Out of Town: Brutal Boston

On emerging from the underground at Government Center I immediately felt like was back home, on the South Bank. Boston City Hall, Government Center (Gerhardt Kallmann and N. Michael McKinnell, 1969) Shot from the same spot. As Nicolai Ouroussoff put it in an NYT article last year, "This is not a friendly place for architecture."

From Dean Street to 'Wall Street'

The Newswalk Luxury Condo at 535 Dean Street reminds the BIB household of the faux-demolished aesthetic of interior designer Darien Taylor in Wall Street. Speaking of whom, the Lady BIB has an essay on Oliver Stone's '80s relic up at Slate. In other Lady BIB news, you can head over to the Boston Globe for her essay "The Advantages of Amnesia."

David Adjaye in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem is hosting an exhibition of models, drawings and films of David Adjaye's architectural work. The Lady BIB wrote a Boston Globe piece last year about the Adjaye-designed Idea Store (above) in Whitechapel, London. David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings starts tomorrow and runs to October 28.