Another shot that shows the wall of coffee lids designed by architects Lewis Tsurumaki Lewisat at Ini Ani Espresso Bar in New York City. Here we see mirror slivers embeded in the wall to break up the pattern and to add depth and reflected light to the space. Ivan CorsaContinue Reading
Detail image of innovative interior decor feature at Ini Ani Espresso Bar in New York City. The wall pattern is made from impressions of plastic coffee cup lids in plaster. The cafe interior was developed by the NYC architects Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. Ivan Corsa Photo
One of our favorite cafes in the Lower East Side is Ini Ani Espresso Bar on Stanton St. The small cafe has an exquisite interior designed and built by a local architecture firm called Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. The architects made an innovative use of materials to decorate the walls andContinue Reading
Close-up shot of tag by “Sasse” in the East Village on future site of luxury condo development. Ivan Corsa Photo
“Sasse” is the name, “writin’” is the game. Nice, quick aerosol up in an empty lot with basketball backboard on East 1rst Street in the East Village. Eventually this will all be gone and in its place … a high-rise with luxury condos and loft apartments for the New Downtowners.Continue Reading
In New York City, if you’re engaged in any kind of construction, whether putting up a new luxury condo or renovating a factory to make way for loft apartments or buidling a new restaurant interior, you’ll need city work permits for construction and these permits must be posted in publicContinue Reading
We like how the purple of the No. 7 Line circle/graphic symbol on the New York City subway system works well with the silvery stainless steel finish of the subway car itself. The number of arts projects and the amount of graphic design that has gone into decoration and visualContinue Reading
This series of numbered panes on the side of a Water St. office building is a clock. As a piece of architecture, it is intriging and looks more like a work of post-modern art than a serious, practical — if novel — way of keeping time. The historic Wall StreetContinue Reading
When you see the high-rise Citibank Building in Long Island City, Queens, it looks clearly out of place among the renovated turn-of-the-century industrial buildings (now lofts) and low-rise brick tenement buildings and clap-board townhouses, as if the glass office tower had wandered away from the massive cluster of skyscrapers justContinue Reading
This image if a wall along 1rst St., between Bowery and 2nd Ave. in the East Village, really speaks for itself. Here we see some really good graf and mural painting mixed together to make a collage of aerosol art. It’s an impressive testament to the artists and writers’ madContinue Reading
SSUR Plus is a select shop and exclusive, niche brand (along the lines of A Bathing Ape or Alife) of hip-hop-inspired casual clothing — hoodies, tees, jeans and gear. The store attracts hipster tourists from as far away as Tokyo and Stockholm. Its front window is the bomb! The BruceContinue Reading
The soul of the New York City downtown music scene, Tonic is small venue housed in a simple one-storey warehouse on Norfolk St., in the Lower East Side. The influential and down-to-earth club is home to avant-garde and experimental live music, as well as a favorite tour stop for indie-rock,Continue Reading
The work of the artist WK Interact is some of the most easily recognizable of downtown New York City. The artist, whose studio/shop is on the Lower East Side (LES), creates large scale black-and-white murals, paste-ups and dimensional works that show people mixed with imagery of authority, violence, fast motion,Continue Reading
Popular purveyor of smart, classic handbags and accessories, Kate Spade has a massive and always busy store in the heart of the Soho lofts-and-shops district in New York. Even at a time when there’s construction work or renovations being done and scaffolding surrounds the landmarked cast-iron loft building where theContinue Reading
The glass-Plexi staircase at the center of the Apple Store, Soho, which we think is still one of the best Apple Store spaces of all we’ve seen. (And we’ve seen quite of few of them actually.) The home of the iPod and other istuff is located in a former USContinue Reading
Pictured above is one of two paneled murals depicting actual immigrants living in the Lower East Side or LES. (The other panel can be found here.) The LES is historically the great immigrant hood of New York City, where waves upon wave of 19th and 20th century immigrants — Irish,Continue Reading
Real estate is an obsession for most New Yorkers. Even those not actively in the land development game — most of us — or even those not in some way invested in property seem to be conversant in the the current goings-on of New York City real estate, especially itsContinue Reading
We love the bold, yet weathered, exterior of this car body shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It certainly gets your attention and tells you what they’re about with vivid, effecive simplicity: collision work. And it does it with a simple aesthetic — but an aesthetic nonetheless. Check out the combination ofContinue Reading
Several layers of Krylon ups on this NoLIta building have been cannibalized by several more layers of wheat-pasted street art and promotional graphica. Here’s the breakdown: the star here is the set of grenade images by the well-known Brooklyn street artist Bäst, whose work is partly covered by an anonymouslyContinue Reading
A well-executed and fully-realized aerosol throw-up by “Siker” on the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side, where spacious, renovated million-dollar luxury loft apartments are now standing shoulder-to-shoulder with crumbling tenements crammed with Chinese immigrants. The real estate boom is on, but aerosol artists still leave their mark. Ivan Corsa Photo
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