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The Way We Were & The Way We Are Now
While the Art Condos building was still rising from its own excavation, we placed a camera in the hand of crane operator Manuel Fernandez, and persuaded him to lean out into space and take some photos of the building from…
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Consider Art Condos Officially Topped Off!
Yesterday the Art Condos team officially celebrated the building’s topping off. In accordance with tradition, the architects, developer, site super and the whole construction team were present to congratulate each other on a job well done. While there’s obviously a tremendous amount…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo dropped by the Art Condos site again last week. He seemed quite excited.
We asked him why. “Balconies!” he said, sounding as pleased as a kid at Christmas.
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Photos by Arthur Condo
“I wish they’d leave the orange stuff there,” thought Arthur, as he made yet another photograph of the rising Art Condos building. “Makes the place look gift-wrapped!”
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Construction Pics From on Site
Consider the seventh floor poured!
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo seems to be getting a bit impatient about moving into his new Art Condos digs. Today he wandered by the site to tell us that when the time came to move in, he wanted the condo with the red…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo reminds us constantly that he is a quiet, meditative sort of guy, who likes things calm and peaceful. We explain to him, sometimes, that it’s not really that kind of world anymore. “Well,” he told us the other…
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Eating Hearty at Piola
The truth behind the age-old question of why good Italian cooking is so deeply, endlessly satisfying is an elusive one. One hungry afternoon, a few days ago, we dropped in to Piola, a new Italian Restaurant (it opened last December…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
“What’s this then?” we asked Arthur Condo when he came by yesterday to show us his latest photos of the Art Condos site. “Coils of communication,” he told us. “Transmission! Connectivity!”
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Photos by Arthur Condo
We found Arthur Condo at the Art Condos site last week, staring raptly, in apparent admiration, at the rising building. “I love watching it go up,” he told us. “It feels so powerful.”
