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• That's Rather Hideous: Needs Less Training

  Published: September 17, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay

  As Apartment Therapy or any design website will tell you, subway tiles are a hot decor trend right now. This, however, may be taking it a bit far. · Listing: East 53rd Street [Halstead]

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• Trump Soho Press Conference Report: The Renderings!

  Published: September 19, 2007, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Hotels, Manhattan Soho, Real Estate Development, Top

  As a jokey way of drumming up interest in the launch of Trump Soho, Donald Trump announced to reporters as he was leaving the press conference, "Come to the party tonight. OJ is bringing Britney!" But little did The Donald know, all we need to get pumped about something is a fresh crop of renderings, and the media kit given out at the press

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• Floorplan Antiporn Update: Video Walk-through Antiporn!

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Design Shelter, Real Estate For Rent

  The calling out of the "minimalist" floorplan of that Duffield Street studio apartment in Brooklyn last week was a good gag, but this has taken a turn for the weird. The listing has been updated with a more complete floorplan, showing that you have to pass through a basement storage area to get to the front door. And if that's not enough, there

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• Brownstone East Village Debuts Dark Look for Fall

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan East Village, Real Estate Miscellany

  We love it when little design flourishes that aren't apparent in the original renderings turn up in finished product, and the Brownstone East Village—the 14th Street mini-development that did peek-a-boo exposures way before Shigeru Ban brought the idea to West Chelsea—has surprised us with this street-level metal wall of ... something.

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• Renzo Piano Will Light Up Our Lives

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Design Shelter, Manhattan Hell S Kitchen Clinton, Museums Cultural

  Now that the staff of The New York Times has settled in at their flashy new headquarters overlooking Times Square, the architectural tricksters at Renzo Piano Building Workshop are about to show us some real magic. Guided by the lighting wizards at the Office for Visual Interaction, crews are busy installing lighting instruments that will make

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• On the Market: 'The Unloftiest Loft Ever'

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Real Estate For Sale

  for his clasic standards. Design touches include four different types of marble floors, three different metals used in various ceilings, and, um, silk walls. Says the Manhattan Loft Guy: "I have never seen anything like #7E at 28 West 38 Street before." · Listing: 28 West 38th Street [Halstead] · the unloftiest loft

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• All's Cool, The Onyx is Back on Track

  Published: October 4, 2007, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan West Chelsea Far West Side, Real Estate Development

  We wanted to follow up on the unbelievable reports of strong sales at The Onyx on West 28th at Eighth Avenue, so we ambled over to see if things are actually moving again at that long-stalled construction site. We spied cartons of Sub- Zeros on the upper floors of this cubic condo development, all awaiting installation. Unless those boxes are

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• That's Rather Hideous: Safari Chic on the UWS?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle

  decisions in interior design as revealed in listing photos. Nominees, please, to tips@curbed.com. While the dining room table and chairs remind us of a Marriott conference room somewhere in the Greater Tulsa metropolitan area, we were hardpressed to find another picture from this listing to match the glory that is the living room. Says

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• Floorplan Porn: Stanhope's Full-Floor is Big, Wet

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:29 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Upper East Side, Real Estate For Sale

  Simply put, you must click to expand They've changed the name to 995 Fifth Avenue to wash away the bitter taste of failure, but the Stanhope Hotel name used to represent Fifth Avenue opulence, so we'll refer to it as such while gazing at the glorious floorplan for this 8,360-square-foot, six-bedroom, full-floor apartment. Hobbit holes be damned,

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• Barge Pool Trails Shoe, Beating iPhone in Design Competition

  Published: October 8, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights, Design Shelter

  the Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award. The pool is second to the Toms, but ahead of the iPhone, a Ronnybrook milk jug glass and, even, the Brooklyn Bridge. Top-name entries like the the Seagram Building and Teardrop Park in Battery Park City aren't even close to the top of the list. The online voting closes on October 16, so remember, vote

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• It Happened One Weekend: Hipsters in Staten Island, Dormandie Dad, More

  Published: October 8, 2007, 8:53 am

  Tags: City Life, Design Shelter, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Upper East Side, Manhattan West Village, Staten Island

  1) Hipsters in Staten Island. HIPSTERS in Staten Island. HIPSTERS IN STATEN ISLAND! ['Bohemia by the Bay'/The City] 2) A man who moved into Normandie Court (aka Dormandie; right) with his wife and kid reflects on what he found in the Upper East Side frat house/hellmouth: "It was a nightmare come true: Dormandie Court lived." [New York

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• Steven Holl Gives NYU Philosophers Something to Smile About

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Design Shelter, Manhattan Greenwich Village

  [All photos copyright Andy Ryan] All eyes may be on Steven Holl's Towering S planned for the 30th Street Spur of the High Line, but the architect has recently—and somewhat quietly—completed another New York City project: the renovation of 3-5 Washington Place, home to NYU's Department of Philosophy. The landmarked exterior of the 1890

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• Lenny Kravitz's Soho Penthouse Revealed: Disappointing?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Soho, Real Estate For Sale, Top

  It's time for the latest chapter in the epic that is Lenny Kravitz's 30 Crosby Street penthouse. When last we left the five-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot duplex, the Times reported that it was back on the market for $19.5 million, and pictures of the recently-renovated, long-lingering pad would be making their way to the Corcoran website shortly. The

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• Red Hook Gentrification Watch: Pratt Grads Crashing on Futon

  Published: October 18, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Architecture, Brooklyn Red Hook, Design Shelter

  New York unleashes its Home Design issue, and there's plenty of fun stories to get floorplan junkies excited—like, for example, three architects taking on the same 300-square-foot room. What caught our eye was this funky 450-square-foot Red Hook one-bedroom, which two Pratt architecture graduates have turned into a live/work space. They had

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• Plaza Suites Revealed: Please Let Us Crap Here

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:57 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Hotels, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate Development

  [Photos by Hillary Launey] A first glimpse inside the renovated Plaza Hotel & Residences suites? Uh, yeah, we'll bite. Point Click Home got inside the ol' landmark, and now we have a better idea of what all those CEOs and foreign billionaires are buying into. Make sure you click through the little story so you can check out the slideshow (with

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