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Virtual Norwegian Summer

When In Oslo… Today I will be awake for 22 hours, the length of a summer’s day in Oslo. Up at 6:30am London time, will hop on the 8pm flight to New York here, and arrive home at 11:30pm New York time, assuming no flight, luggage, or taxi mishaps. Powered by Starbucks Latte. Management meetings went extremely well.

250 Bishopsgate, ABN-AMRO’s London headquarters, is a marvel of post-modern architecture, pictured at right. It’s all about glass panes set off at interesting angles, high ceilings, and trading floors where the sun indeed shines. Extra-wide escalators and transparent elevators add a note of whimsy, like something out of a Jacques Tati film. The atmosphere in London’s City (financial district) is several degrees less tense than that of Wall Street and Park Avenue. For a quick tour of City architecture, click here.


For years my NY business address was 270 Park Avenue, a black modernist pillbox where Darth Vader would feel right at home (pictured left). I much prefer Chase Manhattan Plaza downtown, Rockefeller’s shiny white 60-story vision, with its welcoming plaza and modern art centerpieces: Dubuffet’s 25-foot cartoon cutout and Noguchi’s circular sunken garden (pictures below).

I see New York is enjoying sunny, warm weather, must take a Central Park walk this weekend, or maybe go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.





























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