Looks like a piece of the barricades down south along I- 95 that are used to screen junk yards from peoples view
Looks like a piece of the barricades down south along I- 95 that are used to screen junk yards from peoples view
Why brown though? Whats with the brown and texture from Shop:
http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2010/07/774743.jpg
© 2010 tectonic
Going to be backlit?
I like this better....
Than this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tectonic
Which is not exatly well representative of the facade as depicted here...Quote:
Originally Posted by BStyles
Along Atlantic Avenue, the plaza is framed by the arena's swooping canopy and the transit center entrance.
http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/Bar...ter-Oculus.jpg
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Im worried. That mock up looks too sleek and not earthly textured, as the color selected indicates.
Uh, does that eagle remind anyone else of something quite different from the NBA?
Reichskommissar Ratner reporting, SIR! (click)
It's from the ABA (Aryan Basketball Association)Quote:
Originally Posted by ZippyTheChimp
A few years back Barclays considered dropping their logo ...
... A source close to the bank said in the Times: "It is rather a Teutonic-looking eagle and has unfortunate connotations." ...
The sign has evolved over years and was softened by brand consultants in a 1999 makeover ...
It's linked to an early London location of the bank and pre-dates all the nasty stuff that came after ...
The spread eagle emblem has featured prominently throughout the history of Barclays. In the late seventeenth century a goldsmith-banker called John Freame was living in the City of London. The exact date when he started his business is not known, but in 1690 he was a partner in a banking business which traded at premises in Lombard Street. In those days very few people could read or write and business houses used pictorial signs so that their customers could find them easily.
In 1728, Freame moved to the present site in Lombard Street at the sign of the Black Spread Eagle. The business expanded over the years and other properties in Lombard Street were acquired. The banking partnership chose 54 Lombard Street as their official address, but the sign of that house - the bible - was thought to be inappropriate as a sign for a Quaker business, so they adopted the Spread Eagle sign over the extended premises.
At the Sign of the Black Spread Eagle
It's not all that different from the eagle found on a commemorative 1984 Olympic coin ...
http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/images/...picsrev400.jpg
Spread Eagle Reverse Design on a 1984 American Gold Eagle
The spread eagle is a popular symbol, used by all sorts ...
http://static.musictoday.com/store/b...e/BGCTMM31.JPG
Ingram-Richardson Porcelain American Embassy Eagle:
http://www.hylandgranby.com/stkimgs/FA0784.jpg
http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item...9/164/MVJc.jpg
Seems the American versions tend to show the eagle's wings uplifted.
Good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by GordonGecko
Reminds me of a 1940 film, The Mortal Storm, where MGM dipped a tentative toe into message-movies. They didn't want to upset the large film audience in Germany, so countries weren't named, and people were called Aryans and Non-Aryans.
Germany banned all MGM films anyway.
Prefabricated Tower May Rise at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards
NY TIMES
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
March 16, 2011
In a bid to cut costs at his star-crossed Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, the developer Bruce C. Ratner is pursuing plans to erect the world’s tallest prefabricated steel structure, a 34-story tower that would fulfill his obligation to start building affordable housing at the site.
The prefabricated, or modular, method he would use, which is untested at that height, could cut construction costs in half by saving time and requiring substantially fewer and cheaper workers. And the large number of buildings planned for the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards — 16 in all, not including the Nets arena now under construction — could also make it economical for the company to run its own modular factory, where walls, ceilings, floors, plumbing and even bathrooms and kitchens could be installed in prefabricated steel-frame boxes.
The 34-story building, with roughly 400 apartments, would comprise more than 900 modules that would be hauled to Atlantic Yards, lifted into place by crane and bolted together at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street, next to the arena.
Mr. Ratner’s development company, Forest City Ratner, has been investigating modular construction for a year, but has kept its plans secret. MaryAnne Gilmartin, executive vice president of Forest City Ratner, confirmed Wednesday that the company was seriously considering the modular method, although, she added, no final decision had been made.
The company has also continued to design a conventional tower. Forest City hired Ove Arup & Partners, a prominent engineering firm, for the modular work, while SHoP Architects is working on designs for both types of buildings ...
“The company is interested in modular, high-rise construction in an urban setting,” Ms. Gilmartin said. “It’s driven by cost and efficiencies.”
But it would also infuriate the construction workers who were Mr. Ratner’s most ardent supporters during years of stormy community meetings, where they drowned out neighborhood opponents with chants of, “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”
“This is something that could be of great consequence to the building trades,” said Gary La Barbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, an umbrella group for the construction unions. “We have never been supportive of prefab buildings, for obvious reasons.” After several years of delays, Forest City is under considerable pressure because of the difficulty in obtaining financing for the building and the weak real estate market ...
In pursuit of cutting construction costs, Mr. Ratner and Ms. Gilmartin recently traveled to Europe to talk to builders involved with what is currently the world’s tallest modular building: a 25-story dormitory in Wolverhampton, England, that was built last year in less than 12 months.
Victoria Hall dormitory:
Attachment 12516
Mr. Ratner has also become captivated by a YouTube video depicting the assembly of the 15-story Ark Hotel in China in a matter of days.
Ark Hotel:
Attachment 12514
Attachment 12515
Modular buildings are not new to New York City. The School Construction Authority has used the technology to build classrooms. Capsys, a modular builder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has built steel-frame, prefabricated housing up to seven stories tall in Clinton Hill and East New York, Brooklyn, and on Long Island.
Whether taller modular buildings can be built to withstand intense wind shear and seismic forces, while retaining cost savings, is another question, because the higher a structure is built, the more bracing it would require ...
Tony Sclafani, a spokesman for the Department of Buildings, said city rules did not prohibit Forest City Ratner from using modular construction on the building. “There’s nothing standing in the way of a prefab building as long as they follow our regulations,” he said.
... it is the labor savings that are suddenly worrying some union officials, who were repeatedly asked by Forest City to mobilize their members for years of raucous community meetings.
The state and the city agreed to provide $300 million in direct subsidies for Atlantic Yards, in part, because Forest City insisted that the project would generate “upwards of 17,000 union construction jobs.”
Not to worry, Ms. Gilmartin said, “We’re a union shop, and we build union.”
But under current wage scales, union workers earn less in a factory than they do on-site. A carpenter earns $85 an hour in wages and benefits on-site, but only $35 an hour in a factory.
And while modular construction employs a large number of carpenters, iron workers, who earn as much as $93.88 an hour in pay and benefits, could lose a lot of jobs.
One construction professional, who was familiar with Forest City Ratner’s plans but requested anonymity because he did not want to anger the company, said, “The incentive is to move as much work as possible to the factory from the field.”
FULL ARTICLE
© 2011 The New York Times Company
There's nothing wrong with pre-fab construction, IMO the issue would be if he used sub-standard materials. If the design is nice and everything is well made with quality materials, I don't see the problem
If the design is nice, sustainable, cut costs, and will be up faster than we know it, who could be mad?
The construction trades, who under the AY / Ratner deal were assuming high priced jobs, but instead will be getting jobs paying half the wages (per the details from the article).
I guess some poor factory working will have to "get by" on $35 an hour building the modules instead of $85 on the field. I'm not crying for anyone here
At $35 / hour that comes out to about $70K / year, less taxes = ~ $40 - 50K / year net
$85 / hour = ~ $170K / year, less taxes = ~ $100 - 120K / year net