Monthly Archives: November 2014

Scoop on poop at Burj

Posted on November 30, 2014 by

Not sure I want to touch this with a ten-foot pole, but inquiring minds want to know, I’m quite certain, despite my cautionary note, what the process of defecation entails at the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in … Continue reading →

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Another sharp eye . . . ?

Posted on November 29, 2014 by

Here’s a comment that just came in to the TradArch list by Andrès Duany. He helped found and has been the most active leader of the New Urbanism movement. Today, after winning the Driehaus Award of 2009, he is writing … Continue reading →

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A sharp eye into classicism

Posted on November 29, 2014 by

Bruce Donnelly, an urban planner and design theorist from Cleveland, had two very interesting posts on the TradArch list yesterday. In the first passage, he is referring to comments from others about how classical architects can learn from modern architecture. … Continue reading →

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Nod of the Royal Oak

Posted on November 27, 2014 by

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
As a board member of the New England Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, I am greatly pleased to learn that the ICAA has received the 2014 Heritage Award of…

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Thanks for this parade!

Posted on November 27, 2014 by

Thanks for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, that’s what I say. I have been watching it this afternoon, and after a while it occurred to me that NBC had placed every one of its cameras so that the backdrop for … Continue reading →

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Nod of the Royal Oak

Posted on November 27, 2014 by

As a board member of the New England Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, I am greatly pleased to learn that the ICAA has received the 2014 Heritage Award of the Royal Oak Foundation. The Foundation is … Continue reading →

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Mansion envy, circa 1912

Posted on November 26, 2014 by

Frankly, I don’t see anything wrong with the house pictured above (check out the urchins of wealth in Central Park). The mansion at 960 Fifth Ave. and East 77th, in Manhattan, was built in 1910 by Sen. William Clark (D-Mont.), … Continue reading →

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Quoins on the shop floor

Posted on November 24, 2014 by

There are many categories of architecture porn. (I hasten to say that’s a good thing.) One of my favorites is long lists in prose of ornamentation. So I was, shall we say, charmed to read architect Joel Pidel’s recent thread … Continue reading →

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Providence No. 1 U.S. city

Posted on November 24, 2014 by

This is big, folks! Listen up! Travel + Leisure, the top magazine of its kind, has ranked Providence No. 1 in its list of best U.S. cities. “5 Reasons to Visit Providence” is here, and it is a joy to … Continue reading →

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Conflict at the Frick

Posted on November 22, 2014 by

  Andrew Reed, nephew of the classical revival’s late champion Henry Hope Reed, has asked me to post a petition to save the Frick Gallery from its proposed renovation. I wrote back that I was at odds with myself over … Continue reading →

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