At the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s 20th Presentation of the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards to be held on April 21, Brooklyn Heights’s Tom van den Bout and his wife Brenda Nelson will be honored for their architecture firm NV/da’s work on 36 Grace Court in the Heights. Of the projects to be recognized this […]
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Brooklyn Heights Residents Tom van den Bout and Brenda Nelson Win Preservation Award
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Brooklyn Heights Brownstone Featured in New York Social Diary
The Brooklyn Heights brownstone of designer Kathryn Scott and artist Wenda Gu is featured in New York Social Diary: NYSD: They are both organized and thorough to a point that fascinated us. Kathryn physically learned how to do various skills such as carpentry when the house was being renovated (one floor also serves as an […]
52 Sidney Place Reno: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Architects
Contractor/developer Ben Weiner tells the Brooklyn Eagle that his reno of 52 Sidney Place will be a work of “art” for the owners and he’s doing it without an architect: Brooklyn Eagle: “With all due respect to architects, you don’t always need one,” he said. “Everyone told me, ‘you can’t do it without an architect.’ […]
‘Build a better Brooklyn, block by block’
Borough President Marty Markowitz will host the eighth annual assembly of Federation of Brooklyn Block Associations, with the topic to “Build a better Brooklyn, block by block.” Per Marty’s press release: On Thursday, April 23, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will host the eighth annual assembly of the Federation of Brooklyn Block Associations, an opportunity […]
Heights Couple’s Kitchen Reno: Thrifty and Green
If you’re like us the words “thrifty” and “green” may just throw you into a fit of hipster hating backlash. Or maybe it would make you a little misty for the bearded Al Gore. Whatever. Today’s NY Times has a story about Katherine Belsey Davis and her husband’s (a musician, not named…hmm) Brooklyn Heights kitchen […]
Brooklyn Heights Green Thumb
At least now we know who to call to resurrect our window boxes: The Street.com: Find Your Green Thumb…: New Yorker Erin Combs managed to get the latter without the former — and if you're an urbanite who wants to add some natural beauty to your concrete existence, you'd do well to follow her example. […]
Stained Glass Floor
Brownstoner has a story today about a Brooklyn Heights couple who in the course of renovating have discovered a stained glass floor: Brownstoner: Stained Glass in the Floor: I wanted to share an architectural find my husband and I uncovered during the demolition phase of a coop apartment we recently purchased. The apartment is in […]
City Tech Seminar Examines “Anatomy of a Brownstone”
This drapery arrangement and chair design might have been found in a Brooklyn brownstone of the late nineteenth century, according to Debra Salomon of the New York City College of Technology ("City Tech"), a unit of CUNY. On Saturday, May 12, from 1 to 5 p.m., Ms. Salomon, along with a distinguished group of architects, […]
Free Event: (not so) Extreme Makeover
Your old home feeling a bit boring and cluttered? Just bought a new apartment and have no idea what to do with it? Want some free wine? Tonight, and the first Thursday of every month, from 6pm to 8pm the Design Within Reach store on Montague Street teams up with interior decorators Pret-a-Habiter for "Design […]
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