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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
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
Ugly by accident or design?
Christopher Woodward, the director of London’s Garden Museum, wrote “Why Are So Many New Buildings Ugly?” for its website. He had read British critic Stephen Bayley’s 2013 book Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything, and describes an exchange Bayley had with … Continue reading
Yale’s ‘edifice complex’?
Hartford Courant architecture critic Duo Dickinson has written a fine piece on Yale’s two new residential colleges, under construction in New Haven. Yale’s expenditure of more than half a billion (b) to recapture the work of architect James Gamble Rogers’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Alumni Donations, Duo Dickinson, James Gamble Rogers, New Haven, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale
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Ross Award laureates, 2016
This year’s winners of the Arthur Ross Awards have been announced by their sponsor, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The institute is the leading organization in the United States fostering classical and traditional architecture and its allied arts: … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Development, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Other countries, Photography, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Anne Day, Architectural Record, Arthur Ross Awards, Cayala Guatemala, Classical America, classical architecture, Duncan Stroik, Henry Hope Reed, Robert A.M. Stern, SCAD Savannah, Vitruvius
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6th annual Bulfinch winners
The New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art has announced this year’s winners of its Bulfinch Awards, which honor work in classical architecture, urbanism and allied arts. This year for the first time the chapter invited … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulfinch Awards, Charles Bulfinch, ICAA, Instituter of Classical Architecture & Art, Jonathan Nelson, New England Chapter, RAMSA, Robert A.M. Stern
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Save the Four Seasons!
The owners of the famous Four Seasons restaurant in the famous Seagram Building want to renovate its Pool Room. No less an eminento than Robert A.M. Stern, America’s only classical starchitect, writes to defend its modern design. His piece is … Continue reading
Tennis in Newport, anyone?
Here is an illustration of the proposed addition to the Tennis Hall of Fame, in Newport, which includes the famous Casino designed by McKim, Mead & White back in the 1880s. The groundbreaking is tomorrow, Wednesday, at 12:30, and after … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Rhode Island
Tagged Casino, Gary Brewer, McKim Mead & White, Newport, Robert A.M. Stern, Tennis Hall of Fame
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