User talk:Dogears/Archive 2

Photo New York
Are they uploaded yet? I've got an Architectural Review review knocking around somewhere concerning the Longchamp store - perhaps there's an article in there with your NY arch lit and press info?--Mcginnly | Natter 00:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Refer To: User:Dogears/*Image gallery
 * --dogears (contribs) 00:32, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * You're fast on the messages! I have to process the images at work tomorrow. It was such a nice day today, I had to play hooky and stroll around SoHo and jostle with the tourists. It was a blast! I even walked into the showroom for Ian Shragers' 40 Bond Street project and acted like a person rich enough to afford 3 million dollars for a 1 bedroom apartment. Each exterior glass panel is hand blown, the interiors are over the top.


 * Your photo's of the doors-open venues are outstanding. Did you use a panorama camera for the wide format shots? Our 4th annual Open House New York weekend will be on October 7th and 8th this year. So I'll have more images to upload.


 * Thanks for the tip about the London Eye reservations. My architect girlfriend and I plan to visit the V&A, Tate and British Museums and attend low tea at the Savoy Hotel. On the second day… ;-) there's so much to see! We've booked a room in the Saint Gregory Hotel at 100 Shoreditch High Street. Is this a good spot in Town?  Thanks again for considering must-see locations. —Dogears 00:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

London
London: right then! The tate is pretty impressive, but the budget/floor space has necessitated a pretty rough and ready finish in some places, full satisfaction is rather dependant on the turbine hall exhibit and how into modern art you are. (Although the Rothko Room, Barbera Hepworth and a lot of Brit Art seem to be permanent fixtures (The odd Naom Gabo to boot).

Get the river ferry from there to the Tate Britain - you'll get a riverside view of the Eye, Parliament and St. Pauls. Remember to watch out for Portcullis House (Hopkins) just next to the houses of Parliament on the tate Britain side of the bridge. The landing stage is a deconstructivist extravaganza - can't remember the architect but it's small, beautifully formed and looks like some kind of twisted stealth submarine.

Go to the Great Court in the British Museum - In fact go separately and meet their - it's one of those; quietly soak it all in spaces - then check out the rossetta stone, and tutankhamun - if he's still there.

If you're into a bit of historical perspective I'd recommend 1. The tower of London (you're american tourists after all) 2. Alfred Waterhouses Natural History Museum - Neo gothic masterpiece. 3. Westminster abbey. 4. The Globe theatre - accurate recreation of shakespeares theatre - but terrible tourist trap.

Transport - At some point get a zone 1&2 travel pass and get to waterloo station - It's pretty crap apart from the Eurostar terminal (Victoria is the great victorian barrel vaulted station IMHO) - but then get the jubilee line tube to Canary wharf - get off at each station and walk around a bit - they're all designed by good architects - alot of them are trying to capture the aspirations of high powered businessmen transfering from Eurostar to the city, so It's a bit like being inside a stereo - black or silver engineering with a cool, hard sense of purpose - canary wharf is outstanding.

Greenwich - a real revelation during my recent stay - much less 'mad' than the rest of london - get a hotel there if you can - after arriving late on friday, girlfriend and I walked straight into the theatre gay bar - friendly but heterocold - went across the road and into a tiny 3 room cellar with jazz night, scatt & blues AM/Pro singing and plenty of 30-40 year olds with dogs and a jazz ear - my kind of urban experience. Lots of history there - british sea power, longitude, observatory etc.

Hide Park - the serpentine gallery - hide park is immense and central (But probably smaller than central park - I don't know) there's a cute little art gallery near the serpentine waterway that erects and architectural pavilion each year.

If you're adventurous I'd heartily recommend a trip out to Peckham Libray - remember, Peckhams a bit rough around the edges so don't expect glitz here - it's a bit on the rough and ready side - but the library is making me smile even now just thinking about it - can't really explain - colour, playfullness, social responsibility, creation of public space - it's a deserving stirling prize winner I think.

What else - cricket at Lords (Hopkins) stadium and (Future Systems) media centre - plus you can finally understand why someone might spend 5 days drinking Gin under an English sun, talking to their friends and occasionally acknowledging the score's gone up/wickets have been taken (ie. this is the way to enjoy cricket - it's not seat of the pant entertainment - it's background, but very occasionally, absolutely compelling).

I'm flagging a bit now - I think i've covered most of the must-see's but there's plenty there for specialist interest if you let me know what that might be.--Mcginnly | Natter 01:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm stunned, so kind of you to reply thus. I'll put on an old record album to celebrate all things British, in a way, and repond. After years of dull projects, both of us are working on interesting jobs/specialities. My girlfriend just finished up the punchlist on the Barons' Hearst Tower and is now peering down into the "bathtub" at the WTC to help coordinate the infrastructure of the three towers, so she's into towers. I'm working on one of the remaining townhouses on Central Park West restoring it to the American Victorian style of 1888, naturally predicated on the British Vistorian. So I can look into house tours to see some original interiors. Can't thank you enough. What sort of jobs do you work on? — 01:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

The one time I went to London, I really liked the Soane Museum. My only other advice is to try not to think of An American Werewolf in London when in the Tube at night. If I were in you two's shoes, I would try to get together in London, with your girlfriends, maybe to watch that cricket game. Wouldn't that be fun? DVD+ R/W 23:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I've heard only good reports of the Soane Museum. Dogears - I've emailed you about DVD's suggestion and sending you the open weekend brochure (I'm quite happy to cc. you in on it too if your interested DVD - drop me a line).

