January 13, 2012 – 10:41 am
Albert Einstein was 26 when he published his “Special Theory of Relativity.” James D. Watson was 25 when he and Francis Crick discovered the architecture of DNA, arguably the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetime. Steve Jobs, another early bloomer, believed that you couldn’t trust people over 30 to come up with radical innovations. Working [...]
Since a photograph is purportedly worth a thousand words – and as the Graphic Designer here, I’m much better with pictures: So I’ll keep this short. Architects tend to be proud of what they design, and they commission photographers who specialize in capturing the built environment to document their work for various purposes. What we [...]
March 17, 2011 – 11:09 am
Casually rooting for a team, or teams, in collegiate post-season play is easy. Filling out a bracket in a fiscally responsible manner (if you get my drift) when you have six “favorites” in the field is a horse of another hue. At this writing, there are 64 basketball teams in the running for the NCAA [...]
December 28, 2010 – 9:54 am
It was standing room only as Nobel Laureate Dr. James Watson and award winning architect William Grover, FAIA, explored their 36-year collaboration developing and improving the renowned research campus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. The pair’s presentation, part of the Essex Library’s Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series, drew some 200 people to the [...]
December 15, 2010 – 4:41 pm
In the clip above, Master Model Maker Patrick McCauley explains his process for planking the deck of Aphrodite. Long and sleek, well accessorized, and built for speed, she is the center of attention wherever she goes. Her torpedo stern allows her to maintain a horizontal posture in the water even at speeds of 40 knots. [...]
November 10, 2010 – 1:25 pm
New London’s Garde Art Center, which screens films and hosts a Broadway Series of shows such as “The Wizard of Oz,” served as a screen itself as visual effects company Killer Minnow projected an animated promotion for the play “Spamalot” against the building’s southern façade. It was jolly good – click and see for yourself. [...]
October 28, 2010 – 9:24 am
Bill Grover and Jim Watson (Nobel Laureate Dr. James D. Watson to the world at large) are not exactly the odd couple, but they clearly are distinct from one another. One is an architect, the other a scientist. One is patient; one less so. Bill is calm and speaks softly; Jim can be a bit [...]
Yale University has produced an engaging and informative video about Kroon Hall, examining how the new home for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was planned, designed and built to LEED Platinum standards (and beyond). Opened last year, Kroon Hall has drawn rave reviews from the general and architectural media – and, more [...]
I grew up on Long Island in the 1960s, and I went by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory twice a day, to and from school, for four years. I knew big things were going on in there, just off the main road through the trees, scientific things, way-over-my pay-grade kind of stuff. Science and I never [...]
