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Artist: Christine Elliott Grey
My work uses textile processes in conjunction with things, often objects of daily use, to express ideas about the interaction between language and experience.
Salthouse 06, Salthouse Church, Norfolk, England, UK
W.J Balsdon & Sons heavy haulage Scania 580 V8 5 axle beast is seen on the M4 near Swindon.
28/08/2017
Decadent layers of flourless chocolate sponge, almond praline feullitine, salted popcorn disks, pop rocks, dulce de leche and vanilla almond chantilly
W Hoboken
225 River Street
Hoboken, New Jersey
The two story reception area with the far wall holding artist Ann Carrington's "Manhattan Mettle'' - a metal-and-magnet mosaic. The metal is scrap metal apllied to a magnetic wall (26 feet x 16 1/2 feet). The mosaic was constructed on site and took two weeks. According to the artist the thousands of metallic objects include dollars and dimes, New York subway tokens, spanners, saws, ship building nails and chains.
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The W Hoboken Hotel & Residences opened in the spring of 2009. The 26 story condo-hotel has 225 hotel rooms and 40 condominium residences. The $150 million hotel sits on the Hudson riverfront in Hoboken, New Jersey - named after the Old Dutch word Hoebuck, meaning high bluff) - facing mid-town Manhattan. This type of condo-hotel property is generally found in splashy cities such as Miami or Hong Kong. It took Hoboken talent, the Applied Development Company based in Hoboken, to find the wherewithal to develop such an ambitious and hip hotel for Hoboken.
Applied Development Company has extensive ownership and management experience in Hoboken’s apartment market, having built many residential and mix use projects. The principals of Applied Development Company (other legal entities are 225 River Street LLC and Ironstate Development Co.) are David and Michael Barry. Their father Walter and older brother Joseph started Applied Development in 1970 and helped develop Hoboken's gritty riverside into a desired residential area teeming with restaurants, shops and young professionals. Walter has passed the business to two younger sons, David and Michael. In 2004 Joseph Barry was sentenced to two years in federal prison for making kickbacks to county executives.
Applied recently completed the Pier Village, a mix use project in Long Branch, NJ which includes a boutique 40-room hotel - The Bungalow. The Bungalow is a very hip, yet luxury hotel which town planners say revitalized the Jersey Shore town of Long Branch. Also, the Barry brothers are in the early development stage for a W Hotel in Marrakech, Morocco.
The architect was Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects - a NYC firm which also designed the W New York - Downtown Hotel and Residential Condominiums located next to the World Trade Center Memorial Site and The Setai Fifth Avenue in NYC, a 57-story hotel and residential tower containing 157 hotel rooms, 57 hotel apartments.
The W Hoboken was designed with a wedge-shaped tower - this to maximize the number of hotel rooms that would have Manhattan/Hudson River views. The 225 hotel rooms are located in the 14-story mid-section of the tower with the upper 9 floors containing the 40 condominium residences.
It was reported that the 40 condos were sold out quickly and at record prices for Hoboken. According to realdeal.com the average condo price in the building was $1,075 per square foot or upwards of $2 million for a 1,900 sq. ft. two-bedroom.
There were early opponents to the construction of the hotel. In 2004 the Hoboken City Council approved the hotel's construction by a narrow vote of 5-4. Many felt the 26-story glass tower did not fit into the fabric of what Hoboken's waterfront looks like. The W Hoboken, a metal and glass building, contrasts sharply with the existing mid-rise, masonry buildings on the river front.
Barry Sternlicht, the founder of Starwood Hotels, is credited with the creation of W Hotels. Following Starwood’s acquisition of Westin Hotels in 1994 he determined there was a need for a "smaller but urban" Westin Brand - therefore the name W Hotel. Starwood's first W Hotel opened in 1998 with the W New York, a multi-million dollar conversion of the Doral Inn hotel at 541 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
As stated in the hotel's opening press release - "the W Hoboken provides a contemporary cool environment for both international jetsetters and local loyalists".
The first two floors of the building houses The Chandelier Room lounge and Zylo Steakhouse, W's Living Room with 40 foot ceilings, a Bliss spa, fitness facility, a wood-paneled multi-purpose ballroom, and multiple conference rooms.
The hotel's all-day dining room is Zylo. The restaurant is operated by Cornerstone Restaurant Group (operators of Michael Jordan-brand restaurants). The opening chef was Troy Unruh. In May 2011 Seadon Shouse was appointed Executive Chef. Shouse previously was the Sous Chef with Morgan’s Hotel Group at the Hudson Hotel.
