When we were waiting for the bus to JFK, we got very bored, so we started taking random photos with Kyla's Polaroid camera, retro. (I look like a toddler in this shot, but atleast I am choking Alicia so that cool.)

This was a pretty jampacked day, we meetup again with our professor and went to SoHo. We meetup with the project architect of Herzog de Meuron's 40 Bond. 40 Bond is very hi end condos developed by Ian Schrager (founder of Studio 54), the top half of building is all glass, even the aqua framing around the windows are glass tubes. The bottom is kind of odd, its an attached screen that was inspired by graffiti. After that we pass by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa's new museum that is completely white and looks like a buch of stacked boxes shifted.  We later went to midtown, our professor had a great idea of going on top of Port Authority where we can get a better view of Renzo Piano's New York Times HQ.  After that we had a meeting with Resolution 4.  Resolution 4 became very popular after wining a competition for Dwell Magazine, their main focus is on modular architecture that can be built in factories instead of on site.  Its a completely Mac office, I probably saw 4 iphones sitting of people's desk.  We capped off the meetup by going on the rooftop, which was amazing and scary at the same time.  We ended the day with cappuccinos in Little Italy.

Day 4, I went to my architecture class's site next to the UN, (its the pic with the construction site). After that we walked by Grand Central where they closed down a few blocks for a street market. The image above is of one of the vendor's sign, the irony in it is that I was joking to some girls on the way up about how everything in NY is expensive, "even dollar stores are double the price", to my suprise they are. Later I took the Long Island Railroad, to see my Uncle and cousins, which was cool becuase they haven't seen me since I was 5 years old.

While I was in New York, I took the opportunity to network a little. I meetup with Heron Preston on Day 3, at the Naked Offices in Soho. Heron is a Junior Strategist at Naked Communications, he strategizes market campaigns for companies. This was my first attempt at networking, Heron was definitley a cool person and he making a lot of big power moves in New York. The meetup last about 40min and the topic vary from business, school, and NY. While I was there I went out on the balcony and took some shots of people below, very nice views from above. The images of Heron above are taken by me, they both cam out blurry, so I throw a scan of his cool business card on top of the blurriest.

(If you not familiar with Heron's Blog, check it out here, has him jetsetting from country to country and doing alot of networking around New York) 

This is outisde Naked Communications, which is in front the BAPE store, it took me forever to finsh this place, mainly because some kid in a Supreme T-shirt pointed me the wrong direction and I walk down Greene St to Canal St.