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Category Archives: Architecture
No style war at the North Pole!
A stroll, or troll, on the Internet in search of imagery depicting Santa’s workshop at the North Pole dredged up a host of theories, some of the mind, some of the commercial imagination. The commander in chief is away this … Continue reading
Bad Mad Men
See them (the bad mad men) lurking in the background? Please don’t remove the foreground (the bad mad, often angry, women)! So here’s Dan Bishop, production designer for Mad Men, describing (I think in Dwell magazine, as my source seems … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Book/Film Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Advertising, architecture, Architecture Here and There, art, Christopher Hawthorne, Dan Bishop, David Brussat, design, Don Draper, Dwell, Fashion, Froma Harrop, Interior Design, Mad Men, modernism, Style, television, Unhappy Hipsters
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Illustrations for “Paradise Planned” column
Here are illustrations for today’s column, published earlier, called “Garden suburbs as ‘Paradise Planned.’ ” Eventually they will appear with the Journal’s online version of the column as they once did with my old blog, and will be linked weekly … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Book/Film Reviews, Photography, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, Capability Brown, Celebration, classical architecture, David Brussat, David Fishman, Ebenezer Howard, Frederick Law Olmsted, garden suburbs, Jacob Tilove, John Wood the Younger, Kentlands, Leon Krier, Lewis Mumford, Modern Architecture, New Urbanism, Paradise Planned, Planning, Poundbury, Prince Charles, Providence Journal, Raymond Unwin, Robert A.M. Stern, Seaside, traditional architecture
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Column: Garden suburb as “Paradise Planned”
I had planned to take the bus to work on Tuesday morning, lugging the new book “Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City” in my trusty Penguin bag, hauling it in from our house in the suburbs — … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Book/Film Reviews, Preservation
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, Capability Brown, Celebration, classical architecture, David Brussat, David Fishman, Ebenezer Howard, Frederick Law Olmsted, garden suburbs, Jacob Tilove, John Wood the Younger, Kentlands, Lewis Mumford, Modern Architecture, New Urbanism, Paradise Planned, Planning, Poundbury, Prince Charles, Providence Journal, Raymond Unwin, Robert A.M. Stern, Seaside, traditional architecture
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“That was too easy” — Anonymous
I posed a challenge, more or less, in my last blog, “Zaha ‘Ha Ha’ Hadid’s thing.” I wrote, “Even I don’t have the London City Halls to photomontage the People’s Daily into Qatar’s proposed World Cup Stadium, designed by Zaha … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Photography
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, Beijing, David Brussat, Modern Architecture, Penis, People's Daily, Qatar, Stadium, Vagina, Zaha Hadid
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How modernism got square
The title of this post harks back to one from this blog’s Providence Journal days, when I linked to a long piece in Metropolis magazine by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros, and then did a column about it called “How … Continue reading
Zaha “Ha Ha” Hadid’s thing
Even I don’t have the London City Halls to photomontage the People’s Daily into Qatar’s proposed World Cup Stadium, designed by Zaha Hadid. I refer, of course, firstly to Norman Foster’s London City Hall, called the “glass gonad” by London … Continue reading
Column: The ground game against modernism
Little noticed amid last month’s shutdown in Washington was Congress’s shutdown of funding for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission’s proposed modernist monument for the 34th president, designed by Frank Gehry and expected to cost $142 million, mostly in federal tax dollars. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, art, Bruce Cole, Bulfinch Awards, Christine Franck, classical architecture, classicism, David Brussat, design, Eisenhower memorial, Frank Gehry, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Marileny Peralta, modernism
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Column: Buildings scrape the sky’s eye
One World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot-tall “kick-me” sign nearing completion on New York City’s skyline, is 991 feet shy in height of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, which rises 2,717 feet above the Dubai desert. But thanks to … Continue reading
Column: Small future for tall buildings in D.C.
Like much in the District of Columbia, the Hotel Dupont Plaza has undergone change. For one thing, it is now called the Dupont Circle Hotel. But it looks much as when it was completed half a century ago. Beige brick … Continue reading
Architecture Here and There 