The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Reading about an overdesigned interior in the Upper East Side ("...built by bending plywood over wooden ribs and lacquering the surface, the finished wrapper creates a calm, cool atmosphere") is only shocking when it's an interior of a dentist's office. Actually, though, it's a teeth-whitening clinic. [See above] [Metropolis]
The 9/11 memorial is finished! But not the big one. (This Anglophile memorial is the "British Memorial Garden at Hanover Square.") [N.Y.]
New York City is getting greener by the month (although the city will probably be submerged in the Atlantic before one-half of new condos are environmentally sound.) This March, the USGBC is throwing the first annual Emerging Green Builders NY Career Fair. (Here's our slogan: "Be a LEED leader.") [Interior Design]
New York has the highest concentration of Travel + Leisure's 2007 Design Award winners (and runners-up) of any metropolis. O Glorious Day! And yet the Gramercy Park Hotel only gets "honorable mention" for best large hotel. [T+L]
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Max Abelson
