gil than the article gives). It involved a level of craft rarely seen at this time and it was done right. It's well proportioned, well thought out and every decision purposeful. It's not a careless attempt to add 1-800-columns (yes, it exists) to your home or add a frivoulos classic architectural mouldings and designs where they don't belong. I will agree with you, that's when a problem comes in - when pieces of classical architecture are used in the wrong way simply for decorative 'effect' with no knowledge of why they are placed - just to add faux character.

This, Mr. Schafer simply has not done.

@ ridge_van_winkle

that's a nendo cappellini ribbon stool.

yeah. way to redeem yourselves AT. :)

I'd need 2 though. one closed and one open.

You might want to note that this is NOT a replacement in the cinema line - it's a monitor for the MacBook line only. There is no dvi port on the monitor at all, only mini DisplayPort for the new 3 MacBooks.

Just a forewarning - it's not solid aluminum. The top is a thin piece of aluminum on mdf and it dents and scratches all over. It's actually pretty poorly built.

Garrett said what i was going to. It would be fine if the knob had a more flattering shape and a better finish.

it's revolting. especially when you see it from across the river and how it breaks the natural flow of the riverbank. I'm all for object buildings, just poor location.

i'll take a kidde silhouette any day.

i wish the guys at architectural devices got their design off the ground.

Citarella sells it in New York.