-
Recent Comments
Tag Archives: Demolition
TB on Fogarty’s demise
Here is my Traditional Building blog post from a couple months ago, around the time some ardent local preservationists held a funeral for the John C. Fo- garty Memorial Building, soon after its demolition began. Soon after that its demolition … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Providence, Video
Tagged Brutalist Architecture, Demolition, Fogarty Building, Providence RI, Traditional Building, Video
Leave a comment
GoLocal’s buildings to demo
In the wake of the decline and fall of the Fogarty Building, in Providence, GoLocalProv.com ran an important list: “Providence’s Fogarty Building Demolished, What Other Buildings Should Go?” It includes a slide show featuring a set of buildings that should … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Demolition, Development, Fogarty Building, GoLocalProv.com, Modern Architecture, Nate Storring, Providence RI
3 Comments
First kill all the bureaucrats
Let’s see if I have this correct: The 110-year-old Christ Church on West 36th Street, in Manhattan’s Garment District, was purchased by a developer who wanted to save the facade to be incorporated into the design of a new hotel. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged Christ Church, Demolition, New York, New York Post, Sam Chang, Steve Cuozzo
2 Comments
The vandals own the gates
Here is sad news from sculptor Walter Arnold, who reports on an act of vandalism in Chicago. He writes: Eric J. Nordstrom continues documenting the destruction of the Charles Sumner Frost-designed Public Life Insurance Building in Chicago. He took this … Continue reading
Your best lost building here!
The other day I received an email from Edward Mack, an editor at The History Press, an imprint of Arcadia Publishing. You all know their books. The regional literature shelves of your local bookstore are struggling even now under the … Continue reading
Met, NYPL dodge ’40s bullet
A surprising revelation in an interesting paragraph from Michael Gross’s history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogues’ Gallery: [NYC parks commissioner and Met board member] Robert Moses’s first impression of the new director [Francis Henry Taylor, 1940-55] was changing. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged art, Demolition, Francis Henry Taylor, Merger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gross, Museums, New York Public Library, Robert Moses, Rogues' Gallery
Leave a comment
“Clock ticking” for brutality?
So says the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman in “Clock Ticks for Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center.” By the time you read this, the bye-bye birdie may well have chirped its demise. I had not realized that demolition was still … Continue reading
A city’s steepled horizon
Shot these photos after penning a strategy for the beautification of Providence that ran last Monday, Nov. 10, at GoLocalProv.com (where I now do a weekly column). The basic thrust of the plan requires the demolition of the city’s 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Photography, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged College Hill, Demolition, GoLocalProv, Providence RI
Leave a comment
Column: “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station”
Before Pennsylvania Station opened in 1910, travelers headed for New York on the Pennsylvania Railroad, owned by the largest company in the world, had to debark in New Jersey and cross the Hudson River by ferry to Manhattan. It’s hard … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Book/Film Reviews, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Alexander Cassatt, architecture, Architecture Here and There, Charles Follen McKim, classical architecture, Conquering Gotham, David Brussat, Demolition, engineering, Jill Jonnes, McKim Mead & White, Modern Architecture, New York, Norman McGrath, PBS, Penn Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Station, Preservation, Randall MacLowery, The Rise and Fall of Penn Station, Tunnel, WGBH
Leave a comment
