City as Museum, Space as Object
This looks like it could be fun, and exhausting:
Open House New Yorkcsmonitor article:
Here's your free key to the city's architectural treasuresAt the second annual Open House New York, more than 100 buildings in all five boroughs will give doormen and ticket takers the weekend off while letting the masses troop through for no charge. The sites range from a rustic 17th-century Quaker meetinghouse to the cutting-edge Austrian Cultural Forum, a tapering tower of glass and steel.
There are also monuments and arsenals for the historically minded, while engineers may relish a climb up a water tower or the descent to a steam-driven power plant.
During last year's inaugural event, about 45,000 people took advantage of the opportunity, and organizers expect this year's event, on Oct. 9 and 10 (the second weekend of the month), to be even more popular.
* Ray, 9/10/2004 01:03:53 PM
