dérive*: A Cultural Week in Manhattan – 090725
July 19 — Washington Square park Walking home, in the warm breezes of this summer’s evening — Washington Square Park is alive! It seems...
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Leni Schwendinger
Jul 13, 20093 min
Guangzhou, China: A Growing, Glowing Trade of Light (a four-part series on China)
Guangzhou (广州市区) The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and its concurrent Guangzhou International Lighting Technology...
Leni Schwendinger
Jul 13, 20093 min
Hangzhou to Suzhou: From the Elegant (Grand Canal) to the Sublime (Lion Forest Garden)
Hangzhou (杭州市区) Today Hangzhou is an important cultural center in China. It was the capital of the Song Dynasty, starting 1127, for...
Leni Schwendinger
Jul 13, 20095 min
Shanghai: Simultaneously Chrysalis and Butterfly
Shanghai (上海) From Suzhou the bullet train to Shanghai took 40 minutes. The view from the taxi window showcased a city festooned in...
Leni Schwendinger
Jul 13, 20091 min
Shanghai Post-Script: Ancient Town Park
A highlight of our Shanghai trip was the visit to Gucheng Park (古代公园). On a hot June day people gathered in areas well suited… here men...
Leni Schwendinger
Jun 20, 20091 min
Quick, Fresh News on Infrastructure-related Funding in the U.S.
Image: MTC/California High-Speed Train from 1999 From Progressive Railroading: The Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009...
Leni Schwendinger
Jun 1, 20091 min
Triple Bridge Gateway: Award and Lecture (June 4 – NYC)
Triple Bridge Gateway was honored by the Society For Environmental Graphic Design’s MERIT AWARD on May 30, 2009. To learn more, join Leni...
Leni Schwendinger
May 26, 20094 min
dérive*: A Cultural Week in Manhattan – 090517
May 17th – Meatpacking District Design ’09 An unusual breezy Sunday. We met at the Standard Hotel. Quietly thrilling to walk a few...
Leni Schwendinger
May 8, 20091 min
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Federal Omnibus Budget, 2010 Federal Budget: Ready for fundi
A/E firms (and sub-consultants who regularly team for public works) should get their Federal Forms SF 330 updated and ready to create...
Leni Schwendinger
May 4, 20095 min
Leni Unpacks “Constructing The Economic Recovery; Business Opportunities for the Construction
Greater New York Construction User Council and the Building Trades Employers’ Association at AIA Center for Architecture (NYC), April...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 29, 20092 min
A Portal of Worship – the Mid-Manhattan Library, Light and Public Artworks
Joan Grubin explains "Portal" to Leni I love the Mid-Manhattan Library on West 40th and Fifth Avenue, the poor cousin to the 1911,...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 19, 20091 min
PUBLIC ART NEW YORK, a new guidebook, features Coney Island Parachute Jump illumination
Jean Parker Phifer, author and Francis Dzikowski, photographer have published a useful and inspiring guide to permanent public art in...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 19, 20092 min
Italy: iGuzzini joins the race for LED street lighting
iGuzzini factory near Ancona, Italy The iGuzzini lighting factory is set near the Adriatic sea, tucked into a composition of small...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 21, 20092 min
2009 AIANY Design Awards include Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center; lighting design by Light Pr
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Center, Brooklyn Museum; Photo by Aislinn Weidele/Polshek Partnership Architects After...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 14, 20091 min
March 2009…in Roma
Ciao Italy — Ancona, Urbino and Rome; compliments iGuzzini, Sistemalux and Dulanski Group. Part 1: Fratelli Guzzini factory visit in...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 17, 20093 min
“A Spatial Portrait” sculpture commission unveiled 2/13/09: thousands of diodes create a
In 2005, New Jersey’s waterside Liberty Science Center’s Great Hall building design was substantially underway. A revitalized science...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 14, 20091 min
Downstate (New York) Construction Conference, February 4, 2009
The visiting agencies were very helpful with the certification forms. Additionally, we visited with MTA/LIRR and learned about the GEC...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 7, 20092 min
Leni’s eclectic coverage of the Greater New York Construction User Council Breakfast: Infrastructure
Greater New York Construction User Council Panelists: Jason Bram (economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Seth Pinsky (President,...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 2, 20091 min
BBC Scotland and Glasgow School of Art interview
Glasgow School of Art – one of his masterpieces. Louise Lockwood, director, and I spent three hours together exploring references,...
Leni Schwendinger
Feb 2, 20091 min
Reclaiming the Dark Side of Town, an Underpass Becomes a Gateway
Triple Bridge Gateway unveils in Manhattan at Port Authority Bus Terminal, October 30, 2009: I had the pleasure of presenting Triple...
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