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Mullae Artist Village | Seoul
There are a few places I’ve been able to experience that were so visually distinctive and dense that there’s no way they could be ‘designed’. The old Inner Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo before it was bulldozed was one. NYC’s ABC Carpet in the early 2000s when it occupied the entire building was another sadly…
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Architecture Tour | Incheon
This is the first of a four post series about South Korea. To start, I’m sharing an architecture photo tour of the city of Incheon. Visitors to South Korea likely arrive and pass through this port city from the main international airport located on an adjacent island. While Incheon is at least an hour by…
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BMW M | Gears on the Pier
The twelfth edition of Classic Car Club Manhattan‘s Gears on the Pier series focused on BMW’s M Power performance cars. ‘M’ was once known as BMW Motorsport, a subsidiary that developed race cars and homologation models for the brand. The collection of cars on display spanned nearly a half century of BMW top tier of…
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HBF Showroom NYC
NYC is filled with some amazing spaces most locals and visitors don’t know exist. Design industry friends will be familiar with the showrooms located discretely in the upper floors of many buildings across Manhattan. A showroom visit can often times come with an added bonus of seeing the city from a rare perspective. Over the…
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2023 NYIAS | Surfaces and Materials
The trend of increased form and surface complexity has had a hold on automotive design for a while now. It used to be a space owned by Lexus but the layering of shapes and textures is broadly in use by most manufacturers currently in an effort to create distinctive flavors to similar looking SUVs and…
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2023 NYIAS
The 2023 New York International Auto Show made the best of a smaller roster of manufacturers. While electrification increased in emphasis across the show floors, the expanded mobility categories like e-bikes and scooters disappeared. There were only about a half-dozen formal unveilings and pretty much zero surprises. Even though the Seoul motor show takes place…