• About that plan to “speed up” Thanksgiving air travel. Verdict: not going to work & preposterous.
• Per yesterday’s post about Vornado Realty Trust and the Hotel Pennsylvania, comes Save the Hotel & Living It Up at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
• Jon Hicks’ slideshow of typography from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (via)
• Skyscrapr’d: The necessary corrective
• Long-title-blog-rant-of-the-day: Awesome Panoramic View of East River, Manhattan/Queens/Brooklyn Skyline from Southpoint Park that will be Ruined by Proposed Louis Kahn/FDR Memorial; very well. It isn’t as if we sport long named entries.
• Clinton Presidential Library is awarded LEED Platinum rating
• Pittsburgh Set To Allow Density Bonuses For Green Buildings – a LEED Certified or higher building will be eligible to be 20% larger
• Paris Underground – An extensive network of abandoned quarries, sewers and subway lines twists beneath modern Paris.