The Sartorialist is a photographer who captures images of the well-dressed in cities he travels to. Made up entirely of people s(he)? randomly approaches on the streets, proving that there is glamour in everyday life.

A breakdown of the different neighbourhoods below:

Harlem

SOHO

Greenwich Village

Blecker St, West Village

I can imagine how this’d translate in Singapore.

There are great blogs that both make my day the way they’re so beautifully written and conceived, makes me feel the slightest tinge of jealousy(how can anyone be that good and that prolific) but also cautions me that it’s NOT ok to write (shit) on the blog just so…
Below is an excerpt from the blog- on urban fabric, badass developers and the possible extinction of savile row…
That ‘meaningful sense of place’ is what the developers are playing with when they talk of “reinforcing the Savile Row brand”, but are they best placed to handle this kind of nuanced brand experience? Rhetorical. London and Britain has long suffered the iron grip of property developers on urban fabric. How is a 40% rent increase going to reinforce anything except the simple displacement of the current tenants? From this distance, this would appear to be another example of how British landlords often reject of the opportunity to combine history, context and innovation, and the long-term economic base that could engender, in favour of a short-term profit which (inadvertently?) changes a place’s identity forever.

Notice how trivia like coveted real estate in Monopoly and the Japanese word for suits are so neatly tied in?

Original post can be found here

1. Because there’s enough news in the papers about how rentals and prices have gone up.

2. Because the en bloc phenomenon has been covered to the death(or maybe not) .

3. Because a blog should be about psuedo-analysis and commentary, not the verbatim placement of related clippings from the local papers.

Photo link from we make money not art.

Have been sporadically thinking about a team photo- the current chess picture just doesn’t cut it for that specific purpose.
Was thinking of something very clean- blue jeans and white t-shirt sort of thing.
Or a bad imitation of trainspotting.
Then I saw the above photo of the fabrica team via wmma’s website.
Looks cool(although I still like the trainspotting idea…)

Form magazine, in their September issue, covered a few large, old apartments, in a spirit of defiance, perhaps, against the onslaught of en bloc sales recently.

I would really like to suggest featuring renovated apartments in buildings that have already been slated for en bloc. I know there’s at least one cool, well renovated apartment in Habitat 1(also Habitat II- but of course, the demolition of the Habitat condominiums is no less a travesty), a cool unit in Grange Tower, one in Lucky Tower and of course, Futura’s in danger too…