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In 2007, Barney's New York celebrated a "Green Christmas" with their eco-friendly holiday window displays. Creative Director Simon Doonan introduced Rudolph the Recycling Reindeer, and scenes from the Twelve Green Days of Christmas in the shop fronts, while sales of designer items by Fendi, Marc Jacob's and Edun will give a donation to environmental charities.
Barneys New York was founded in 1923 when Barney Pressman opened his first store in Manhattan with money he raised by pawning his wife's engagement ring. In 1970, the original four-level store on 7th Avenue and 17th Street was expanded an additional floor and a new five-story adjacent building before relocating to its current location on Madison Avenue and 60th Street in 1993.
On the twelfth day of Christmas my pro-Green true love gave to me …
12 tons of tofu,
11 solar panels,
10 New Age gurus,
9 organic carob bars,
8 tickets to Burning Man,
7 sustainable ostrich farms,
6 compost toilets,
5 rolls of recycled gift wrap,
fair-trade futons,
3 free-range sustainable-farmed organic hens,
2 vegan chefs,
and a Prius in a pear tree.
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This 80-foot long aluminum helix is by artist Alice Aycock (b.1946). Dedicated on November 6, 1995, the sculpture is attached to the skeletal steel roof supports of a former waterfront garbage transfer station.
Aycock was selected to create this sculpture as part of a project to transform a defunct sanitation facility into a public plaza. The resulting piece, its shape reminiscent of a roller coaster, is her response to the clamorous visual environment of the Queensborough Bridge, F.D.R. Drive, heliport, and commercial river activity which envelope the plaza. A consortium of organizations helped to plan and finance the project, including New York Hospital, the Hospital for Special Surgery, Rockefeller University, the East River Waterfront Conservancy, the Parks Council and the Municipal Art Society. Quennell Rothschild Associates, a landscape architecture firm, and Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum P.C. Architects created a waterside viewing pavilion and passive recreational space, by adapting portions of the existing structure.
Aycock?s spiral sculptural conception, with its undulating fan-like canopy attachment, was also inspired by the weightlessness of Fred Astaire?s dancing. Her bold design was engineered by Thorton-Tomasetti Engineers and fabricated by Dover Tank & Plate Company. The site itself is owned by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and operated and maintained by Parks; a sculpture maintenance endowment is managed by the Municipal Art Society?s Adopt-A-Monument Program.
Aycock?s design for East River Roundabout is intended to stand out in a highly competitive visual environment, and engage motorists and pedestrians alike. When the sculpture was installed, Aycock described the project as an ?opportunity to galvanize this extremely dynamic situation, calling attention in a dramatic way to the visual forms of movement inherent in this very active place. The Roundabout is a theater around which New York City enacts itself. And the viewer becomes a spectator in the play of the city as well as an actor in the spectacle.?
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In 2007, Barney's New York celebrated a "Green Christmas" with their eco-friendly holiday window displays. Creative Director Simon Doonan introduced Rudolph the Recycling Reindeer, and scenes from the Twelve Green Days of Christmas in the shop fronts, while sales of designer items by Fendi, Marc Jacob's and Edun will give a donation to environmental charities.
Barneys New York was founded in 1923 when Barney Pressman opened his first store in Manhattan with money he raised by pawning his wife's engagement ring. In 1970, the original four-level store on 7th Avenue and 17th Street was expanded an additional floor and a new five-story adjacent building before relocating to its current location on Madison Avenue and 60th Street in 1993.
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Citicorp Building is a 658-foot (201m), 50-story office tower in Long Island City. Completed in 1990 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP for the bank Citigroup, the tower is the tallest building on Long Island and tallest in New York City outside Manhattan. The only building in the US outside a central business district which is taller is the Williams Tower in Houston. Also known as One Court Square, the tower is glass-wrapped and green tinted and can accomodate 3500 employees.
The Queensboro Bridge, commonly called the "59th Street Bridge", was the world's greatest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction in 1909. For more info on the bridge, see this picture
The Queensboro Bridge was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1974.
Queensboro Bridge National Register #78001879 (1978)
Queensboro Bridge National Register #78001879
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