Posted by Leonard Steinberg on July 3rd, 2012 The invasion of those hideous fluorescent light bulbs and cold-looking alternatives to incandescent lighting has snowballed recently and the results are simply horrendous, providing a quality of light that leaves humans looking in-human and rather hideous. Some lobbies and hallways of high end New York buildings are beginning… [Read More]
FIVE BASIC THINGS ALL BUILDINGS MUST DO
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on April 21st, 2012 As a large swath of very beautifully designed buildings head our way in New York City, a result of the re-awakening of new development construction that was dormant for several years, I want all ‘older/existing’ co-op’s and condo’s to acknowledge that soon they could be viewed as… [Read More]
ENERGY SAVING NOW: DON'T WAIT FOR THE GOVERNMENT!
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on April17, 2011 New York City is a city large enough to showcase how smart business, common sense and critical mass can impact huge shifts in our daily lives: and now the focus turns to energy savings. While the world waits for ‘government’ to come up with some new invention to… [Read More]
E.T. is the new I.T.
Did you know that the waste produced from burning coal can be re-used to create portland cement? Did you know that a incandescent light fixture replaced with a LED light fixture saves about 80% of energy consumption. So while the world seeks some miraculous new source of energy, the rest of the world has discovered… [Read More]
WE LOVE THIS LIGHT! THE UN-FLUORESCENT, EFFICIENT LIGHT.
We found this simple, elegant light fixture in the bathrooms of a hotel in Italy and thought it to be the best lighting for a bathroom. “This lighting is both super-efficient and also did not give you that hideous blue-white, sickly appearance created by the average fluorescent lighting fixture found now in too many bathrooms,”… [Read More]