Caught My Eye

I always found Calvin Trillin's writing irritating so I got a bit of a thrill when I heard he'd been slapped down by another writer….aaah, the beauty of literary feuds…let's just say…CAL NO KNO' BBQ.

C-Monster makes a convincing (or is it gaudy?) case for the induction of "narchitecture" into the popular lexicon.

"The show could be summed up by printing 'WOW!' in large, bold-face letters and letting it go at that."

Stay tuned for hragvartanian.com's Pulitzer…any day now…

"Designed by GAD [Global Architectural Development], it’s a new fish market in Istanbul’s Besiktas district. Inhabiting a triangular urban site, the fish market.. Column-free, the new building is little more than a roof-curving down to meet the ground at the triangular site’s 3 points. The new market therefore retains the scale of the streets – defining a narrow passage between the buildings – while remaining open and public."