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Carl Laubin wins Reed award
The British-American painter Carl Laubin specializes in classical buildings assembled en masse on canvas. I first came face to face with one of his works at the celebration, in 2013, of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for architect Thomas Beeby … Continue reading
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
Why 15 CPW makes moola
“Why Copies of 15 Central Park West Are Taking Over Manhattan,” by James Tarmy in Bloomberg Businessweek, exaggerates the phenomenon of a “takeover” and doesn’t even answer his own question. The answer is obvious: 15 Central Park West, designed by … 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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Trads must step up game
While channel hopping a couple weeks ago, just before Christmas, I landed on C-Span and discovered to my horror I was watching a live broadcast of the groundbreaking for Frank Gehry’s memorial to Frank Gehry – oops, I mean Dwight … Continue reading
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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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
The old new Nave at Yale
The Nave, as the entrance hall of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale has long been known, was meticulously restored by Helpern Architects in 2014, revealing forgotten glories in the stonework by the original architect, James Gamble Rogers. I visited … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation, Uncategorized
Tagged Brown University, David Dunlop, Helpern Architects, ICAA, James Gamble Rogers, Joan Capelin, Jonathan Nelson, Mark Alden Branch, Michael Tyrrell, New York Times, Robert A.M. Stern, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, Yale Alumni Magazine
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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
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Benjamin Franklin College, Gary Brewer, Pauli Murray College, RAMSA, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale, Yale Expansion
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Duo vs. the “style wars”
Architect and commentator Duo Dickinson spends nine-tenths of his essay “Does the New Traditionalism Have a Point?,” on the website Common|Edge, describing new traditional architecture as if it were a recent novelty, a niche phenomenon worthy of a look but … Continue reading
