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Column: There's a 'middle way' in architecture

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Leon Krier sums up the choices facing architecture in the absence of a "middle way." [From "Architecture: Choice or Fate," by Leon Krier (1998)]; below, Frank Gehry's Beekman Tower; proposed U.S. embassy in London; rival proposal by......

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 Tags  April Fool's Day   Architecture   Beekman Tower   Classicism   David Brussat   Frank Gehry   Modernism   Thom Mayne   U.S. Embassy London  

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Coming up: Can't we all just get along, you fools?

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By David Brussat    Email

Weighing in again on the Beekman Tower and the potential for compromise between modernism and tradition in architecture. More about what this implies, and more about whether it is likely. More about whether a change of heart might be in......

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 Tags  Architecture   Beekman Tower   Classicism   David Brussat   Frank Gehry   Modernism   Thom Mayne   U.S. Embassy in London  

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