Further thoughts - the restaurant/bar at the top of 30 st. mary's axe looks amazing but I'm not sure what the access requirements are (and it'll be expensive beyond belief i'd imagine). The Barbican is a surprisingly impressive piece of 70's brutalist concrete utopianism which I really enjoyed last weekend. Towers and historical eh? - Lloyd's building won't be open but is pretty good from the outside, Actually I'd like to see the Lloyd's shipping exchange (also be rogers but a bit later on) - the welcome trust building has an amazing Thomas Heatherwick sculpture in it the shape of which was selected by dropping molten lead into swirling water and then scaling it up to the height of an atrium in glass balls suspended from wires. Houses of parliament - I think I can request a tour as a uk subject - I'll see how many guests you're allowed. Anyway I'll leave it there.--Mcginnly | Natter 23:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Have you returned from Venice? How was it? DVD+ R/W 21:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * And a welcome back from me too. Never been to venice so I'm very jealous. BTW I'm off to Barcelona on the 28th September if you guys would like any photographs. In your absence I've chimed in on this AfD Articles for deletion/17 State Street you might have some comments.--Mcginnly | Natter 21:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * To Mcginnly: I'd like to see a picture of City of Culture of Galicia, though it is unfinished and not in Barcelona but in Santiago de Compostela. DVD+ R/W 22:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC) Too far?  DVD+ R/W 22:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry David, Although I'm thinking of hiring a Moped and going to see Igualada Cemetery (Imagine selling that one to the girlfriend) It's the other side of the country and I've only got 3 days there. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I knew it was going to be too far. I'd like to see your pics of Igualada Cemetery though. You should post them on the article. But you've already thought of that I'm sure. DVD+ R/W 00:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, Mcginnly, be carefull on that moped, those things are dangerous. And Dogears, again, welcome back :D. DVD+ R/W 01:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Returned a few days ago with about 460 photographs, thank you for the warm welcome! We enjoyed the film festival and the architecture Biennale - with cities as the theme this year. Rented a car to see some Palladian villas and palaces in and around Vicenza. If you guys ever want to go, I may be able to help you get an apartment of a friend of a friend in Venice to reduce your costs.

Talk about jealous, you guys can pop off to Prague or Barcelona in as much time as it takes for me to travel to Philadelphia or Chicago, with no jet lag. You are brave to rent the moped - and drive on the "wrong" side of the road too! Cemetaries are a great vacation spot, despite what the girlfriend might say. I went back to Père Lachaise Cemetery twice on one vacation, and not just to idolize Jim Morrison. Will set out to do Photo New York ASAP. P.S. My girlfriend has already booked a flight to Londontown during our Thanksgiving holiday, so any must-see locations and picture taking requests would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks again and cheers. Dogears 18:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, just got back from the London open building weekend - snaps being added to User:Mcginnly/Sandbox/London Images. I'll have a think about must see buildings - is she an architect or a tourist? Definite must is pre-booking the London Eye for sunset. --Mcginnly | Natter 19:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Beaux Arts Gallery
Hi! I was on RCP and noticed this page changed from a redirect to École des Beaux-Arts. I couldn't verify if the info entered makes any sense. I noticed that you have made a lot of contributions to the Ecole page and hence hoped you could make out if it was vandalism. Shushruth \talk page \ contribs 10:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Labyrinth or Maze
Which one? DVD+ R/W 04:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * So hard to choose, as both are appropriate for the Portal. How about both! Dogears 18:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Fleur-de-lis
Hi - I noticed that not long ago you made some improvements to the fleur-de-lis article, and wanted to let you know that I'm planning some fairly "bold" editing there. After seeing the anon aggro on the talk page, and knowing there aren't many active editors, I've decided not to mention any changes on that page in advance - but, of course, I'd be more than happy to discuss them with you or anyone else taking a serious interest. At the moment my main concern is to restore accurate quotes and refs, add more sources, and cut out a few things which are almost certainly the anon's OR. --HJMG 22:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your nice message with helpful suggestions. I agree the Lippi image isn't clear enough but was trying to find something arty for that bit! And, yes, let's move the botanical/architectural pic right up the page and perhaps rethink the whole intro at some later stage. 37 reps of "the fleur-de-lis"! - perhaps from a series of one-sentence edits? I'm interested in your comments on images fighting for attention - I'm easily tempted to use lots of pics to illustrate a visual topic so it's useful to have you urging restraint - do just intervene boldly yourself. Perhaps keeping the heraldry images small helps with the overall look?  I plan to continue working on the article but time is short - most of my latest edits were planned before I read your note.--HJMG 08:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Nice pic
I like the pic you've added to Green man very much. But I'm intrigued: how does it work as a door bell? It looks like a pipe coming out of his mouth. SiGarb | Talk 18:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * And thanks for your swift reply! SiGarb | Talk 21:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)