Still on a Hiatus

Thanks for your e-mails, but I've had to take this month off to focus entirely on the latest novel. 

Check back in mid-March for a new feature here on the blog.

Little Bytes Video: Park Avenue, Part One

Here's the latest video we uploaded on YouTube from our walk across 46th Street.

Little Bytes Recommends: MARTA SANDERS AT THE TRIAD

Marta Sanders sang her way through several Little Bytes including Broadway with Marta (A Walk across 46th Street); Madison Square, Part One (From Bowling Green to Columbus Circle); Tranquilizing a Tourist (A Walk across Wall Street); and The Cathedral in Central Park, Part 2 and 20 Million Visitors, How Many Crimes (Hoparound Tour).

One of the city's most talented cabaret singers, Marta is performing her show With a Song in My Heart at the Triad this weekend--Saturday at 9 and Sunday at 7.  Visit her new site for more information and tickets or to purchase her beautiful Corazon del Alma recording. 

And if you can't make it to NYC this weekend, realize she'll be in Bogota starting Tuesday!

AQUA: My Favorite New Skyscraper

But you won't find it in the Big Apple.  Aqua is a new residential tower in the architecturally spectacular city of Chicago.  At 82 stories, this is the tallest building ever designed by a woman (Jeanne Gang)  and, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful skyscrapers.  Read Paul Goldberger's article in The New Yorker about those brilliant white balconies that not only lend the tower its aesthetic elegance but serve multiple engineering tasks.  Most remarkably, in a city as windy as Chicago, those balconies break up the breezes removing the need for the customary tuned mass damper.