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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Scoop on poop at Burj
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 . . . ?
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
A sharp eye into classicism
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
Nod of the Royal Oak
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!
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
Nod of the Royal Oak
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
Mansion envy, circa 1912
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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Tagged Clark Mansion, Manhattan, Poetry, Wallace irwin, William A. Clark
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Quoins on the shop floor
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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Tagged Andres Duany, Architecture Porn, art, Joel Pidel, Marketing, Michael Rouchell, Ornament, Sales
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Providence No. 1 U.S. city
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
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Best Cities, Cities, Providence, Tourism, Travel, Travel and Tourism
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