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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Things we’ve left behind us
Hats off to Cliff Vanover for sending this glorious photo, a timely reminder of the things we’ve left behind us. One we know will return next winter. The others … well, some day beautiful buildings will come back into fashion.
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Photography, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Cliff Vanover, Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, New York, Shorpy, Snow
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Beam me up, Alex!
Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam recently saw “Look Up!” – the TV ad beamed around the country by the American Institute of Architects. In his latest piece, “Look up, there is a problem with architecture,” he seems not to have … Continue reading
Latest on Macintosh rebuild
An experienced Glasgow firm, Page/Park, has been chosen in a competition to restore and renovate the burned masterpiece of Scotland’s great architect Charles Rennie Macintosh – the Glasgow School of Art and its Macintosh Library. The Guardian’s story runs under … Continue reading
Last wooden bridge in Prov.
In an excellent online post for the Providence Journal, photographer Sandor Bodo notes the demise and, more recently, the removal of the last wooden river bridge in Providence. It is called “Documenting the fall of Providence’s last wooden river bridge,” … Continue reading
Hyperadvertising in Russia
Roy Lewis has sent two marvelous illustrations, below, that remind me of my post on the “Hyperphotography of Jean-François Rauzier,” in particular his “Versailles,” above, which I used to illustrate a number of posts a year or so ago. When … Continue reading
Yemen, we hardly knew ye!
Jules Pitt has sent to TradArch an extraordinary photo of a town in Yemen, which he notes is in the news. So it is. I suppose the civil war there (now it’s a civil war; what has it been these … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Other countries, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Arab, Curiositas, ISIS, Jules Pitt, Sanaa, Yemen
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Surprise! Walkers can drive
City Lab has an article by Eric Jaffe called “Toward a Simple and Universal Law of Pedestrian Behavior” that belongs in the files of the Department of Redundancy Department. Not that it isn’t interesting. To a flâneur like me, anything … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning
Tagged City Lab, Eric Jaffe, Flaneur, Pedestrian, Plaza, William Hazlitt
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At the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Friday evening’s lecture by Margot Ellis at the College Club of Boston about Americans in Paris, the book she wrote with Jean Paul Carlhian about the American students at L’École des Beaux-Arts, was a marvel to behold – as is … Continue reading
Thom Mayne in Alaska, 2005
I referred yesterday in “Heidi’s chilly new neighbor,” to my column almost precisely a decade ago on Thom Mayne’s submission in a design competition for a new state capitol in Juneau, Alaska. Here is that column: A ‘bad-boy’ capitol for … Continue reading
Friday: “Americans in Paris”
Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Front cover of “Americans in Paris.” (amazon.com) Margot Ellis will be in Boston to discuss her book Americans in Paris, co-authored and inspired by the late Jean Paul Carlhian, who died before its…
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