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Tag Archives: Paris
Save the Chartres Cathedral
In my 2014 blog post “Change at Chartres” I discussed New York Review of Books critic Martin Filler’s “Scandalous Makeover at Chartres,” a critique of the interior restoration work at the famous cathedral about 60 miles to the southwest of … Continue reading
Europe as museum for rich?
The late Walter Laqueur, who died last week after a long career cataloguing the sins of communism, terrorism and the Holocaust, was quoted in his New York Times obituary asserting that the “possibility that Europe will become a museum or … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Bistros, Cities, Fane Toiwer, Modern Architecture, New York Times, Paris, Providence, Roger Scruton, Sam Roberts, Urbanism, Venice, Walking, Walter Laqueur
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Update: Vandals versus Paris
Mary Campbell Gallagher, founder and president of the International Coalition for the Preservation of Paris and U.S. liaison to SOS Paris, has issued a shot over the bow of the vandals at the city’s gates. Her shot, in the form … Continue reading
Fane tower versus beauty
Charles Denby is a Barrington doctor who has allied himself with the push for more art and sculpture in Providence. He doesn’t see why Providence should not have some major iconic work of art such as The Little Mermaid in … Continue reading
Berlinski: Sacking of Paris
Claire Berlinski’s masterful summary of the sad situation in Paris is out in the latest City Journal under the title, “The Architectural Sacking of Paris.” I am looking also for Joe Queenan’s no doubt hilarious essay “London Beats Paris in … Continue reading
Driehaus for the Breitmans
The annual Driehaus Prize, named for Chicago philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus and administered by the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, recognizes the career of work in the classical style by living architects. It has been handed … Continue reading
Gallagher: “If Venice Dies”
Mary Campbell Gallagher, founder of the International Coalition for the Preservation of Paris, has written a review of Salvadore Settis’s If Venice Dies for The New Criterion. Here is a direct link to her fine review, elegantly titled “La Serenissima” … Continue reading
Taking the plunge in Paris
If you have scratched your head at what looks like civic suicide in Paris, manifested by a desire to attack its beauty, an essay by Stephane Kirkland, “Paris in the Twenty-First Century,” might prove interesting. It appears that Parisian modernists, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Grand Paris, Haussmann, Mary Campbell Gallagher, Modern Architecture, Paris, Reinvent Paris, SOS Paris, Stephane Kirkland
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Riding by versus looking at
Yesterday I posted a couple of quotes from Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. Of a taxi ride down the Boulevard Raspail, the author has his protagonist muse: “It is a street I do not mind walking down at all. But … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Alistair Horne, Haussmann, Hemingway, Le Corbusier, Paris, Streets
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