Andrew
messtizo.bsky.social
Andrew
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The first step to changing the world is finding the right problem to solve.
April 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Wish there was a Caro-esque historical biography on Robert McNamara.
March 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Just learned Howard Hughes offered my grandfather a job and he didn’t take it. 🤦‍♂️
March 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
March 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Politicians pitching “fixing daylight savings time” is a red flag for me. Don’t talk to me about this bullsh*t until Americans can afford a home.
March 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A wise man once told me, “make room for a friend.”
March 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
if you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.

The Japanese Bridge in Hoi An, Vietnam
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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NEW: Mayoral hopeful and former city comptroller Scott Stringer lays out his view of a city in crisis and pitched himself as the right person to connect with voters.

"People want somebody who can walk into City Hall and know exactly what they’re doing."

Listen here:
LISTEN: Scott Stringer Says ‘The Greatest City in the World Is Broken Now’
Your questions answered about the greatest city in the world.
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Glad someone pointed out that the plot development in The Brutalist was ham-fisted and lazy. Maybe because it was so needlessly long. Not sure it was like porn, tho haha. This movie did not a nut bust.

open.substack.com/pub/theimmen...
what is porn?
In the most basic of senses, porn is an image (moving or still) whose contents are subservient to their effects on the viewer.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Alright, let’s hear it. What was the best building you saw in 2024?
December 30, 2024 at 5:52 PM
December 13, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Got my boss for Secret Santa. Got him a shirt that said, “Daddy’s Little Meatball”. Putting me on a PIP now.
December 6, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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The head of the agency that manages the city’s massive purchasing and real estate holdings announced her resignation to staff Tuesday — yet another top official in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to leave before he finishes his first term at City Hall.
City Operations Commissioner Resigns in Latest Adams Departure
Dawn Pinnock announces she’s leaving the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, an agency with vast power over city real estate and hiring.
www.thecity.nyc
April 17, 2024 at 3:19 PM
January 23, 2024 at 2:31 AM
January 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Do I look like Forest Gump or am I just sitting on a park bench with something on my lap?
January 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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“Revivalism produces strange bedfellows. Or maybe it’s better to say, with apologies to Marx, that utopian architecture, as distinct from other varieties, happens twice: the first time as critique, second as control.”

@hawthorne.bsky.social writes in Issue #38/39.

nyra.nyc/articles/mac...
January 9, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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We would like suggest you start a subscription at nyra.nyc/subscribe before the year ends.

Not convinced by this photo of the proprietor of our local luncheonette, Johny, reading the issue featuring his luncheonette on its cover?

We have prepared this helpful list:
December 30, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Word for 2024: Frugillionaire
December 25, 2023 at 4:55 AM
Talking the future of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) at the AIA Center for Architecture AEC Tech symposium today.

As someone who started young in the industry, over the years I’ve become all-too-familiar with the resigned disappointment my
November 4, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Finally watching Buffalo ‘66. Holy crap Anjelica Huston.
September 14, 2023 at 2:49 AM
September 13, 2023 at 3:29 AM
How do pictures look on this thing?
Bruce Goff // Struckus House
August 28, 2023 at 10:01 PM