The hotel's 2nd floor indoor/outdoor cocktail lounge is the Chandelier Room. W Hoboken owners Michael and David Barry contracted with the EMM Group’s Eugene Remm, Mark Birnbaum and Michael Hirtenstein to conceptualize and operate the destination, high-energy bar. EMM is well-known for the success of their Manhattan club - Tenjune.
Anna MacDiarmid is the general manager for the W Hotel in Hoboken. She is quoted saying the focus of the hotel is on personalized service and “whatever a guest wants whenever they want it as long as it is legal.”
W Hoboken appointed Katie Donald to Director of Sales and Marketing in January 2012. She previously served as the Director of Sales and Marketing for Starwood at The Westin Auckland in her native New Zealand.
All photos and text by Dick Johnson
January 2011
richardlloydjohnson@hotmail.com
212-832-0098
Shortly before its transfer to the British Gypsum Ltd's Thistle Works in Westmorland, Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank W.T.T. (Works No.2134 built in 1942) stands outside one of the two loco sheds at the Cocklakes Works in the late-1960s.
© Gordon Edgar collection - all rights reserved. Please do not download, copy, or use this image without my explicit prior permission
J Bar W Ranch - Battle of The Beast - J Bar W Ranch Rodeo - For videos see: www.frederick.com/jbarw
photos by Frederick.com
Shimmering sign at the entrance to the W Hotel on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois.
Tenuous Link and [CC]: W.
A Guy Arab 111 with Massey C35F body.This bus had a Gardner 5LW engine and was new in June 1946.
myntransportblog.
A view from the parking lot at Central Meadow of walkers and the gravel bin ruins.
Taken at Chambers Bay's Central Meadow, University Place, Washington.
This is a hand-held, 3 exposure, -2/0/+2, HDR processed with PhotomatixPro and then turned to B&W. Reminds me of an old "B" Sci-Fi movie from the 1950's, lol. It reminds my mother of old western movies. :-)
The Engineering Magazine
April 1911
George W. Perkins
1905-1981
Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter
Built at Superior WI by Superior Shipbuilding Co., Hull 512
Launched June 26, 1905
With Elbert H. Gary, William E. Corey and Henry C. Frick longest vessel on the Great Lakes (until J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry H. Rogers of 1906 — superseded Augustus B. Wolvin of 1904)
569’ LOA, 549’ LBP, 56’ beam, 31’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 12’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1800 IHP
Enrolled at Marquette MI July 3, 1905 (#1)
558.2 x 56.0 x 26.5, 6406 GT, 4922 NT US 202166 to:
Superior Shipbuilding Co.
Reenrolled at Duluth MN July 8, 1905 (#2) to:
Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, Harry Coulby, Mgr. (home port Duluth MN)
Entered service July 1905
Rebuilt 1943 at Conneaut OH. Hatches to 24’ centers with hatch crane.
Remeasured to 556.2 x 56.2 x 26.5, 6553 GT, 5452 NT
Fleet reincorporated 1949 in Delaware (home port to Wilmington DE)
Fleet merged July 1951 into parent United States Steel Corporation (home port to New York NY)
Sold 1964 to Redwood Enterprises Ltd., Hamilton ON, Westdale Shipping Ltd., Mgr. (home port to Hamilton Bermuda) and renamed Westdale (2)
Enrolled British at 556.8 x 56.2 x 26.3, 7584 GT, 5440 NT Br 317133
Enrollment transferred to Canada 1966 Can 317133 (home port to Hamilton ON)
Transferred 1969 to International Cruising Co.
Transferred 1971 to Reoch Transports Ltd.
Boilers converted to oil firing 1973
Transferred 1976 to Dale Transports Ltd.
Sold 1977 to Pierson Steamships Ltd. (the Soo River Co.), Mississauga ON, Westdale Shipping Ltd., Mgr. and renamed H. C. Heimbecker.
Suffered cracked boiler late Oct 1981 downbound with grain for Owen Sound ON. Continued voyage, unloaded cargo at Owen Sound and cleared Oct 29 for Ashtabula OH (stopping at Goderich ON to send ashore the body of a crew member who died aboard ship). Traded to Triad Salvage Co., Ashtabula for str. Maxine, which they had just acquired at auction. Scrapped at Ashtabula.
See history in Detroit Marine Historian Dec 1981 (#222)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 263
-Vessel Histories of Sterling Berry
Capt. Charles W. Underhill by unidentified photographer. A student at Madison University and member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the start of the war, he and a college mate raised a company in 1862. It became Company G of the 114th New York Infantry. In this image he wears the sword, sash and belt presented to him by his friends on his graduation from Madison. He went on to serve as regimental adjutant and captain. Wounded in battle at Opequan on Sept. 19, 1864, he was captured at Cedar Creek exactly one month later and remained a prisoner until February 1865. He survived the war and went on to become an attorney.
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