Twelve Years Later: 1990s Blobitecture Apartment The New York Times 1.29.09

Twelve Years Later: 1990s Blobitecture Apartment
The New York Times 1.29.09

Another installment of Once/Again in today's Times — the Manhattan apartment of Lucy Waring was first featured in The New York Times in 1997 when it was completed by architects Sulan Kolatan and William Mac Donald for the previous owners, Beatrix Ost and Ludwig Kuttner. The extremely unique biomorphic walls and "blobitecture" are a result of the emerging digital design tools new to architects at the time...

The 1,600-square-foot two-bedroom apartment is bizarrely 90s with its acid colors and eerie bathroom. The full story from The New York Times: In a Manhattan Apartment, Back to the Future and more pictures in the slideshow!

(Images: Fred R. Conrad)

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I hate everything about that.

posted by littlebrownbird on January 29th 2009 at 3:13pm
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Not so sure about the bathroom, but the rest of the place would look pretty up-to-date with a different color than the sickly yellow-green, I think.

posted by particlebored on January 29th 2009 at 3:22pm
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Yeah, I really hate the bathroom :S
But the rest of the place still looks really good and contemporary. Pretty rare these days, huh.

posted by eddie p on January 29th 2009 at 4:41pm
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I think you could severely hurt yourself in that bathroom.

posted by LittleChris on January 29th 2009 at 5:37pm
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Yeah, I saw this in the Times. Usually I just hate the people the Times profile along with their decorating articles, but this woman seemed really wonderful. Very soulful. I liked the apartment, but if I had one plus million to buy a Manhattan apartment, that particular apartment wouldn't have made the cut.

posted by AustinSarah2 on January 29th 2009 at 8:58pm
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Voice of dissent - I like the bathroom!

posted by ryttu3k on January 30th 2009 at 6:50am
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The bathroom could definitely go 2 ways - painful death or a lot of fun.

posted by Miss Jess on January 30th 2009 at 9:25am
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Love it. I really do.

posted by Hinke on January 30th 2009 at 12:35pm
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other than the colours, i really like it. the bathroom MUST go, though.

posted by emily! on January 31st 2009 at 11:22am
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