Twelve years and counting, Gordon added, is simply too long for any project to sit on the drawing board while regulators and on-the-ground stakeholders squabble over details. "Most projects and most developers that would get involved in a process like that would probably throw up their arms and walk away," he said.
Just be sure to avoid spraying too much paint on or the couch may feel like a crunchy papier mâché project to sit on!
And yet that description of his project seemed to sit better with Quijada than any other set of words that anyone else had used to describe it.
The single most important consideration a creator can make with their project is to sit down and think about who its for.
I don't tell her to wait or shoo her a way, but I welcome her to help me with small projects or to sit beside me and read out loud her favorite book.
So I convinced the two head designers from the project, John Briscella and Matt Kroner, to sit down with me in a Boerum Hill diner one sweaty afternoon, to find out more about their hipster nostalgia trip.
Offerings also include art projects, the chance to sit in on preschool programs and a concluding concert with the school's teenage rock bands.
Of course, as they say, size matters: there's a sensuous thrill to sitting in a theatre and watching a print projected large (and I like to sit in the front row, or not far from it); the scratches and the flecks of dust are part of the story, and I'm rather sorry that digital restorationism has gone to the extreme of removing them.
But a neighborhood group in Paris has put a stop to Mr. Arnault's major vanity project — a Frank Gehry-designed museum to sit on the northern edge of the Bois de Boulogne and house Mr. Arnault's lavish collection of contemporary art.
Gabie, who completed several works on the park including an homage to Seurat's Bathers at Asnières with construction workers and a project where he attempted to sit in every seat in the stadium, will appeal for suggestions through his blog.
