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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
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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
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Tagged Classical Revival, Construction, James Gamble Rogers, Mockup, New Haven CT, RAMSA, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale University
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TBC symposium in Brooklyn
The latest Traditional Building Conference, next week in Brooklyn, will feature a host of seminars that together emphasize how major traditional projects can influence the evolution of traditional building techniques. The Dec. 5-6 symposium, spanning Tuesday and Wednesday, at Grand … Continue reading
Museum of National Identity
Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a piece on Philadelpia’s new Museum of the American Revolution, by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, back in June that I somehow missed. “An Identity Crisis for American Architecture” cries … Continue reading
New Yale campus progress
Gary Brewer has sent two photographs of the work to date on the two new residential colleges at Yale, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray. They are exquisite, to quote Elizabeth Moule’s assessment in an email to the TradArch listserv. Also … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin College, Gary Brewer, Pauli Murray College, RAMSA, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale, Yale Expansion
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Philly’s new revo museum
Got a nice mailing the other day from RAMSA – that is, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Bob Stern’s firm, in New York City. Open the flyer and a photo on two flaps emerges of the Museum of the American Revolution, … Continue reading
Lovely rough-hewn brick
Beauty is not always symmetrical, or smooth or polished. Neither is nature. Some of the most beautiful buildings have a sort of rough-hewn quality, often provided gratis over the years by time and weather. The matter came up yesterday when … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Brick, Brutalism, Gary Brewer, Nelson Fitness Center, Old Architecture, Rafael Moneo, RAMSA, RISD Museum of Art
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