Seen & Heard: Lambert & Fils at Duane?

AN ADDITION TO OUR DESIGN DISTRICT?
For some weird reason I stood on the street watching this for quite a while the other night — it’s kind of hypnotic. I also think it’s a sign (literally) that the former Thomas Hayes Studio space at Duane and Hudson will be taken over soon by the Canadian lighting designer Lambert & Fils.

FLU SHOT ANYONE?
A. reports that the line at CityMD has gotten longer with each day. Flu shots? More covid?

PEDESTRIAN ASSIST AT CHAMBERS
I never thought these things worked — it made no sense to me, since lights in NYC are carefully timed down to the half second, that a pedestrian could interrupt the scheduled timing. But here they are, four ped buttons, one at each corner, complete with a computer-generated voice to assist. I’ve asked DOT to explain how they work…

 

3 Comments

  1. “In New York City, only about 100 of the 1,000 crosswalk buttons actually function, confirmed a spokesperson from the city’s Department of Transportation in an email. That number has steadily decreased in recent years: When the New York Times revealed that the majority of New York’s buttons didn’t work in 2004, about 750 were still operational.”

    CNN: “Illusion of control: Why the world is full of buttons that don’t work”
    Published 3rd September 2018

    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/placebo-buttons-design/index.html

  2. It’s placebo effect.

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