Architecture Here and There
· Headlines · 25 words · Photos · Tag cloud · Comments · RSS · MultiBlog

February 14, 2010 - February 20, 2010 Archives

« February 7, 2010 - February 13, 2010 | Front page | Archives | February 21, 2010 - February 27, 2010 »

Column: The hypocrisy of additions, old and new

chicagolaw.jpg 8:02 AM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: The addition to the John Carter Brown Library, in Providence, is on the right; below, RISD Museum of Art, in Providence; the Guggenheim Museum, in New York; Dulles International Airport, in Virginia; the University of Chicago law library.......

>> Continue reading Column: The hypocrisy of additions, old and new

 Tags  Additions   Architecture   Future of the Past   Preservation   Providence RI   Steven Semes  

social bookmarking

Predicted (and predictable) failures of Olympic legacy

londonolympic.jpg 12:43 PM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

The failure of the ballyhooed physical remains of Olympics past to help regenerate their communities has been widely documented. Here's an essay in BDonline about the Olypmic future - a new report predicts that the new architecture for the 2012......

>> Continue reading Predicted (and predictable) failures of Olympic legacy

 Tags  Architecture   BDonline   London   Olympics   Zaha Hadid  

social bookmarking

An architecture critic edges slowly toward sanity

libeskind.jpg 12:31 PM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

This piece by Simon Heffer in the UK Telegraph voices concern at some of the terrible buildings designed of late. He takes particular exception to Daniel Libeskind's vile addition to the Dresden Military History Museum. Although Heffer is still......

>> Continue reading An architecture critic edges slowly toward sanity

 Tags  Addition   Architecture   Dresden   Libeskind   Simon Heffer   UK Telegraph  

social bookmarking

Coming up: Additions don't add up

chicagolaw.jpg 9:03 AM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

In preparing to write tomorrow's column on additions, I solicited from members of the TradArch list examples of modernist buildings with additions in the same modernist style, and of modernist buildings with additions in a traditional style. The above......

>> Continue reading Coming up: Additions don't add up

 Tags  Additions   Architecture   Dulles   Frank Lloyd Wright   Guggenheim   Modernism   Saarinen  

social bookmarking