A rectilinear, front-loading waste receptacle. Specimens come in different finishes based on location, generally featuring a monolithic powder-coated steel body with gently curved edges and a convex lid that forms the receptacle cover.
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Bryant Park Litter Receptacle
The Bryant Park Litter Receptacle is a distinctive waste container designed specifically for Bryant Park in New York City.
Public Space Receptacle
The Public Space Receptacle (PSR) is one of many standard waste bins used across New York City by DSNY for pedestrian-generated litter.
Central Park Conservancy Recycling System
Park slats of varying openings & colors hortus carrum Description The Central Park Conservancy Recycling System is a set of standardized waste and recycling receptacles used in Central Park. The system consists of three bin variations, each with the same form factor but color-coded and labeled to distinguish between general waste, cans & bottles, and…
Roosevelt Island Bulletin Board
Informing the community notitia insula Ordersupellex Familyviso Genus notitia Species notitia insula Description A bulletin board monolith to hang community announcements, with address ring on top. Identification Cylindrical concrete monolith 1.5-2m in diameter, often with taped paper; with red metal top, often with spray-painted address. Habitat On Main Street sidewalk and plazas on Roosevelt Island.…
Roosevelt Island Master Plan
I spent the weekend playing around Roosevelt Island, the tiny island in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. It’s an amazing place, which feels like another world. Accessible by the F train, Tram, ferry, and car you can get to it, but it isn’t easy. At the southern end is the Franklin D. Roosevelt…
Increments of Neighborhood by Brian O’Looney
Neighborhood and building typology are a scale higher than we deal with here. So I’ve been having a great time reading Increments of Neighborhood by Brian O’Looney, recently released by Oro Editions. I’ll have a full review on the website soon, but this is a great book for those interested in urban typologies – both…
Observed: dumpster planter
To match the adaptive reuse aesthetic at Industry City in Brooklyn, they have deployed street-level planter dumpsters which have been painted various shades of pink, yellow, and red.
Feminist Architecture: a new way with Grace Thomas
Hello, my name is Grace Thomas and I am a third-year undergraduate architecture student in the UK. I fell in love with architecture after walking around the Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona. I was inspired by how much detail and meaning building parts could have and the effect a building has on people’s…
Desert quarantine: Mary and Davit rethink the village
Time alone gave Mary and Davit Jilavyan space to rethink that makes a village important to them: color, joy, and randomness.