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Category Archives: Landscape Architecture
Don’t maul the Mall, cont.
The good news out of Washington is that the Fine Arts Commission has expressed reservations about the latest iteration of the Bjarke Ingels Group plan to renovate the Mall near the Smithsonian’s crenelated, betowered headquarters. Good, but not good enough. … Continue reading
Prov’s City Beautiful parks
Catherine Zipf’s piece in today’s Providence Journal, “Bus proposal is appalling,” is dead on. The more you think about it, as Zipf has clearly done, the more difficult it is to imagine a rational reason for the state’s proposal to … Continue reading
Saving the history underfoot
Robin Williams, an architectural historian at the Savannah College of Art & Design, delivered a TED talk to explain “How Historic Street Pavement Modernized the City.” Williams has a pleasant manner that conveys his conviction that historic pavement is a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Historic Pavement, Providence RI, Robin Williams, SCAD, TED talk, Video
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Providence PVDfest today!
We adventured into downtown Providence late this afternoon for PVDfest, the city’s second annual international arts festival (last year’s shindig was the Providence International Arts Festival – deemed too big a mouthful). Day was grayish but without any seeming threat … Continue reading
The Palladio Awards of 2016
The Palladio Awards may not get the attention of the Driehaus Prize, which does not get the attention of the Pritzker Prize. But the Palladios are the first and only national architecture award that recognizes specific traditional projects and their … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Active Interest Media, AIM Media, Architecture Competitions, Arthur Ross Award, Bulfinch Awards, classical architecture, Driehaus Prize, Modern Architecture, Palladio Awards, Pritzker Prize, Stanford White Awards
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See ‘High Rise’ film trailer
Imagine my thrill at learning today that J.G. Ballard’s suspense novel, High-Rise, depicting what can come of the pressures that build up in the compressed psychosis of a modern residential tower, came out as a film in Britain last year, … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning, Video
Tagged Cinema, Froma Harrop, High-Rise, J.G. Ballard, Jeremy Irons, Movie Trailer, Novel, Psychology, silkstocking.nyc, Skyscrapers, Studiocanal, Suspense, UK, Video
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Not the ‘male gaze,’ but …
I know, this may seem to be drilling down more deeply into the sexuality of architecture than most readers of this family blog would like to drill, but I just could not resist. My last post, “Playboy and modernism,” referred … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Video
Tagged Alexandra Staub, Beatriz Colomina, Conflicted Identities, Laugh-In, Le Corbusier, Martha Nussbaum, Modern Architecture, Playboy, Until Money Departs You
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