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Tag Archives: YouTube
Video: Restored in Frankfurt
Leon Krier has sent a brief video, 57 seconds in all, of the recently completed restoration, in Frankfurt, Germany, of that city’s Huhner Markt area, Almost as pleasing as what the video reveals is what it replaces – in Krier’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Video
Tagged Frankfurt, Germany, Huhner Markt, Restoration, Video, YouTube
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New York then and now
Yesterday I posted a series of film clips shot between 1896 and 1905, and urged readers familiar with the city to use the tools supplied with the video to imagine what those places look like today. Well, a reader, Barry … Continue reading
Minutes in lovely Malta
When I feel like writing a post but don’t have much time I fly to YouTube and its endless city videos. Today, Valletta, the capital of Malta, the island nation just south of Sicily. I visited in the late 1990s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Knights Hospitaller, Malta, Ottoman Empire, Siege of Malta, Suleiman the Magnificent, Valletta, YouTube
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“Sorry ’bout me building!”
[This post goes onto my blog but not out to my blog send list recipients until my email server quits intercepting my bulk posts under the suspicion that they are spam. I am sorry to say that for the time … Continue reading
Shostakovich in Leningrad
I just read a passage so astonishing about Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 (“The Leningrad Symphony”) that I must pass it along. It is about how the Soviets got a score for the newly written music to Leningrad during the siege. … Continue reading
Amazing: N.Y. in 1896-1905
I didn’t even know they had movies that far back, but here are film clips of New York City in the decade that straddles the turn of the 19th Century. Said to be the oldest surviving film of the Big … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Blast from past, Photography, Urbanism and planning
Tagged 1900, New York City, Video, Yestervid, YouTube
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FLW on Corbu – Let’s you and him fight!
Here’s Frank Lloyd Wright taking a poke at Le Corbusier. Much fun, with the Great Man’s insecurities, if that is what they were, exposed. But still no cape. Maybe Corbu swiped it. Here’s the vid on YouTube. Hey, what’s Ludwig … Continue reading