A handful of new projects -- the tip of a residential building boom that has transformed the downtown area in recent years -- have reaffirmed the city's commitment to a style of architecture it basically invented in the late 19th century and refined for much of the 20th century into the "less is more" buildings that dominate through their powerful forms and ingenious construction.
In the ensuing investigation, the police, acting on a tip from the landlord of a building near the school, discovered what they described as a nearly completed bomb.
The tip of the building, being not far away, is pleasantly comprehensible to his customers.
At the northern tip of the building, however, the tip of the triangle narrows dramatically, and the building that seemed like such a thick, solid mass suddenly ends in nothingness.
During the rally, an OpAntiSH control group stayed at an activist's apartment located atop of a building on the tip of the square that served as a safe house.
But the notion that passengers would be able to descend an airport-style ramp from a moving airship to the tip of the tallest building in the world, even in excellent conditions, beggars belief.
Prior to this change, a building's architectural height was calculated from the main entrance to the tip of the spire; new standards measured from the lowest open-air pedestrian level of a building.
But straw bales are only the tip of the natural building iceberg.
Now we live happily in the back of a tall Midtown building, facing north, looking out over the backyards of town houses (there's a skyline view if you stand close to the window, with the tip of the Chrysler Building visible).
But it has even more to do with the simple love of the palimpsest of New York: the way that everything just sits together, old and new, ugly and lovely, the tiny superintending tip of the Chrysler Building and the vast desert of black surfaces and plastic bags flitting like tumbleweed below.
