"Everywhere I looked I saw a building by York & Sawyer".
Yale School of Architecture, Art and Architecture Building, 180 York Street, New Haven; (203) 432-2889 or architecture.yale.edu.edu
In New Haven, Rudolph buildings include the Yale Art and Architecture Building, 180 York Street; a parking garage at 11 Temple Street; the Mansfield Street Apartments; and Greeley Memorial Laboratory, 370 Prospect Street.
"Transcending Type" is at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, 2nd Floor, Art and Architecture Building, 180 York Street, New Haven, through Feb. 3. Information: www.architecture.yale.edu/gallery/ or (203) 43203203.
"Saving Corporate Modernism: Assessing Three Landmark Buildings Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill" continues through March 2 at the Yale A&A Building, 180 York Street, New Haven.
The course will have places for 12 participants who will meet for one three-hour session per week (6.30pm - 9.30pm) for a period of six months at the Guardian Building, 90 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 9GU.
'Urban Fabric: Building New York's Garment District' (closes on Thursday) Sponsored by the Skyscraper Museum, this free exhibition covers the architecture and history of the garment district through photographs, drawings, advertisements and film.
So well established was their preference for the Florentine that in 1929 Architecture Magazine quoted an American returning from a trip to Italy as remarking, "Well, Florence didn't astound me so much; everywhere I looked I saw a building by York & Sawyer".
The Empire State Building New York City's Empire State Building underwent a significant renovation in 2009 that included retrofitting the skyscraper to be more energy efficient.
We spent a lot of time there and I fell in love with their "Building New York's Subway" exhibit, which showcases what a monumental and inspiring undertaking it was and how much of the subway (like much of our infrastructure) was built by immigrants (it's a permanent exhibit, so you can still check it out if you're in NYC).
Two Manhattan buildings — 1 York Street in TriBeCa and 123 Baxter Street in Chinatown — have automated parking systems in which the resident pulls up and steps out of the vehicle, and then the system parks the car somewhere in the garage.
