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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Sojourn in the Adirondacks
Our week at the Whiteface Lodge, in Lake Placid amid the Adirondack Mountains, was, with one very small interlude of blogging, a study in total relaxation. We took advantage of few lodge activities, nor did we venture out to see … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Adirondack Park, Lake Placid NY, Miracle on Ice, North Pole NY, Whiteface Lodge, Winter Olympics
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What next? Jefferson? D.C.?
The statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville should not be pulled down. Or rather, I should prefer that it not be pulled down. There’s a difference. To eradicate every symbol of every political or cultural wrong in this or … Continue reading
TB: Beauty as a social good
Here is my Traditional Building blog post from last month, which ran with the following headline: “Beautiful Architecture is a Social Good. Why not bottle it?” It makes much of the fact that in Manhattan residents and visitors can stroll … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Atlantic Magazine, Beauty, Happiness, Lake Placid, Lost Providence, New York Yacht Club, Traditional Building
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Landmarking the NYPL
The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission has spoken. May we strive to decipher its garbled voice? Who can deny the good sense of protecting the glorious interiors of the New York Public Library – from the likes of its own … Continue reading
The old new Nave at Yale
The Nave, as the entrance hall of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale has long been known, was meticulously restored by Helpern Architects in 2014, revealing forgotten glories in the stonework by the original architect, James Gamble Rogers. I visited … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation, Uncategorized
Tagged Brown University, David Dunlop, Helpern Architects, ICAA, James Gamble Rogers, Joan Capelin, Jonathan Nelson, Mark Alden Branch, Michael Tyrrell, New York Times, Robert A.M. Stern, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, Yale Alumni Magazine
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New “Lost Prov” book page
Today marks the official launch of ” ‘Lost Providence’: the book” – a new page on my blog with all the news about the book. It reveals how to buy the book and where its author will speak about the … Continue reading
Temple to Music – 1812, too
We attended a pops concert of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday evening, a free event sponsored by the Rhode Island Foundation and held at the Temple to Music, on the grounds of Roger Williams Park. … Ah! Rhode … Continue reading
Is this architecture school?
What is architecture school? Metropolis has published a fine essay asking that question, written while a student by Miguel Córdova Ramírez, a 2014 graduate of the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Ricardo Palma University in Lima, the capital of Peru. … Continue reading
Save twin B’way cast-irons
In its length and breadth, Manhattan is a free art museum for all of those who will open their eyes, whether they are Knickerbocker heirs or hoboes from Hoboken. To walk down the street is to encounter museum-worthy works of … Continue reading
Graffartists are not people
Okay, if Brutalist architects are people (see previous post), then I must admit graffartists are, too. Yet how sad and appalling to read in today’s Providence Journal that David Macaulay’s delightful mural near the State Offices exit from Route 95 … Continue reading
Posted in Art and design, Urbanism and planning
Tagged art, Crime, David Macaulay, Graffiti, Kate Bramson, Ronald Dabelle, Tagging, Vandalism
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