USA

Penn Station and Moynihan Train Hall.

In the midst of a very bleak and confounding time of depression, pandemic and attempted coup, the Moynihan Train Hall has opened in New York, inside the James Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue, carving out a glass vaulted space for Amtrak, to atone for the destruction, one block east, of the entire old Pennsylvania Station which only…

January 15, 2021

Here in Van Nuys

Uncategorized

2021, Architecture, Moynihan Train Hall, NYC, Pandemic, Penn Station, USA
Dormant Beauty

On a Sunday evening in July, on foot, after a few beers, the old town of Van Nuys, carried a note of Tribeca 1985, in its summoning of potential, laid out, for dreamers and developers. There were empty storefronts and shabby alleys, but there were also women in chairs, attending children on bicycles, who…

July 24, 2017

Here in Van Nuys

Van Nuys and the Valley

“Nury Martinez” “City Council District #6”, “Technology Auto Body”, “Van Nuys Plating”, Architecture, Barrio, Bessemer, California, Calvert, CD6, Cedros St., decay, Delano, Latinos, Old Van Nuys, Photography, USA, VanNuys, Vesper St., Workers
Infrastructure Photos from Around the World.

Photo: by Juan n’Only President Obama spoke today about infrastructure underinvestment in America and the critical need to finance and rebuild public construction projects in the US. Our decaying roads, substandard transportation, shabby airports, underfunded parks, collapsing bridges; all of these are evidence of how America is falling apart. We need to invest in our…

October 11, 2010

Here in Van Nuys

Architecture

Architecture, Asia, China, decaying, Europe, falling, infrastructure, investment, Obama, Underfunded, USA