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Tag Archives: RAMSA
Bob Stern and Bill Brussat
A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention, which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). That has inhabited my … Continue reading
Best trad buildings of 2021
This year’s meagre selection of new buildings designed in traditional styles came close to cancellation, not the first event to suffer that fate lately. It is depressing this year, as it was last year, to contemplate the listlessness of the … Continue reading
Best trad buildings of 2020
Two weeks before President Trump signed his executive order calling for federal buildings to be designed in traditional styles, his wife, the first lady, Melania, announced the completion of a tennis pavilion on the White House grounds designed with the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Buff Chace, Cornish Associates, Providenced RI, RAMSA, Steven Spandle, White House Tennis Pavilion
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Museum of National Identity
A few days ago I wrote “Life preserver for Inga Saffron,” in which I deplored the “loose thinking” of Saffron and other architecture critics. I described that thinking in the following post, “Museum of National Identity,” from November 2017. *** … Continue reading
Best trad buildings of 2018
Vanderbilt University has embarked upon a multi-year building program in which, so far as I can tell, relatively staid traditional dormitories constructed between the 1950s and the ’70s are being replaced by residential colleges (as such facilities are increasingly known … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged 135 E. 79th St. NYC, Charleston, Courier Square, Duncan Stroik, Hartman-Cox, Knoxville Cathedral, Mobile AL Courthouse, Nashville, New Traditional Architecture, RAMSA, Stonehill College Dorms, Studio Sofield, Tampa Chapelle, Vanderbilt, Villanova Pedestrian Bridge
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Hewitt on Yale’s new colleges
Yale University’s two new academic residences have received much praise (and much of its opposite) from critics, and its designers at Robert A.M. Stern Architects have won a host of architectural awards from organizations that favor traditional design. Classical architect … Continue reading
Partying with the Bulfinches
On Saturday evening the region’s classicists held a big bash at the Harvard Club of Boston, after two lectures by eminent classicists that morning and afternoon. The lectures will soon go onto the website of the New England chapter of … Continue reading
Fit Brown’s hall into the Hill
Brown University pleased many by rethinking its plan to demolish four old buildings on its campus to make way for an ugly concert hall. Now it plans to build an ugly concert hall without demolishing any old buildings. The surprising … Continue reading
Stern’s 250 W81st tops out
Robert A. M. Stern’s latest Manhattan apartment building at 250 West 81st St., on a corner of Broadway, recently topped out. That means the top of the building’s steel structure of girders has been achieved. It is 209 feet tall, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Uncategorized
Tagged 250 West 81st, New York, Penn Station, RAMSA, Rebuild Penn Station, Robert A.M. Stern
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Unmocking mockup at Yale
The other day the U.S. Mail produced for me a gift from RAMSA – Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The New Residential Colleges at Yale: A Conversation Across Time came with an inscription to me from the great architect himself: “To … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Classical Revival, Construction, James Gamble Rogers, Mockup, New Haven CT, RAMSA, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale University
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