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The essential guide to Easter in Spain

March 28, 2018

The Local gives you the lowdown on how to celebrate Semana Santa like a Spaniard. This year Easter Sunday falls on April 1st but celebrations of the biggest religious festival of the year begin a week earlier. Why is Easter such a big deal in Spain? Holy Week (Semana Santa) is the biggest religious celebration of the year in Spain, which means public holidays, a good deal of eating and drinking and lots of processions. Easter is a time fo...

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Where Top Chefs Go Out to Eat in New York

March 27, 2018

Some fancy, some divey, all delicious. It seems everyone is a restaurant expert these days, from your overly opinionated office mate to anonymous Yelpers with an axe to grind. But if there’s one group that truly knows how to pick a good place, it’s a chef. Where do the best professional cooks go to eat in New York when they’re not doing it as part of their job? It turns out, they go everywhere: to after-hours joints in Littl...

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Gaze upon these first renderings for Cumulus tower

March 27, 2018

The mixed-use development would bring a 30-story tower to West Adams Designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Cumulus will include a 30-story tower, plus plazas, offices, and shops. Renderings by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, courtesy of Carmel Partners A major project planned for a West Adams property has been mostly a mystery since it was first proposed in 2015. Now, we’re getting our first good look at what could be in store for the site at La Cieneg...

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Winners Chosen For Fisher Brothers’ Park Avenue Design Competition Depict Major Median Potential

March 23, 2018

Park gallery space, by Maison Park Avenue is an iconic fixture of Manhattan, and its legacy and awe-inspiring scale have influenced city planning across the globe. While many buildings are now planned or rising along adjacent blocks, there is one aspect of the street that has remained antiquated. In fact, the medians in its center have not been significantly altered in a century. Fisher Brothers rightfully believes this should be reconsidered, ...

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Zombified Plans Revealed For Supertall 5 World Trade Center

March 21, 2018

5 World Trade Center Wide, image by Kohn Pedersen Fox With 175 Greenwich Street nearing its opening day and 200 Greenwich Street hopefully expected to begin construction within the next few years, most of the World Trade Center’s rebuilding is nearing completion. But one major hole in Downtown’s fabric still remains, at the site of the former Deutsche Bank Building. Plans for a pot-bellied skyscraper had been proposed around the time of the...

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Here’s what South Park’s massive Hope + Flower project will look like someday

March 20, 2018

The two buildings will include a combined 730 apartments. Rendering courtesy Onni Group Construction is well underway on a pair of tall apartment towers in busy South Park, and a promotional website for the luxury rental complex (first spotted by Urbanize LA) offers a glimpse of what the project will look like when it’s complete. Called Hope + Flower, the development will bring two new high-rises to a block-long lot along 12th Street (bet...

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The future is now: Driverless cars could upend the real estate market

March 19, 2018

Will access to mass transit matter in an autonomous future? Driverless car (Credit: GM/Cruise) The mass adoption of driverless cars could shift some of the traditional rules that govern real estate values, particularly those concerning access to mass transit. Fully driverless cars are heading to California’s streets in April, following state approval, so that future could be a lot closer than it seems. Having a driverless opti...

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The Shed At Hudson Yards Announces First Commissions, Interior Renderings Revealed

March 18, 2018

As the largest planned development in the United States inches closer to completion, The Shed at Hudson Yards has announced the first group of commissions to be on display during the 2019 inaugural season. The Shed will be New York City’s first and only arts center dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting new work across the performing arts, visual arts, and pop culture areas. The mixed-use space is expected to be open to the pu...

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€6m terminal boost for Costa del Sol airport

March 18, 2018

AENA is to invest millions of euros in Malaga Airport’s Terminal 2. The project, which has been awarded to company Comsa, will be completed within 20 months, modernising the area to the standards of Terminal 3. According to the company, the project will ‘take in the Departures area, including the check-in foyer, Arrivals and the intermediate floors to the north and south.’ During the works Terminal 2’s flooring will be replace...

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Central Park Tower Stretches Toward Supertall Territory On Way To 1,550′ Pinnacle

March 15, 2018

Nordstrom Tower/217 West 57th Street, image from Extell After covering 220 Central Park South and 111 West 57th Street, it’s time we cover the tallest of the three skyscrapers under construction on Midtown’s “Billionaire’s Row”. 217 West 57th Street, aka Central Park Tower, is currently on track to reach 1,550 feet above the ground. Once complete, Extell’s new supertall will be the tallest residential building in the country, an...

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