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11:54 PM Sat, Feb 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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"Three Classicists" are three classical artists and architects - Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry, the son of Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles's favorite architec - who appear in this video and transform a room, at the Kowalski......
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7:32 AM Thu, Feb 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Left, Philip Trammell Shutze in Rome, circa 1915 (Courtesy of Southeast chapter, ICA & CA). Below: Swann House, from cover of book on Shutze by Georgia Tech's Elizabeth Dowling, in charge of this year's awards program; old shot of......
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9:38 PM Wed, Feb 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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Illustration: The two buildings selected as New York's best by a panel of architects assembled by New York magazine - Grand Central Terminal and the Whitney Museum * * * Clem Labine, editor emeritus of Traditional Building magazine and......
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9:33 PM Tue, Feb 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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Yes, another trip to Atlanta, and another inning for the Classical Nine - by which I mean the ICA & CA - soon doing business under the new name of ... well, tune in on Thursday to read all......
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5:39 PM Sun, Feb 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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Steve Jobs finally won the court battle by which he strove to demolish his old house, a circa-1925 Spanish Colonial Revival in Woodside, Calif., outside of San Francisco. It is pictured at left recently, and below that in better days.......
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7:00 AM Thu, Feb 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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Derisive monikers for the new Granoff Creative Arts Center (CAC), at Brown [This collection does not include entries sent by e-mail before Dec. 2. Those entries have been lost. Readers may resubmit them and they will appear here. New entries......
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7:00 AM Thu, Feb 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, corner detail of the Granoff Creative Arts Center, in Providence (photo by Iwan Baan, courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro). Below, Angell Street facade; facade facing The Walk, another closeup of corner; lobby, with guard and Chira......
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8:10 AM Wed, Feb 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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Wendy Burden, Vanderbilt heiress and author of Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir, writes the following about one of her grandparents' houses (above), designed by William K. Harrison and artist Isamu Noguchi. Its recent renovation is described in a......
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7:03 PM Tue, Feb 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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Is Angell Street beyond repair? No, noplace is beyond repair. Downtown Houston is not beyond repair, though it may be beyond hope of repair. Angell Street has several lovely old Victorian houses gracing the block between Thayer and Brown.......
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11:22 AM Mon, Feb 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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The above photo of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, on Angell Street, ran with the blog request for entries to the derisive-moniker contest on Nov. 4 * * * I have 17 entries, at least, in the......
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9:50 AM Mon, Feb 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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The UK Telegraph reports that construction on Frank "O!" Gehry's "Cloud" project, in Paris, a contemporary art museum to house the collection of France's richest man, has been blocked by a court order. The suit, from a group formed......
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7:28 AM Mon, Feb 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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Two Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, circa 1885, since demolished and apparently neither contain the apartment referred to below * * * After reading the review I got the book, hoping that other gems would be littered among the......
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1:10 PM Sun, Feb 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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Wendy Burden at Vanderbilt estate (not sure which one) * * * From a great review in the Feb. 7 Weekly Standard by Edward Short of what sounds like a great book by Vanderbilt heiress Wendy Burden (Dead End......
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7:45 AM Thu, Feb 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, Christ Church in Lincoln was built after the 1934 original burned in 1883; below, Christ Church on day of vote; Emmanuel Church, in Cumberland; across Tom Whipple Highway from Emmanuel; Christ Church belfry; Christ Church inside; rectory......
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7:01 AM Wed, Feb 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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I commend to readers a set of six ten-minute videos that make up a television program from BBC hosted by Roger Scruton, the philosopher of beauty, who summarizes his thoughts on beauty as it relates to art, architecture, love, sex,......
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10:40 PM Tue, Feb 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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The latest version of Frank Gehry's design for a memorial to President Eisenhower. * * * So what if you are only five years old? I think anyone, literally anyone, could design a better memorial to President Dwight D.......
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10:07 PM Tue, Feb 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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Christ Church, in the old mill village of Lonsdale, part of Lincoln, R.I., is one of those modest but imposing church buildings of yore that you must see to believe. It does not just vault toward heaven but crouches......
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