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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...


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 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...


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,...


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...


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...


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...


March 2009…in Roma
Ciao Italy — Ancona, Urbino and Rome; compliments iGuzzini, Sistemalux and Dulanski Group. Part 1: Fratelli Guzzini factory visit in...


“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...


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’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,...


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,...


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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